Fitnosophy - Why Building your Body to Realise your Self

Why Building your Body to Realise your Self?

Physical Strength

As F.W. Nietzsche wrote in 1888,

‘what does not kill me makes me stronger’ (Twilight of the Idols, ‘Maxims and Arrows’ §8).

The maximal or near maximal stimulus you increasingly expose your muscles to (e.g. what nearly kills you), is what creates mechanical, metabolic, and neuromuscular adaptations that elicit MUSCLE GROWTH and STRENGTH GAINS (training principle of progressive overload).

Mental Strength

Constantly exposing your body to intense stimuli also teaches the mind how to be determined to achieve a goal, and how to stick to a plan and make the needed sacrifices to pursuit a purpose. Therefore, PHYSICAL STRENGTH also shapes MENTAL STRENGTH.

By the side of gaining strength, also other elements more traditionally associated with bodybuilding forge mental strength. Some of these elements are: constantly basing your food choices around massing and cutting phases; clean eating; alcohol restriction or abstinence; prioritising sleep; paying attention to details and making all the required sacrifices in order to bring out your best body parts while improving your lagging ones; posing; taking progress pictures and weekly check-ins; etc.

Emotional Strength

When you retrospectively think of all the effort you have put into your goal, all the difficulties you have overcome, all the setbacks you have faced, and how far you have come with your journey, you also realise that this journey has made you more resilient, namely, it has given you EMOTIONAL STRENGTH.

Physical, mental, and emotional strength are inextricably intertwined, and are all part of the process of personal growth that will eventually lead you to becoming who you are.

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