You were born beautifully imperfect, propelled along a path presenting you with growth challenged by constant degeneration, and ultimately death. You had no choice over your existence, and you had no choice regarding your genetic boundaries. You’re as tall and as crooked as your genetics map says you’ll be, and you can’t change that. It’s now up to you to make the best of it. Sure, you can forcefully modify certain aspects of the results of what your genetics have mapped out, such as plastic surgery to enhance your breasts, or osteosynthesis (artificial lengthening of the bone, like in the movie Gattaca) to make you taller.

Even though we’re constantly battling degradation over time, which we recognize as aging, we have 100% control over not only the actions we take to combat that process, but also over how we respond to external circumstance beyond our control. Injury, for instance, can alter our tissue permanently, which will modify, so to speak, our genetic boundary, and cause us to focus differently on the affected boundary.

The perfect human has a best case scenario for human movement and behavior. That ideal is only a theory as we are feeble enough and hopefully humble enough to acknowledge that we can come close to understanding perfect, but since nobody is perfect, we don’t really know what that looks like. We can study mechanics and machinery to know what the optimal movement patterns should look like in the human body, but we won’t ever be able to emulate perfection. We get really close though. Nonetheless, assuming best case scenario in human movement, there’s a mechanical truth to the right way to squat, the proper way to stand, the best position for sleeping, etc. Since we’re so varied due to the imperfection of our beauty as a result of our constantly varied genetics (varied between each individual,) and the biochemical variances and complications of each and every individual, best case can only be used as a base line, a starting point. Not everyone is going to be able to apply a cookie cutter solution to their problem. By and large, a vast majority of us will benefit from general programming that targets a wide audience, but each of us has a specific specialized program just waiting to be discovered.

There’s no way to find out what this is without diligent self-study, and even then, there are going to be experiments you will not be able to conduct on yourself.

But Some Things You CAN Change

If you come to the realization that you are limited in some capacity by your genetic road-map, then there is a higher likelihood that you will be able to come to terms with those limitations, and ultimately be able to love yourself. But, most of us do not achieve maximum potential. I believe in striving for excellence, but I am also a flawed man in a deteriorating body, and I fight against very powerful forces that would have me thinking very unhealthy thoughts about myself. The best that I can do is modify my behavior such that I will be able to reveal the genetic boundaries that are not as obvious to me, in order that I may know what my physical limitations are. I know I won’t have hair on my head. I know that I’m not going to be taller than 5′ 7″. What I do know is that I can be the best me that I can be if only for the sake of staring me in the face and coming to terms with who I am.

What better way to come to terms with reality than to stare it down? It’s so much easier to continue to fail and to make excuses than it is to face the possibility that you’ll never be what they sell you in the fitness magazines. But wouldn’t you rather know the truth so you can finally rejoice in knowing what you actually look like under all of that fat? And more importantly, wouldn’t you like to be conditioned to the utmost highest degree such that your looks no longer matter and the internal measure of your success is based on how well you perform, and the external measure of your success is based upon how God views you?

Some things you just can’t change. But some things, you can. Now go change.

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