So today I was reading an article that made the statement that core training is over rated, and worse yet, you could get a boo boo doing so.

Over analyzing? Trusting a study that is relegated to funding and filling a curriculum requirement is not what we need to base an outcome of truth on, let alone our bodies.  Magazines like this rotate and refurbish the same parroted info time and again, so no big surprise that they would put out something as horrifically unconscious and stupid as oooooooooh say that to have a strong and flexible midsection could be bad for you even cause problems.

Also, their primary assessment was: it doesn’t make you better at your sport.

What the F-*&-K?  It did not improve your/their ability to reach a high level of skills, according to the “isolated” study done.

Well, H-LL, why would it?  We are talking about two distinctly different things here.  Conditioning vs. talent in a given sport.  Tomato / Potato.

You can become physically fit as F—K!  Anyone can – I said ANYONE!  But the talent to do a thing such as connect with a 90 mile an hour fastball is a whole different planet.

Let us not forget that we are talking about studies, and as such, it’s important to realize that they are ever changing and ever elusive in their real direction of what they are trying to achieve.  Boys and girls, the winner funding lots and lots of $$$$$.

Yeah, nothing like college tenure, right?

I know what you want to say to me – I do, really.  You want to say how did I learn all the things I know now smart ass writer guy!  Good point.

This is the question you should ask about everything you read.  I do.  And that is: Who or what is this trying to accomplish? Or why?

There are, of course, studies that are recurrent and consistent and you learn over time by doing your own homework on the matter of health and/or fitness.  You see a consistent curve of truth in all things studied, like what’s good to go and what is not, but all too often the average wannabe athletes tend to make a religion out of some of these things.

No Carbs!! or Only carbs!!! Sleep upside down.  Only sleep every other year.  Use other people’s blood (ick). Hot Yoga.  Cold bodybuilding. Reverse Tennis rackets.  Jogging globes.  Elf juggling.

The need to be the best is not a realistic truth.  Possibly you can be your own best but that’s it.  You can use other masters and teachers as benchmarks to accomplishments.  But to try and be Jet Lee is F-ing weird (and identity fraud, I think).  You can’t be and you shouldn’t be!  And by the way, the reason you like Jet Lee is he never tried to be you or me.  He just got off on his own journey, finding his own path, and studied and trained because he loved it.  It drove him.  Nobody at Thai Bo class gave him a belt.  Get it??

Commonsense is the magic bullet.

For example, putting a helmet on and slamming your head into a tree to strengthen your neck muscle… studies show you are a F—KNUT.

But doing pushups at various angles can create a balanced and ongoing progress of consistent and stable growth.  Duh!

Look , for some reason, we all wanna be the best at something.  It’s in the DNA for real.  Studies show!

But as we seek this info and that info, or join our righteous spots on our own oh so special sport(s) that saving the environment and feeding the children and are making you young and beautiful in subtlest of ways even making you better than every other piece of toxic debrie on the planet.  So where did I put that breast cancer ribbon from the walk-a-thon?

We lose our real Selves.  That real self is one that maybe does not care if they’re down hill time is a nano second better than that Austrian chick that looks suspiciously like a guy.  Don’t look!

Where does it end?? It does not.  It is a race you cannot win.  Ever.  There is no valid point to think that there is a magic trick or workout to being the uber best.  But Mr. Toxic ego’s got you by the short and curlies, and unless you start to re-evaluate your choices and your own desire for … the reason, you will in fact be constantly pissed off, constantly hurt, in over your head, and wasting your limited time on the planet.  In short, you will belong to a gym.

Why?  Just keep asking why and you will come to being your own best trainer, not someone else’s lab experiment of fit’n fabulous.  I use all information and all the education I can find and then I will adjust things accordingly in my workouts and if things hurt in a bad way, I stop and find another path.  But if you belong to one of those cults I was referring to, they will – egos will – do their best to make themselves the authorities when you hear their words, you should immediately think to yourself:  Run away or hobble away, depending upon well you’ve been able to ignore them.

Their vitriol is poisen.  It is myopic at best.  The yardstick for what’s correct for you is a simple one.    Ask yourself does this feel good?  Do I like doing it?  Does it seem to improve my overall health?  If so, you gots yourself a winner.  Ignore Betty and Bobby Spandex.  They will only sever themselves.  Not you.

So you would think that after 28 years of reading this ever-changing landscape of fresh poop, I would let it pass by… NOT!

The big problem here is this is dangerous to weekend wanna be’s.  They believe this crap.  They believe these mags for all their worth.  Yes, sometimes there is substantial info to be had, but – and it’s a big but – you are not listening to your body or your intuitive commonsense of what’s OK for you.

And that is where I believe everybody takes a dump in their panties, self-trust.  It’s not a mysterious thing.  It’s a learned thing.  Trust your feelings, does it feel right?  Or is your body not responding?  The lines blur because your ego tells you that you should do it anyway, and you listen because that little hottie in the yoga pants doing a perfect down dog over there does it this way, and she looks awesome, so hell, shut up and do it!

On behalf of ER rooms everywhere, thank you.  Your ego has helped you to actually go the opposite way to being healthy.  Busting up your body has no future and really, why are you doing this?  Once you establish honestly why you think you need to consume your days with your body weight in pills and pain and endless training techniques that only lead to more mindless techniques – why? Why?

Look we all lose sight.  We all get lost in the busy work of doing stuff.  Stuff and the doing of it makes us feel like we are accomplishing… stuff.  But what is that stuff?  More importantly, what is that stuff for you?   Go back to the reason for the article.  Studies show…

You, my friends are free.  Free to learn and study and exercise all on your own.  So do it.  There is no authority on the health of you.  Your health a natural thing what your ego does with it is probably a whole other matter.

Think about what you want because trusting a bunch of dysfunctional and frustrated professors and their lust for their own religion of grant money is dangerous business.  Count on you not them when you read something that just sounds too F-&%$#king stupid to be good or correct.  You’re most likely right.

Hanzo has left the building.