CONNECT: Feb 2012

With a Little Help from My Friends

It's safe to say that most people have a general understanding that regular exercise is a good thing in many ways. It's unfortunately, also safe to say that the societal norm is for folks to NOT exercise regularly. Too often there's a disconnect between what "we know we should do" and what "we actually do". 


There are many reasons why this disconnect exists (like 400 MILLION related search results on google) and there are countless researchers devoting their life's work to finding out why. But as you might expect from the Pro-Activity team - while we believe it's very important to understand "WHY"...it's at least as important to not wait around.....but to take ACTION now, in overcoming the road blocks in our path.  This month, we feature a group of friends (in the video clip) that did just that......in this case, the roadblock was crummy weather and the need to avoid the fitness level drop-off that so often happens during the "hibernation" season. 

To set the stage, this group is probably not all that much different than the groups you might hang with....they wear a lot of very diverse hats throughout their "typical" week. They're Dads, Husbands, Brothers, Providers, Hard Working Professionals, and Entrepreneurs.  But no matter what hat they're wearing at any given moment, there's a common theme that bonds them...they're all super BUSY and they juggle and sprint to keep it all together (sound familiar?)....and, even though it would be super-easy in any busy life to allow their personal health slip to the bottom of the ever growing list of priorities and just do it "some other time"....they have created a scenario where they WANT to get up on a Saturday morning and go through their paces.  They are fortunate enough to have the support of their families and friends, which makes it much easier to pull off, but the bottom line is, they WANT to be there....something that connecting with friends has unrivaled power to do.  It's really very simple, they've found that relying on one another be there, has motivated them to stay consistent and "squeeze it in"; and in so doing, they have been able to turn a hard fitness session, first thing on a Saturday AM into a social and fun experience, not something they SHOULD do.....but something they WANT to do.


The group, which started as few and now has grown each week CONNECTS on Saturday's from 8-9A at our BaseCamp31 facility.  There is no charge for this particular class.....but it is BYOB (that's "bring your own bike" [and trainer] in this case) and we suspect that once outdoor riding season is here, the tradition will continue outdoors.