Last summer, I wrote an article in the newspaper "Fitness is no longer my tool to solve life problems". ",record the experience of fitness for fifteen months.
At the end, I wrote:
"My fitness time is too short, and many things are still too shallow. Having said so much is my subjective feeling of inexperience. I wrote this article just to record the present, and I don't know what the similarities and differences will be in the future.
"In short, fitness is no longer a tool to solve life problems for me at present, it has become a life attitude."
Now that five months have passed, maybe it's time to update it.
As I wrote before, fitness is still not a "persistent" thing for me.
The so-called "persistence" is a task that needs "perseverance" as energy and constantly supplements and executes. For the same thing, "perseverance" is a consumable, and this process is accelerated.
Fitness is not like mechanical persistence with a bucket of water-after a certain node, it will become a habit-if you are lucky enough to cross this node when your perseverance is exhausted, there is no need for so-called "persistence".
Not much different from the previous fifteen months. "Going to the gym" is still my subconscious habitual initiative.
It is still as common as reading, studying, practicing the piano, writing and even eating, drinking and sleeping, and it is an indispensable part of my life.
"Before investing in other things, I will consider whether these' essential ingredients' will be compressed. I am willing to protect them at the expense of giving up other opportunities, not the other way around. "
In the past five months, I have accumulated more experience. During this period, I also participated in the training and obtained the national fitness coach professional qualification certificate. I learned more systematic training, and my muscle lines are fuller than before. In the sense and control of muscle strength, I have made more remarkable progress, and I have a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of my sports ability and physical state, and I have more keen insight and control.
Has there been any change since fitness? Many people ask me this question.
The figure curve will become better, the body resistance will become stronger, and the energy may be more abundant every day. Oh, yes, it wastes an hour every day. That's about it. It's gone.
Fitness won't make you more self-disciplined and excellent immediately, won't make you really escape from the pain in life, won't make you find someone right away, won't make you have a healthy physique, and won't make you superior just because you can say Levi Beibei.
This is what I have learned in the past few months.
Why?
I have met too many people with superiority since I came into contact with fitness.
I've seen people who growl all kinds of English swear words every day when they do an action in the gym, and their pronunciation is not standard. I wonder how they control their breathing when they exert their strength.
I have seen dumbbells thrown on the ground, and the quality is no different from high-speed burning the midnight oil to hit the high beam;
I have seen friends who don't send other selfies, but punch in new fitness equipment and chicken soup every day, and keep moving forward in self-moving;
I've seen people who think they practice well and have no training traces all day long: "It's so heavy when rowing (pulling back)." Once, I saw a huge body fat monster say this to a novice at the gym. The former gave a strange disdainful smile.
I have seen people who put fitness first, so that they turn a blind eye to life-they don't care about their families, neglect their partners, neglect their studies, and are slow, but they never associate their actions with the word "decadence";
I have also met a staunch believer, who combines these characteristics and thinks he is a bodybuilder, and I am proud of it.
Why bother?
As I said, when fitness becomes a habit, it is as indispensable as reading, studying, practicing the piano, writing and even eating, drinking and sleeping.
But this is just an ordinary part.
Just like there may not be a golden house in the book, Yan Ruyu, lifelong learning may not make you reach the peak of your life. From practicing piano to adulthood, liking classical music may not make you more elegant, and insisting on writing will not make your ideological realm suddenly improve-fitness is not the reason for you to gain superiority. The reason is the same.
I talked to Teacher Gong about it that night.
He said that a fitness blogger sent a contribution, and a girl said that her boyfriend worked out all day, doing nothing and shouting Ye Bati every day.
"What does this mean? This kind of fitness is completely meaningless. " He said.
"Fitness is for health, exercise self-will, and make yourself a better self in the post."
"hmm."
"It's like the so-called fitness looks down on those sloppy, slovenly and greasy middle-aged people. However, in fact, the progress of our life now is spelled out by these greasy middle-aged uncles. "
"If you don't contribute to the collective, how can you enjoy the benefits brought by the collective?"
"Probably I have never seen the superiority of the world." I said.
Last semester, I exchanged abroad for three months, and also experienced three months in the school gymnasium of UCD.
