无意间看一一篇健身文章，公众号“Fitnow遇见”徐涛老师写的一篇文章《运动的时候到底想些什么呢？》把我从许多年的困惑中拉了出来。我一直享受跑步，跑步也给我带来了很大的改变，无论从外形上还是心理上，我心里一直深谙它的重要性，只是我却无法具体文字表达出来，直到看到这篇文章，我才恍然大悟。
“一开始的时候我并不会去想今天可以跑多远，跑多快，也不会思考会见到什么样的人，遇到什么样的风景。一切都是未知的。”
“尽管脑子里会飞快的闪过一些思绪，但大多数时候都是歌曲的调调，什么也不想就这样被脚下的路随意牵引着向前。看似是一种麻木的状态，也许你会觉得这种麻木索然无味，但重要的是，此刻所有的苦闷、郁结也同时消散于流淌的汗水中了。渐渐的你会明白，这种麻木似乎是一种空灵，我们可以在这个时候真正进入自己的内心，感受自己，释放与解读自己”
“生命中最痛苦的阶段，并不是没有人懂你，而是你不懂你你自己。健身吧，汗水会让你更加了解你自己！”
原文链接：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yZuNTk_Kdcv44rEctTms3A
为了加深这种理解，忍不住自己翻译了这篇文章~
What was I thinking about when doing Fitness
With fast technological development, especially during recent one hundred years, it can be said that our life has changed tremendously, compared with ancient human life. However, when sitting down there silently and thinking about human themselves between different times, thinking about happiness, sadness, love…all kinds of human emotions, you will find it seems humans really don’t express themselves so differently from the past over how they react to these emotions.
They don’t feel more tough than the past, neither happier nor more painful. This dilemma has nothing to do with satisfaction, nor cherish, which is probably more about inevitable how we live our life. From the positive perspective, all feelings are worthy valued, as long as they are sincere and true. But life itself is ordinary and painful, then we have to seek our own little satisfaction. I believe fitness and reading can be regarded as answers without doubt. Matters and things that require persistence and delicacy are all composed by each and every little moment.
There are many pals asking me how I keep it up for so many years, or how extreme diet I have to gain my present body-shape. Actually, you will set up many goals, wonderful and satisfactory endings to induce yourself to hold on longer at the beginning, which is indeed greatly helpful. But when you go further and further and further, when you see the more important part is how you step to your goal whereas goal itself, you will fall in love with it, then there is no said motivation.
Back to our main point, what was I thinking when doing fitness? I want to ask you: what should I think when doing fitness? You begin to exercise for one or two reasons, but as lone as you continue it, you will find you quietly enjoy no-one-bother moment that only belongs to you, the moment that frees you from any troubles and thoughts.
You are on your home-road, you feel a little emotionally excited. Smile on your face, you cannot help fasten your steps, you get home, you change your sports-wear, and you feel delightful, your tiredness seems all gone. With earphones done, you are off lightly and joyfully. You are a little nervous with joyfulness, which is absolutely normal. You are delighted for your not-easy-come moment; you are nervous for you don’t know how long it can last, you don’t know how long and how fast you can run, you don’t know whether you will make new friends. You are joyful and nervous for all unknows.
You have come to a place more suitable for running, and you feel sweating a little not as easy as the first. With warm-up finished and fast-rhythm music set, you speed up gradually to match the music. Time passes by, you feel harder and harder, then you come to your first extreme point, you feel you cannot breath, but you don’t stop, a few moments later, you feel released a little, you will feel you are swinging in these feelings. Lastly, you will reach a state that is not so comfortable but persistent.
Many piece thoughts will flash in your mind, but mostly you are with music rhythm to step your rhythm. Many people find long-distance running boring for this “numb” state, but don’t you feel all your ease, anguish and bothers vanished with your sweats? Gradually, you understand this “numb” state is freeing you, you can feel yourself deeply, you can understand yourself better. Life is a practice and contains many depressed moments, which you would like to call demon-you. You feel like running longer and faster overcome these demon-you. When you are out of strength and your body wants to stop, your mind tells you: hey dude, run longer, you can do it, you will listen to me, run to next corner, next people, next billboard, next…And you succeed, all anguish and stress are gone like ice melting under sunshine.
When you persist fitness for years, you will find fitness requires no rivals, which I regard as one strength, although fitness needs much time and you feel lonely sometimes. Everyone has their own step, it’s impossible to find one exactly same as your step. But you will meet many new people sharing their stories and thoughts, helping you go further on this road.
Fitness itself is one wonderful thing. When you really sweating yourself, you feel no loneliness, but another amazing feeling:the hardest moments in life are not no one can get you, but you don’t even understand yourself. Do fitness, sweats will always be there for you!!!
