Oct 30, 2022

ADDRESSING REAL HEALTH CONCERNS IN A POST PANDEMIC WORLD.

How can we better address real health concerns in a post pandemic world? Prior to 2020, people viewed fitness and exercise as a means to a singular end, to lose weight. When you see someone that regularly attended the gym, and watched what they ate, they were dieting and exercising to lose weight. Once the weight was lost, the motivation left, and everything went back to “normal”. If you saw someone that lived their life that way, it sparked confusion. “Why are you doing all of that? You are skinny enough, you don’t need to lose anymore weight.”

People have confused movement for health and longevity, and healthy nutrition, with weight loss only. People have also confused training for health and longevity, with training to be an athlete. Let me be clear, you can move athletically, without training to be an athlete. What’s the difference? You can move efficiently, and be strong, without pounding yourself into the ground with high volume, heavy loading, high intensity everyday. That’s crossing the line between health and sport.

In a post pandemic world, serious health concerns have become more of a priority. Those of us in the health and fitness worlds are seeing serious shifts in both physical, and mental health. The problem is, social media, media, politics, and lack of awareness, have us all believing that things are as they once were, pre-pandemic. News flash, NOTHING is as it once was, nor will it ever be. Everything has changed. Accepting that everything has changed is a step toward seeing the bigger picture.

People are aging quickly and egotistically ignoring that it’s happening. No, time isn’t moving faster to make us age quickly. Our environment is making us age quickly. Chemical loaded food and drinks, poor air quality, toxic relationships, MAJORLY increased stress, all age us faster than we would if things were different. Ignoring what is happening and believing you still need what you needed when you were 20 is egotistical and close minded. You are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to age. That is a gift denied to many. Adapting your life as you age, is a growth mindset. Knowing what you want to physically, and mentally, be able to do when you are 55, 65, 75+ makes you more aware of what you need to be doing right now.

Since the pandemic, illnesses are on the rise. Obesity, heart disease, poor lipid panels, depression, anxiety, Alzheimers, dementia, diabetes, increased pain and disfunction, you name it. People need help. Serious help. Telling people to “go join a gym and eat better” isn’t going to work. The typical gym is intimidating and unwelcoming to those that have no idea where to start, or feel that they are physically unable to do any fitness at all. Telling people to “eat better” fails because nobody is educated on what real food really is. People truly believe the only way to “eat better” is to go on a fad diet, eat nothing, fast, etc. With all of the free information that we have access to, at our finger tips, people are less educated than ever on nutrition, movement, and longevity. Move more + eat less = fail.

So what’s it going to take? It’s going to take people opening their minds and realizing that they need help. We all need help. That help needs to come from professionals that know what they are doing, have studied the ins and outs for years, have applied it themselves and know what works and what fails, and are working tirelessly to be better in order to help others succeed and change their lives.

At FeRRUM, we believe this so much, and see it so clearly, we changed our business model for it. We have put qualified staff in place to offer a top tier nutrition program. We have leveled up our education to help people that feel lost because of pain, obesity, post surgery/post physical therapy return to activity, aging, anxiety and depression, health decline due to sedentary lifestyle, etc. We see the bigger picture of health, aging, movement, activity, longevity, and mental health. We agree with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon that “muscle is the organ of longevity”. Doing burpees faster than anyone else, and eating and drinking whatever you want because of training this way, isn’t necessarily making you healthier for the long term. However, being able to add lean muscle to your frame, activate those muscles properly, physically be able to what you want when you want (play with your kids/grandkids, hike, bike, walk, lift, climb, play sports, etc.), understand that ALL movement serves a purpose and not just the heavy and/or fast ones, educating yourself on what healthy nutrition really looks like and understanding that nutrition and movement go hand in hand at all times, that is the real key to longevity.

Contrary to popular belief, this is something that is not new to our belief system. We have always felt this way. Our way of going about delivering it has changed because we didn’t know what we didn’t know. We have a passion for building better humans, and that includes ourselves. We lead by example. We believe that we cannot know enough about ways to better ourselves to help better others. The pandemic expedited the process, and the post pandemic world is in need of solving problems on a deeper level. The gym is the healthcare clinic, with the coach being the healthcare provider, of the future. The future is already here.