I have to admit that there is still a big gap in the progress of fitness development at home and abroad.
Not to mention the figure and muscle lines I saw in the gym there-indeed, much higher than the domestic average-what impressed me more was the mature fitness atmosphere.
After the equipment is used up, everyone will clean the used place with disinfectant and rag next to it; No one has misplaced the instrument, and it will be put back when it is used up; No one will shout loudly every time he does an action; No one occupies the device to chat, or buckles the mobile phone; No one occupies the same instrument for a long time; There are many people who train alone; Through the ten squats on the first floor of the gym, there will always be a neat waiting line next to it.
Everyone knows the basic rules of training. "Excuse me, how many sets do you have? How many groups do you have? ) "and" Thank you. " Are the two most commonly used sentences.
There, I met a little sister who squatted 100 kilograms, a little sister who lifted 60 kilograms, a 40-kilogram pull-up group, and a great god who could play games directly.
However, almost no one's face is written with superiority.
Maybe it's because of the habit of being influenced by general educational concepts since childhood, maybe it's because I'm used to taking fitness as a dull lifestyle as my daily life, or maybe I have long known that there are mountains outside people.
They train in the iron gym, just like coming to the library to study every day-they just do what they should do silently.
From the beginning of contact with fitness, I saw all kinds of strange phenomena around me, and I began to wonder: Where did the superiority of fitness come from?
I also wrote an article on my blog the year before last, The Arms Race of Olympic Athletes.
The reason is that I watched Nietzsche's Zarathustra, so I always associate Nietzsche's superman-the last man image with the Olympic athletes in our gym.
"Up to now, all living things have created something beyond themselves; And do you want to be an obstacle to the appreciation of this big wave and return to the times instead of surpassing mankind? What are apes to humans? A laughing stock or painful shame. "
"Humans are also like Superman."
In his other book, The Will of Power, Nietzsche also borrowed an imaginary alliance to express similar ideas:
"The alliance of races and nations, a kind of aristocratic rule based on strict self-discipline, including the will of philosophy kings and artist monarchs, will exist from generation to generation ... taking democracy as a soft tool to master the fate of the earth, thus becoming an artist living above' people'."
Nietzsche has always advocated hierarchy, believing that the future society will inevitably be controlled by a stricter hierarchy.
In short, he used an imaginary "higher form of human existence" to describe the operation mode of this society-"Superman" took "the last man" as a ruling tool by virtue of its unquestionable hierarchical status, and a few people controlled the fate of the majority.
1996 During the Atlanta Olympic Games, in a group of advertisements sponsored by a European communication spoiler company, a group of well-built and muscular athletes showed extraordinary sports skills, such as running up the side wall of a building, jumping off a cliff and jumping off the roof of a magical building.
The focus is on the subtitle that flashed at the end of the advertisement: "Free".
Like Renee? The screen image created by Riefenstahl (1938 Berlin Olympic documentary "Olympia") suggests that Nietzsche's superhuman existence can transcend the shackles of secular moral rules.
This cultural theme encourages individuals to liberate themselves from useless and oppressive social bondage-breaking the rules and gaining freedom.
but ...
"I have been thinking about this problem since a long time ago." Teacher Gong went on to say, "Is strength external or internal?"
"Because of fitness, with a strong body, I am fearless. So, maybe, without this muscle, nothing? "
"External exercise has some internal implications. But now I think that the external stimulus is one kind, but more importantly, the emergence of power should erupt from the heart ... the inner spiritual power is extremely powerful. "
"What is the inner strength? What do you think? " I asked.
"Will ... it's like watching Zi Zhi Tong Jian and An Shi Rebellion when I was a child. It was very difficult for defenders everywhere at that time. Some generals were sawed alive by the enemy with saws, but the generals did not beg for mercy, laughing and cursing, and were tortured. "
"Or more recently, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period of the Republic of China. Captured leaders and generals went to prison calmly, no matter how cruel they were described, they did not compromise. Some can make people tremble. "
"Or, to resist US aggression and aid Korea. The U.S. military still doesn't understand why it can't win, why the top of the mountain is blown flat, why many soldiers in underground caves feed themselves with a radish, and so on. They also have * * * in common, take responsibility, hope, or honor and so on ... "
I remember in "Kill Bill", the last conversation between Bill and Kiddo, Bill used Superman's introduction in Marvel comics to judge Kiddo:
I said you were a killer. Born killer. You have always been and always will be. Moved to El Paso, worked in a second-hand record store, went to the movies with Tommy and cut coupons. ?
