Wellness by the piece

I walk a path where science and health meet dreams and the soul. It is my job to get people the best information that gives them the strongest chance at success. To help them process and implement change not just during our time together, but when they are out on their own and struggling. It is a relationship. I do it because I love it, and because people need these interventions more than ever. But, nothing in my field is as challenging and frustrating as the selective commodification of wellness. Is it helping anyone? 

The standard pentagram of fitness that is in practice at RE*FIT still remains the only science backed standards of fitness and wellness. We are more confident than ever in our client first, person-focused practice. We believe building habits promotes lasting change and good health.  

- Movement is an absolute necessity for the body, and your body has a way it wants to move. 

- Rest in any form will invigorate the mind. 

- Hydration for balance in the body's tissues. 

- Nutrition should always be as clean as feasible. 

- Flexibility to better manage aches and pains in the joints and muscles of the body.

Commodity-style wellness tears these concepts apart, makes them pretty for Instagram, and sells non-holistic solutions as the only solutions. My feeds tell me the cure all is that you need a nap during lunch or perhaps daily stretching. If that isn't working, try some yoga instead. Here's another ad for sleepwear that allegedly restores blood-flow to muscles, based on research the company paid for. It's throwing darts at a board and the end result isn't serving any purpose beyond creating frustration and anxiety, so you'll consume more piecemeal wellness products. Bad advertising aside, how many PELETON bikes are going to gather dust in a basement, or worse, cause serious injury?