Gymflesh®
Frequently Asked Questions
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Idiorhythmic Health · Idiorhythmic Exercise · Idiorhythmic Gymnasium™ ·
What
is Gymflesh®?
Gymflesh
Corporation (St
Diesel Mountain, Continental Village, NY) is an
interdisciplinary proactive, holistic health organization,
incorporated under the New York State Education Dept, State
University of NY, providing a wide range of services and
products relating to exercise and complete wellbeing.
Gymflesh®
offers these educational benefits to the public through its four
divisions: Gymflesh®
School and University Project (including the Intern Opportunity
Program and the Ecogymnasium™ Mentor Outreach Cooperative), Gymflesh®
Press and Library, Gymflesh®
Gear and Toys, and Gymflesh®
Gym and Academy.
We have a staff of health
education and medical exercise professionals that are experts in
areas ranging from philosophy and wisdom traditions, medical
practice and physics, exercise and fitness protocols, sports and
athletics, military procedures and martial arts, kinesiology and
physiatry, prevention and rehabilitation, psychological and
behavioral sciences, physical and occupational therapies,
wellness and nutritional guidelines, and more.
Gymflesh®
Gymnasiotherapy™
presents contemporary applications of the classic Ancient Greek
hospital standard (γυμνάσιοθεραπεία, gymnasiotherapeia,
1134 BCE), our custom-designed programs and inclusive services (i.e., idiorhythmic,
viz. living by
one's own cadence, as one's own personal measure, through one's
own intimate canon) for
your complete health and exercise needs making us unrivaled
and distinctive. Gymflesh®
provides three personalized, interdependent modalities:
Idiorhythmic Health, Idiorhythmic Exercise, and Idiorhythmic
Gymnasium™.
Why
the name Gymflesh®?
It’s odd, isn’t it?
This is a
serious play on words, a semantic
discordance,
used to emphasize our holistic
health philosophy.
Everyone has flesh. But
everyone also has a mind and a heart. Gymflesh®
strives to educate and advance the health of the whole person.
To access the mind and
the heart, the tangible, universal equipment we all own is
flesh. Gymflesh®
trains the flesh but also exercises the mind and the heart
toward providing complete health prescriptions. When you hear
the word Gymflesh®,
it should remind you that our services and products start with
exercising your flesh, but we do not stop there. We proceed to
advance your intelligence and your essence as we better your
flesh.
Gymflesh®
requires full activation of
the mind and the heart along with the flesh. Health of the flesh
is equal with health of the mind and the heart. It all starts
with Gymflesh®.
Does Gymflesh®
have a code of ethics?
"Help or don't
harm." —
Hippocrates. «Ωφελέειν
ή μη βλάπτειν.»
—
Ιπποκράτης
Gymflesh®
adheres strictly to the Hippocratic Oath and to the universal
medical precept: "First, do no harm" — "Primum non nocere"
— somewhat based on Hippocrates' "I
will do no harm or injustice to them"
— «επι
δηλησει δε και αδικιηι
ειρξειν».
We also subscribe to United Nations' instruments and documents,
and to UNESCO's
"Universal Declaration on
Bioethics and Human Rights."
N.B.: The Rod of
Asklepios (at left) is encircled by an abridged version of the
wisdom of Hippocrates: "Life, short. Art [of medicine], long.
Time, ephemeral. Judgments, critical.
Physicians must be prepared not only to do what is right
themselves, but also to make the patient, assistants, and
externals cooperate"
— «O βίος βραχύς,
η δέ τέχνη μακρή,
o δέ καιρός oξύς, η δέ πείρα
σφαλερή, η δέ κρίσις χαλεπή».
How
does Gymflesh®
define “health”?
Gymflesh
Corporation adheres to the universal definition provided by the
World Health Organization:
"Health is a state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity."
We believe that authentic
health is more than being without illness or a physiological
challenge. Health must also include intellectual fitness and
interpersonal wellness. As a result, the mind and the heart must
be enhanced simultaneously with the flesh.
What is “proactive healthcare”?
