The Search for a True Full Body Workout

The term full body workout is used quite frequently these days. But that continual discussion points to one rather distressing fact. There’s quite a bit of discussion centering around the attempt to find a full body workout. But not nearly as much discussion from people who’ve wound up at a satisfying end of their journey.

This shouldn’t make one give up the search though. One should instead examine the underlying reason for this difficulty. We can find some patterns in most full body workouts. And one of the largest factors involves an implicit assumption within the term itself. People tend to talk about a full body workout in the sense of something which involves the totality of their being. But we know that there’s far more to a person than just their physical form.

It’s little wonder that people often feel unsatisfied with a workout which disregards such an important part of their total self. It’s little surprise that so many workouts make that mistake though. Our culture has had a longstanding issue with artificial dichotomies within the human condition. It’s only recently that the mind body connection has been fully recognized.

However, ours is by no means the only …