Wholistic Fitness

From the bitter taste of not winning a competitive race,
comes the the sweetness of personal health.”

– Coach Ilg

I offered the first of the season’s changing Aspen leaves to the WF Temple H(om)e’s Backyard Buddha, ‘Shacky’…short for ‘Shakyamuni’. truly, i’ve only had two major spiritual goals in my life;

1) to age as gracefully and beautifully and powerfully as a single Aspen leaf in autumn..

and

2) to, by the time my Teachers tell me, be able to have the balls to sit down upon Mother Earth, cross-legged, and not flinch my body or mind until Enlightenment like this Guy did, back in 483 B.C.E. not one human being has had the sheer toughness, guts, fitness, or spiritual tenacity to pull that most Greatest Feat of Human Capacities off since He. Shacky did it when He was only 39 years old.

i offer my entire lifetime of multi-disciplined sweat and stillness to this most Amazing Spiritual Athlete.

Think you’re tough?

Think you’ve got it going on?

Think all your money, shelter, possessions, and ‘accomplishments,’ are really something?

Let me tell you bucko, you don’t have shit unless you are dialing in the Nuts-and-Bolts of Enlightenment and know precisely what to work on after God says, “Okay, time’s up…thanks for playing again!” and thus extinguishes your final inhale…

will you KNOW where to take the final filaments of your Consciousness?

have you trained your Subtle and Refined anatomy as much as your physical anatomy?

for what, pray tell, ARE you TRAINING??!

that is why i race.

even if i lose, like at the State Championships last Saturday, i still win.

i am the 6th fastest bike racer in the state of Arizona in my age category. and even though i did not win a State Champion’s jersey (god damn it), here is what i did win:
Health.
Perseverance.
Self Reliance.
Faith in myself.
Strength.
Mental Tenacity.
WillPower.
Fitness.
Forgiveness.
Compassion.
Sacred Joy.

you see, Oh Noble Warriors, my body/mind/spirit was in a Yin Cycle last Saturday.

Bike Racing, if you want to win at it, requires a WHOLE LOT OF YANG.

timing is everything.

all a coach can do for you is line up the chronic and acute training variables in such a way so that on a given day, you perform your best.

you may not win the performance,
yet,
in looking back over the Journey;
you will see and inJoy a different Perspective;
you see the trail of sweat,
the long, studied silences,
the twisting curve of continual Forgiveness and Compassion,
you see the great Heights of Self Understanding and glimpses of your True Mind.

what you See and begin to Feel Deeply is that
you are not following any one else’s Path…
you are not pursuing any one else’s Fruit…

you see that your Dharma is yours al(l)one…

you see that the Path is created step by step, breath by conscious breath…

you see that
there is
no way you can Lose…

just having this Precious Life
is
a
win/win.

so, enter a race…train for it with the verve of ol’ Shacky…
go for the victory,
because
much Greater Spiritual and Physical Health and Fitness is going to
be a Training Effect from your effort;
thus, no effort you make along the Journey is EVER wasted.

besides,
you are already in a Race whether any one else has told you or not.
you are in the Human Race
and the Race is toward: Enlightenment.

need a Coach?

WF Online Training.

quit dinking around.

now.

death comes faster than getting dropped in a bike race, baby.
so, go for it!

om so ti,

your lovingly fierce coach
because you deserve the Podium of Personal Training;
Wholistic Fitness Online Studies.

***
special thanks to WF Online Student; Hakado Ru for the second photo