Most people start
exercise regimens when they have to, when they are forced by external
demands. These include anything from wanting to look physically
attractive to medical requirements for times like post-surgery recovery
or rehabilitation necessities. Usually these people start exercising,
then they stop once they’ve reached their quick goals or they lose
motivation and quit. This is what Gymflesh®
calls reactive healthcare. A person reacts to a serious demand.
Healthcare in America is
reactive; people only go to a doctor or to a hospital when something bad
happens to their health. Otherwise, they give no thought to preventive
exercise, what Gymflesh®
calls proactive healthcare. Proactive healthcare is living a
lifestyle of health and exercise as a prevention for the flesh and its
12 systems.
Rather than waiting until
an injury happens, or trauma, or illness and disease, or weakness, or
respiratory problems, or weight-gain, or sexual dysfunction, or
neuromusculoskeletal pathologies, or aging, or any thing that goes wrong
with the flesh, Gymflesh®
urges everyone to participate in proactive healthcare strategies and
exercise, not just to reactive emergency situations.
What
are the Gymflesh®
MEST®
Techniques and Gymnasiotherapy™?
MEST®
is an acronym for Medical Exercise and
Structural Training Techniques that only Gymflesh®
offers.
The Gymflesh®
MEST®
Techniques require education about one’s own flesh and its 12
systems in order to better the overall human structure. If your
structure is sound and whole, then your functioning follows in a
healthy, all-present way. When your structure is impeded or damaged,
your functioning will be, also. Gymflesh®
provides the foundation for structural betterment. After that,
any function is possible and doable.
Common, non-medical
exercise styles give attention only to the external physical flesh and
some of its functions, like what it can do, how it can act. These
methods define the flesh by its outer performance, not by its inner
structure. Generic exercise plans present routines without consideration
for the internal designs of the human flesh, so their designs usually
impede function and damage structure. Many unschooled, non-degreed
personal trainers pawn off functional, outer exercises to their clients
as physical fitness. Gymflesh®
is just as concerned about external physiology but does so with
medical structural-internal prescriptions for a continuum of total
health.
Remember: A house may be
quite pretty and colorful on the outside, but if it’s built poorly
inside, if its structure isn’t solid or lasting, its functioning will
always fail when faced with any act of nature like high winds,
torrential rains, earthquakes, trauma. And we all know, the human flesh
is always susceptible to attack from outside forces working against our
complete health and well-being of mind-flesh-heart.
The Gymflesh®
MEST®
Techniques and personalized Gymnasiotherapy™ prescriptions will protect your inner person in the most necessary
and pleasant ways. Regardless of your age or present physical abilities,
Gymflesh®
provides proactive healthcare strategies to last a lifetime.
Why do I need health
education? I just want to be fit and workout.
Human
flesh is a complex being. As an owner of this physical form,
each of us should know a lot about our own physical structure
and functions. This allows us to make educated informed consent
decisions about our health and the healthcare we receive.
Too often we allow others
(physicians, nurses, therapists, and other health allies and
practioners) to make our
decisions, trusting in their opinions. Each of us needs to learn
about our own flesh and its 12 systems so we can determine our
own plans of action for health and exercise.
A Gymflesh®
education about the flesh not only prepares you to know about
yourself, but also how to take ownership of your own health and
exercise wants and needs. If you are seeking a lifestyle of
health and fitness, not just a quick fix program, then Gymflesh®
speaks to you.
What
is medical
exercise? I don’t have a disease or illness or injury
Nowadays people think that exercise is limited to one of
two styles:
Cardiovascular (ærobics), or muscular (anærobic) training.
Fact is exercise
activates and betters the whole flesh, all 12
physiological systems simultaneously, interdependently,
never just one alone, always affecting each other
systemically: Muscular. Skeletal. Neurological.
Opioid. Endocrine. Digestive. Excretory. Autoimmune.
Integumentary. Cardiovascular. Respiratory. Sexual.
When one exercises, for
example, not only is that person breathing better,
gaining strength, but also benefiting and amplifying the
other ten systems like a stronger immune system, better
digestion, enhanced sexuality, reduction of stress,
optimal weight maintenance, greater bone density, alert
mental focus, hormonal balance, and the like.
