A Bit of Advice

This'll be a rather short post, but I think it'll prove to be an important one. I've been working on a new fitness program as of late (and it's a good one by the way; after I've put it through its trials, I'll make it available to anyone who's curious). As per my creative process, I often fill up the programs I create with a good chunk of philosophical musings.  As a philosophy major, I can't help but see amazingly effective ways to apply philosophical systems to real world problems, such as how to best go about living a healthy and fit life. Below is an excerpt from my notes, pertaining to the most recent program I've created. It's an outgrowth from the Ancient philosophical method for ethics which is comprised of 4 main components: (1) owning your location; (2) reading yourself into a story; (3) improvising/performing the good practices revealed by the story you've read yourself into; (4) identifying an exemplar who embodies the good practices you know you ought to do.

Here's the excerpt:

"The “Paleo” diet narrative is a handy tool; therefore, abide by it as much as possible (80-90% of the time).  Read yourself into the paleo story; own it.  Understand that it is only a story, but it is a helpful one.  Forget about what constitutes universally healthy principles; no such principles exist.  Find your orientation and goals in space-time (in this case, within an Iron Culture concerned with quality of life, quality of performance, etc.), use the paleo-iron narrative to guide your improvisation of food choices and exercise philosophy, put into practice the habits of one who abides within the paleo-iron narrative, and look for an exemplar practitioner of paleo-iron culture so that you can emulate him/her as you go about establishing habits that will better allow you to naturally make good, beneficial, and healthful choices in such a way as to make the performance of what is good seem natural, obvious, easy, joyous, and free.  BEWARE:  Do Not let the pursuit of “perfect truth” detract from your practice of what you know from the paleo-iron narrative to be good—eat nutritious foods, lift progressively heavier weights, do high intensity efforts on a regular basis, stay active, stay lose, and don’t exercise or diet yourself into the ground."

I can't and won't attest to the profundity of the above, but I hope that the message at least proves helpful for you; whoever or wherever you are.