TJ's Gym Weekly News 4/26/2020
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Brian was way more psyched than he looks to see me and this Airdyne. We are on a mission to keep you all fit and motivated during these crazy times. Reach out if you need help!
MESSAGE FROM TJ
Your Hero's Journey
The Hero's Journey has been a common template for storytelling since the birth of stories. A hero goes on an adventure, encounters trouble, wins a victory, and comes home forever transformed.
Along the way, philosophers, scholars, and psychologists have broken down the pattern of the narrative and how it can influence the common person in everyday life.
In the movie Django Unchained, this storytelling tool is slightly altered (as they all are), and the arc is messy, though still with a signature trajectory.
Played by Jamie Foxx, Django loses his beloved wife, Hilde, to the slave trade in the deep south. He, himself, is taken into slavery but is rescued by a bounty hunter named Dr. King Schulz, played by Christopher Waltz. In that moment, Schulz becomes Django's savior. Upon hearing Django’s story, Schulz only wishes to help Django realize that this quest of freeing Django's wife is why life is worth living.
Schulz mentors Django into becoming a gunslinging, fast-talking, fashionista of the Wild West and helps him forge a plan to free Hilde.
The plan must be pulled off without a hitch, and all of the characters need to play their part in order to free Hilde. At this point, the playing field has been leveled between Schulz and Django; it’s obvious that they are now partners and equals.
Things go awry as they normally do in the movies. The plan is scuttled, and Schulz is killed. Things get really, really messy (this is rated R, folks, and kids need to leave the room).
Now having to think on his feet and use the bare necessities available to him, Django rises from the deepest depths of shackled impossibility to lay waste to his captors and rescue his beloved Hilde—Hero's Journey accomplished.
I am asked multiple times per day what my opinions are regarding the timeline of the gyms opening, what it will look like, and what the protocols will be. I'm a terrible guesser. I'm more of a data analyst and gut checker, and there just isn't enough information out there yet for me to be holding court.
I do know there will be a plan. I'm pretty sure that plan will be scuttled. I’d put my money on it getting messy and random, and I truly, truly believe that we will one day have lives of beautiful normalcy once again. I'm a blue-sky, glass-half-full guy.
What I can guarantee is that we aren’t going anywhere. We will coach. We will help. We will stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone who asks. I will continue to reach out to you and get your opinions and your thoughts, because this community is comprised of some of the smartest, sweetest, successful human beings on the planet.
Allison, our coaches, and I need to be what you need us to be. If that is to help, then so be it. But we don't think we are the Django's. We are just fine being your Dr. Schulz.
I miss you all.
TJ
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