Only Gymflesh®
teaches medical exercise as a proactive lifelong
intervention, a preventive lifestyle of complete health
— Gymnasiotherapy™.
What makes Gymflesh®
different from all other styles of training?
Gymflesh®
defines the human as a body of three coexisting parts: flesh,
mind, and heart. To attain complete health, one needs to
intensify all three aspects concurrently.
When people enter a
gymnasium, they do not leave their minds and hearts outside of
the arena. The whole person is called into play. If the flesh is
healthy, but the mind or the heart remains diseased, that person
lacks complete health.
Gymflesh®
encourages total participation of the mind-flesh-heart human so
that one has complete health, as WHO states:
"Health is a state
of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Gymflesh®
is the only health education and medical exercise organization
providing comprehensive academic studies along with physical
work and heart-centered enrichment.
Is
Gymflesh®
right for me?
We hope Gymflesh®
is. But then, we might not be. Gymflesh®
is an investment partnership between you and our services.
All participants have to ask themselves
if they want to start a lifelong commitment to optimal health
physically, mentally, and spiritually. Some people only want to exercise
their flesh for personal reasons: physical attraction, sports
activities, rehabilitation, and the like. Often these people have no
desire to become educated about the structure of their own flesh.
Gymflesh®
takes the time to know each participant, makes every moment with you
centered on you as a whole person, mind-flesh-heart. You must decide for
yourself if you want a comprehensive, whole-person health and exercise
program or something less, unfulfilling, and incomplete. You decide; we
provide.
All Gymflesh®
educational programs are custom designed and unique to advancing each
participant's mental, physical, and social health.
Many desire Gymflesh®,
yet few are qualified. A lot are common; most are not elite. The
majority simply do generic exercises and throw weights or blast out
ærobics; the chosen do gymnasium as art, do complete health as a
lifestyle.
Where do I start with Gymflesh®?
Browse through
our website and visit each Gymflesh®
division and get to know our vision for your health. There is much to
read and learn, even more to challenge you and fulfill you. We’re sure
you’ll find many things here that speak to you and that you’d like to
know more about. If you don’t see something particular that you’d like
us to provide for you, or if you want a custom-designed program to meet
your special needs, let us know and we’ll be glad to work with you.
Please email us or phone us with any inquiry you have. We will review
your inquiry and inform you whether or not Gymflesh®
is able to provide you with appropriate services.
Who can participate with Gymflesh®?
Whether you are a beginner, a thrill or curiosity seeker, an
advanced athlete, military servicemember, a law enforcement officer, a
firefighter, or an elite emergency services worker, Gymflesh®
has everything you need to advance your health and exercise lifestyle,
and to be your personal guide through all stages of your progress. We
are sure you’ll appreciate our longstanding experience and professional
expertise as the leading authority on health education and medical
exercise. Join Gymflesh®
now and participate as we are Making the Everyday Hero Athlete®. We look
forward to having you with us.
How do I participate with Gymflesh?
Each participant in any Gymflesh®
program must submit a completed and signed Consent to Education
and Exercise Form.
Download the form here.
Please complete the form, sign it, and mail the original to:
Gymflesh®
Gym, POB 475, Tappan, NY 10983-0475. Phone Gymflesh®
Gym at 212-714-8000, ext 7, with your specific questions,
requirements, and requests. Some
participants may be asked to submit a requisite supplemental
Confidential Health Status Form. Failure to accept the terms and
conditions of any of these Participant Informed Consent Forms will not
allow you to participate in any manner in any Gymflesh®
program. For additional information, please read our
Legal Notices.
What
are the fees to participate in Gymflesh®?
All services and goods are custom designed to meet individual and group
needs.
Terms, conditions, and fees depend upon your specific requests.Program
changes and prices are updated regularly and should be referred to
frequently for our current Terms and fees.
•
1. Individual requests start at USD
$700.00 per 90-minute session (15 hours minimum, 10 sessions),
exclusive of customized rates and additional fees.
