Physical Intelligence - Day 66

This time last year I was writing about the value of order and structure and the blog turned out to be a tribute to Ali Anani.  Order and structure come with the paradox of dealing with uncertainty and disruption.  It is the difference between farmland and the wilderness, and as much as I love reading about pioneer stories and people who engaged risk head on, I am not really a fan of the wilderness and actually prefer the safety, warmth and foundation of living in a good home.

Physical order as a physical intelligence is not about putting square pegs into round holes but acknowledging the right fit for physical order.   The problem with a structured environment is that we can either put nothing but faith in the structure or we become set in our ways and thus become slaves of our own rituals.  In physical fitness the structured approach helps isolate physical activity, but it can accompany an attitude of "out-of-sight - out-of-mind".  This is not simply finding the excuse to skip several days of exercise but also treating physical fitness as a piecemeal activity, rather than a fully lived reality.

I checked out a workout planning video by Lean Secrets and it did provide a good perspective, as well as show how structure can be married to adaptation.  In this video there is the structure of thinking about physical fitness and exercise as zones rather than a regiment.  What the narrator does very well is show how she THINKS THROUGH the plan, that even though it is structured, it is not a tight all or nothing schedule.   The base structure is some simple maps of what might be possible and how such possibility can be adjusted to achieve an intelligent mix of exercises :