TheBalanced is striving to bring you fitness that you can use. Exercises that make sense and improve your ability to do things with the body you’ve been given. There are physical and psychological barriers that hinder our ability to do the most with our bodies. And everything from emotions, nutrition, schedule and countless other things factor into our overall health and fitness.

We want to bring you the best and brightest information about how you can balance your life and your body perfectly.

What’s with the name?

“The Balanced” was chosen to be a defining name, like that of a group. Like “The Strong”, “The Forgotten”, etc. Belonging to a group known as “The Balanced People” is to search out and work at balancing every area of our complex lives. To be balanced in this way does not mean “everything in equal portions.” A 1ft cube of lead does not weigh the same as a 1ft cube of styrofoam. In the same way, time with family is much more important than time playing video games. Make sense? A good balance of time might look like: 15 minutes playing video games, 3 hours hanging out with the family. We constantly have to make sacrifices in life, so sometimes your balance might shift from 40 hours of working a week to 50 hours because your child needs expensive medication. Or because you’re saving for a big family vacation. These are sacrifices that are worth the temporary “balance” shift.

How does this apply to fitness?

We have a motto here at The Balanced – “Strive to be able-bodied.” Keeping with the idea of balancing life, the way we see it is that it’s not as important to be able to benchpress 400lbs as it is to not let your physical abilities hold you back from doing things. Being “able-bodied” simply means if anything is required of your body (running a few miles, lifting something heavy, climbing a tree/mountain, swimming across a lake) you are ABLE to do it!

You may also find that we are big advocates of body weight exercises. This is a great way to not let your muscle bulk get ahead of your cardio or body control. We’ll try to come up with a more scientific equation, but you can start here: for every 100lbs you can bench (or fraction thereof), you should be able to run 2 miles without stopping. If you’re not there, that’s ok! Consider it a goal and we’ll help you achieve it.

If you can already do that and SO much more, well, talk to us about improving the A-Game.