•
2. Corporate
and group reservations start at USD $5,000 per day (one 6-hour
appointment minimum),
exclusive of customized rates and additional
fees. Billing-hour services (pay by the hour offerings) are not
available for corporate or group requests.
Terms, conditions, rates and fees depend upon your specific, exclusive
requests.
See Sample Programs and Terms of Service.
All correspondence is strictly confidential.
Gymflesh®
never shares or sells its membership or mailing lists. Your
privacy is just as valuable to us as are your physical health successes.
Does Gymflesh®
make special accommodations for or provide special discounts to
victims and survivors of human rights violations to help their
complete health?
Yes, we do. We provide significant reductions in fees, not in
services,
for qualifying Protected Classes victims and survivors
of discrimination, harassment, hate crimes, and other human
rights violations. All communications are restricted and
confidential. Please phone or email the
Medical Director.
If Gymflesh®
issues Master Athletic Educator (Personal Trainer)
certifications, why are they free?
We only
offer
nationally-recognized "Master
Personal Trainer and Athletic Instructor" certifications.
Gymflesh®
Master Personal Trainers and Athletic Instructors are schooled
under strict academic guidelines and must meet the comparable
standards of higher education.
Gymflesh®
does not sell certifications (nor do
ours have expiration dates), unlike most physical exercise
training companies and pay-as-you-go fitness businesses who mass
produce trainers while marketing short-term, renewable
certificates. A
matriculated Gymflesh®
School student in good standing, once invited, earns the
privilege to be Gymflesh®
Master Personal Trainer and Athletic Instructor and receives the
certificate only upon academic and peer review and top-tier
graduation. For more information, visit
Gymflesh®
School.
Does Gymflesh®
address social problems that affect health and impact exercise?
Yes. In fact, upon
request, our programs talk directly to many pressing social
issues, Gymflesh®
knows many social problems remain unaddressed and unspoken and
unhealed. Where most people either deny or avoid the real-time
social problems impacting complete health, Gymflesh®
dares open the dialogue and have long-overdue conversations
about these public crises. Some of the urgent topics needing
immediate and long-term interventions, that only Gymflesh®
speaks boldly to, are:
Depression, stress, and trauma,
PTSD.
— Rage and aggression. — Misogyny, misandry, bullying, and
domestic violence. — Racism, sexism, ageism and discrimination.
— Political divisions and nationalism. — Economic and class
structures. — Religious and belief discrimination, fanaticism,
and bigotry. — Self-injury and suicide. — Redacted statistics
and unrecorded data. — Played-out habits and timeworn practices.
— Nepotism, favoritism, and unearned advantage. — Cultural and
ethnic exclusivity and arrogance. — Unsafe, impersonal, and
degrading sexual practices. — Being single, divorced, separated,
or widowed. — Alcohol use, abuse, and alcoholism. — Illegal and
illicit substance abuse. — Pharmaceutical and various
addictions. — Tobacco, chew, spit, and snuff. — Homophobia,
heterosexism, and unlawful hate crimes. — Additional
idiosyncratic topics as requested.
Gyms Without Borders™
gymswithoutborders.org
and the
Ecogymnasium™
Mentor Outreach Cooperative
In 2007 Gymflesh®
founded
Gyms Without Borders™
and the
Gymflesh®
School and University Project
Ecogymnasium™ Mentor
Outreach Cooperative
as a proposed
nonprofit, international humanitarian aid agency and an
educational practicum format and theory curriculum for people in
health crises.
This developing project
works with teams of global experts in local
communities helping save lives, defending quality of life,
preserving complete health (mental, physical, social), and
advocating human rights protocols.
Its mission
is to develop and sustain preventive health education and
medical exercise preparedness for an immediate and significant
reduction in incidences of mortality, morbidity, disability,
injury, and stress disorders.
Write
Info@GymsWithoutBorders.org.
or phone the Wash DC Desk at
202-567-7076. For the Gymflesh®
Ecogymnasium™
Mentor Outreach Cooperative,
email the Gymflesh®
School
Assistant Provost.