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May 7

What If Everything Were As Simple As This Fitness Routine? – The Cut

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The premise of the digital fitness platform the be.come project is straightforward: one new routine per week. The setting, the plan, the movements are all plain. Its the repetition of the routine throughout the week thats the best type of simple the kind that clears stuff out of the way so that you can get deeper into something. Yes, the physical recall breeds familiarity and the ease of muscle memory. Its the arrangement the same thing, the same thing, just for a while, just for a week, then it will change thats been a helpful corrective for my restless mind. Theres something about repeating a movement, but not forever, thats primal and soothing.

Id call the movement in the be.come project something like well-paced active stretching to a playlist. Its graceful and flexed, maybe something between Pilates and yoga. Maybe this is what calisthenics is. As the music dips from Pony to Jolene, the movements dip from curtsy lunges to butterfly crunches. It loves an oblique twist. Loves to challenge your balance. Its hold all of your body extremely still, then very slowly move one muscle until it heats up everything around it. In a rhythmic fashion that feels a little dancerly. Wow! Dancerly! I mean, can you imagine how elegant and insufferable you seem after you feel dancerly? Sooo insufferable, but theres no one there to witness it.

The routines are low commitment, about 25 minutes per video. Its the nice middle. Its enough that I feel like Ive done something, even if its the only exercise I do all day. Its also not so much! It has an interesting effect of shaking me out of doldrums and out of the house on a bike ride or a stair run. Theres something about this whole thing that makes me feel organized. It makes me feel like a streamlined little praying mantis.

I also really appreciate that the routine videos are filmed from the back. Compared to a video that faces the instructor, this feels way more like being in a class, which provides a subtle comfort. The videos show be.come project creator Bethany C. Meyers and two participants, who each demonstrate a modification to the routine. Along with the videos each week, on the be.come projects app or its website, there are tutorials, though Im too much of a dilettante to learn about what Im doing wrong. The be.come project has a ten-day free trial, then $35 per month after that to get access to This Weeks Routine. Recently, the company has started offering varying tiers of support for people in need.

The be.come project organizes time into steady slices, when time generally feels like its slipping by. Since the new routine was posted on Monday, Ive done the be.come video every day, though this new routine hasnt been my favorite. Theres a series that I privately refer to as drumstick leg, which is both difficult and boring. Some of the songs Im hard eh about. And last weeks routine was my favorite so far smooth, slinky, peaceful, kind of groovy. That video is still up, right next to this weeks, but I havent gone back to it. Sticking to whatever comes up this week feels like part of the project. I know its just for a few more days. Then Monday will come, and the routine will change. The future will be different.

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