We’re about what is real at This Is. Life is precious, it is short and there’s no time to waste on that which doesn’t make us stronger, better people and communities. We don’t have time to fight the past because it takes everything to build the future and explore the now.
We are open, compassionate and passionate. We hold everyone in our community accountable to one another whether you’re a member, trainer, psychologist or manager. This means that when you’re part of This Is, you’re in it 100% because that’s exactly what you’re going to get back. Our team will genuinely care about you, and be completely focused on working together to help you change for the best.
On all levels we’re about being active, either physically or mentally. From our Strength, Movement and Wellbeing programs which we deploy in-house to our community education and outreach programs, we’re about helping people learn that life is about movement.
More importantly, we teach our people the importance of not just being active, but instead being proactive. Don’t wait to be challenged, seek it out. Instead of working around injuries or illness, dive head long into what it can teach you about yourself. This Is will proactively challenge you until you learn to crave it yourself.
Our community is one of inclusiveness, flexibility and strength. Built on a foundation of compassion and respect, we accept everyone and anyone through our doors. Part of building an enduring community is embracing differences as strength, about seeking conflict in order to practice patience and making use of others’ ability to enhance your own.
We adapt and we grow emotionally, physically and socially. We look to our own community, but also the community around us to be challenged, to challenge and to promote and instigate change.
We spend so much of our time fixated on the past or worrying about the future that we forget that one can’t be changed, and the other can only be changed right now. People drown out that voice that calls for change with a voice that looks forward or backward too often.
The result is that we hesitate, or procrastinate. Every second which we worry about how we’re “supposed” to look or feel or move is a precious moment lost to fear. The more we practice that fear, the more now becomes never.
So it’s time to change. At This Is our purpose is to change lives for the better. Not just because we want to help people, but because change is something which is going to happen whether we like it or not, so we have to harness and direct it.
At This Is we’re in our own state of change at all times. The health and fitness industries have been the same for so long, fixated on the unhealthy, on weight loss or appearance that it’s forgotten to make people strong. We’re not the same, and neither will you once you join.
Letting go of the past and seeking positive change means that you can’t hold on to the old, ineffective ways. Everything we now know points toward seizing what is good and strong about us, being challenged and excited to find what needs work and caring more about who we are and where we are than how we look.
It’s time to stop asking what have you got to lose and instead ask what have you got to gain? There’s always a rock bottom and you can only lose so much. However, if you put all your energy into building, you’ll always be growing.