That's you, trying to disguise yourself as a worker bee. That's you trying to blend in with the hive. But you are not a worker bee. You are a renegade killer bees. ?
No matter how much beer you drink, how much barbecue you eat, or how fat your ass becomes, nothing in the world can change this.
What Bill wants to tell sis is that her ID is a killer, which she can't change. She can remain anonymous, be a husband and a daughter, and try the life of ordinary people, but in her mind, the nature of the killer will not change.
When I painted this film three times, I couldn't help thinking about this question: what kind of change is the essential change? How many people mistake external changes for essential changes?
I came up with a theory myself some time ago. A sentence that I have heard too much in recent years:
"excellent"
Sometimes it is said to me, sometimes it is not, sometimes it is heartfelt admiration, and sometimes it is superficial.
About this word, I thought about it, probably divided into several stages.
Many people are in the first stage. They are trying to cultivate good habits, but they won't last long. However, every time they implement it, they will give themselves an inexplicable sense of superiority, as if they have become excellent through intermittent implementation.
In the second stage, they can persist. But after all, habits are just habits and lifestyles.
People in the third stage have several unforgettable experiences, perhaps remembering the years of struggle in the future, perhaps seeing the scenery in the abyss of despair, and perhaps telling life stories to future generations when they are old.
The symbol of reaching the fourth stage is probably to do a few remarkable things-perhaps to develop a drug, create a brand, set up a company, build a school and write a work.
People in the fifth stage may already feel a little daunting-they seem to know everything and have extraordinary learning ability. They can be seen in many seemingly unrelated fields, and they are outstanding people with multiple identities.
In the sixth stage, their Excellence does not need anyone or anything to prove. He is a logo himself.
In the last stage, history remembered them.
Having said so many seemingly innocuous summaries, I just want to make it clear that most people, including myself, are in the first or second stage and have nothing to be proud of. The sense of superiority brought by living habits is boring.
In fact, writing this part is also out of self-reflection.
In the summer vacation article, I wrote a passage like this:
Over time, the whole person's concept will be changed by what he "insists on" because of his habits.
For example, if I ever saw a big man with clear muscle lines, I would only be in awe. But a few days ago, I talked to a senior C who has been exercising for many years about fitness. We both agreed that "having training marks is simply the basic principle of dealing with people."
I admit that when I have tasted the sweetness in a certain field and made a little progress, I can't help feeling complacent and feel the so-called "superiority".
Now it seems that the idea at that time was narrow and extreme.
"I once said that I want to repay the tolerance of the society with a tolerant attitude. I often think that we should be self-disciplined now: if we want others to tolerate and understand our opinions, we must first formulate a scale that can tolerate and understand others' opinions. "
"At least, at least, we should avoid' taking what we advocate as absolute things'. Those of us who have been trained in experimentalism never admit that there is' absolute correctness', let alone' taking what we stand for as absolute correctness'. "
Shame.
Hu Shi's concept of "tolerance and freedom" has always been highly respected. How can I forget here?
It is said that the development of domestic fitness industry started late and is immature. As a result, many people don't understand fitness, lack common sense and cognition, and generally don't accept the aesthetics of bodybuilding. The public is also full of contempt and malice for fitness. Even Weibo, a fitness blogger, was labeled as "spreading pornography" by the webmaster some time ago, which caused quite a storm.
However, such "immaturity" is probably not only manifested in public opinion outside the fitness industry, but also exists in the industry. Such as this sense of superiority, especially as an amateur.
Everyone's life choice, identity, occupation and personal experience are not high or low, and when these things are regarded as the so-called "yardstick", they are far from enough to act as a show-off capital, just a common hobby.
Don't promote yourself to superiority by doing what you like, just like, don't interpret others doing what they like as showing superiority.
Fitness is like this, and so are other things.
Above.