Escaping the Fitness Industry with Pawel Sendyka

Okay, welcome to another episode of the Architecture of Health.

I'm Deb Voisin, and this week I have Pavel Sendika, Fit Over 40.

Welcome to our show.

Hello, great to be on your show.

What attracts me to your work is you're taking these ideas that seem highly marketed or extreme about fitness, and you're using the lens of anthropology, which is your profession, to peel through and figure out what is it that just the everyday person needs.

So- So one of the things I remember hearing on your fabulous channel was that in the old days, there were three classes of movers, which is like the military, you know, the warrior, the athlete, and then the everyday

person.

The ancient Greek classification of exercise.

Everybody should do it to stay healthy.

And then there is military.

or when you're defending your cities, then, you know, obviously then health and the risk of death might even, you know, be acceptable because you're training for something really serious.

And athletic exercise, which is for, you know, accolades and glory.

And as you know, modern fitness have just winter mingled All of it.

And it's serving us a lot of military and athletic as wellness and everyday care, which it is not.

It

is not.

Okay, welcome to another episode of the Architecture of Health.

I'm Deb Voisin, and this week I have Pavel Sendika, Fit Over 40.

Welcome to our show.

Hello, great to be on your show.

What attracts me to your work is you're taking these ideas that seem highly marketed or extreme about fitness, and you're using the lens of anthropology, which is your profession, to peel through and figure out what is it that just the everyday person needs.

So- So one of the things I remember hearing on your fabulous channel was that in the old days, there were three classes of movers, which is like the military, you know, the warrior, the athlete, and then the everyday

person.

The ancient Greek classification of exercise.

Everybody should do it to stay healthy.

And then there is military.

or when you're defending your cities, then, you know, obviously then health and the risk of death might even, you know, be acceptable because you're training for something really serious.

And athletic exercise, which is for, you know, accolades and glory.

And as you know, modern fitness have just winter mingled All of it.

And it's serving us a lot of military and athletic as wellness and everyday care, which it is not.

It

is not.