Today more than ever we felt the strength of November Project Amsterdam. To be frank: we crushed it. Saskia stood quiet and dumfounded in happy tears for an entire 45 minutes. There was confetti shot in the wrong places, there was a lot of sugar, a lot of stairs, and a lot of hugs. And it turns out that the tribe pushes harder when the workouts are up to you – looks like you all enjoy telling other people what to do – I’ll remember this. To follow, is a note from Edoardo – a guy who pushes his limits no matter what, and never forgets to drag you all with him. He thinks today was good. He thinks every day should be like today. He’s right, don’t you think?
TODAY WAS GOOD.
There are things that cannot be replicated; what we call it at NP is #community.
Today’s workout was not about the amount of stairs or the harshness of the burpees, it was about the people and their willingness to push more.
Shout out to Natasha, who may not be the fastest in the pack but HECK YEAH for telling me to do a one minute plank when I proposed a 45 second one.
Shout out to Remus that is finally back with us and took over the workout full on with his one-of-a-kind enthusiasm.
Shout out to Saartje that does not give up on a few more pushups.
And finally to Robbie- he overslept and missed the workout but still showed up only because the NP Good morning is an addiction that beats the sleepiness now for many of us.
Big shout out to Saskia who discovered that emotions make your voice come back even after a “Race, Party, repeat” weekend…..and besides IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!
I am in no position to declare what the guidelines are for a healthy community of people, but as an observer of today, I will tell you what I think has been missing for a while, but showed up strong today:
Daring tribe members: November Project, in my opinion, is a movement that was built on overthrowing a well-established status or norm of fitness, but in the last few workouts, the tribe was just following orders and going through the motions, not pushing boundaries. If there are five burpees to the end of the series…fuck it do five more! Find someone as crazy as you and do them with him/her.
Enthusiasm: I have never seen so many High Fives and Fuck Yeahs as today. And this is not only because of a general feeling of today being a special one, it should be this way every workout.
Digital: PUT DOWN YOUR PHONES! Do not run with your phone, do not make Instagram stories while you climb the stairs, do not stop on the top of the stairs to take pictures of the rising sun. The sun will do the same thing tomorrow and the day after and it will be special in its own way. Do not diminish its importance by making it part of that digital desert that we make up with selfies and 24hrs stories.
Embracing each other: feel the people around you, live in the moment, breathe it. Our experiences are made of the people we live them with. Do not measure your social relationships in likes or hearts, measure them in hugs for no reasons, in a high five with a smile, in selfless and genuine actions like we all witnessed today.
We make the community, let’s make it better every day like we did today.
just love.
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