Endurance Sport Is Primal

If you feel the calling to participate in endurance sports then you are essentially feeling the pull to connect back to a primal experience. It's like an awareness of something missing. That something is moving your body with purpose and strength outside in nature. As endurance athletes we are simply connecting back to our primal knowing by doing our endurance sports.

This is such a powerful concept to explore, as it helps us with perspective on the why in our athletic journey. We can see it as DNA or ancient ancestry knowing or, we can view it as part of our human evolution+ that our human bodies do not want to lose. It's truly part of our hard wiring as we have spent centuries outside in movement.

It is ingrained in our human DNA to move in nature. We are actually built to live, thrive and move in nature. Our bodies function best when we are closest to the earth and move. In our modern western culture we spend most of our day inside at work or school or in our homes. This is a dramatic change from our hunter gatherer ancestors who thrived outside moving their bodies with freedom and purpose. In some sense endurance sport gives us back a small part of that freedom and purpose and even the chemical connection to what our body is built to do.

It's easy to get caught up in common external reasons we may be drawn to endurance sports that are focused on external factors like group validation or like racing or to win. This comes into play when you explore our primal need for competition and the warrior, which is also very natural for many. However, right now we are talking about the first level of primal need which is to move our body in nature.

Essentially, as we explore the pull we feel to experience our endurance sport, truly connecting back to our primal senses and the need to move our body. This is awesome! It's awesome because it shows us that we have accessed an intuitive awareness within ourselves that we should be moving our body outside and in our natural world (nature). Most people in our modern world have lost that primal memory. But YOU have it and that is part of what makes your personal athletic journey so special.

You are a positive contribution to our world by listening to your primal senses. The more that you listen to your primal senses the more you will feel your true primal strength. 

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