It Starts With A Pinch: Picking Stuff Up: And Bruce Lee On Technique

Once eliminated exercises become amputated limbs.

It starts with a pinch. Something small. Something new. Just enough to make us pay attention.

Next comes the big decision: Do we push into the pinch or back off?

Many stop at the slightest discomfort, switch gears, and search for something else. Something that soothes the ego but does nothing for the body.

But quitting is accumulative. And the more we quit when something feels odd, the more ground we lose.

Justification follows. I’m fine with never jumping and running again, begets I’m fine, never squatting and bending, begets I’m okay with never walking.

It seems extreme, but Truth with a big T often does. Once eliminated exercises become amputated limbs.

What started as a bit of foot pain becomes no more lunges. No more lunges becomes no more steps. No more steps becomes no more hikes. No more hikes becomes no more stadium stairs…