About
The Epic Workout is about putting yourself in it all the way, to allow your body new challenges and time to adapt, while you watch and feel the changes. Your key to success is, just as the success of all life forms throughout time, to be found in continuously modifying your options, adapting your body and mind, consciously evolving, to choosing the new over the old.
Your journey must begin with you.
Why are you here? Where are you going? Over the next 28 days, you will make changes and take on challenges. Our experience is that the clearer you are on certain questions, the more success you will create for yourself.
As Lao-Tzu said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
How Epic Works
Each Epic is a 28-day journey that you complete on your own or with others. Each day is charted out, enough to guide you comprehensively and also allow you to raise and meet your own evolving standards.
The Epic Workout is a 28-day transformative workout based on knowledge of human movement, principles of evolution and development, and raw experience.
Epic is made up of a 7-day set of learning with practices and challenges which, once completed, you will repeat and evolve four times. Each week builds off the last and is always different, always harder, and always doable. You will move on to additional challenges as your body adapts and feel stronger and more confident with the basic Epic movements, and progress yourself to meet new standards. We also provide practical tips for making lasting change to your body, health, and lifestyle.
Once the entire Epic Workout is complete, you’ll be the judge of how far you came and how much farther you wish to go.
The Hero’s Journey
Many Epic structures are purposefully designed around The Hero’s Journey, a description of a basic pattern found in many narratives from around the world. This universal pattern was described by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).
Campbell’s insight was that important myths from around the world which have survived for thousands of years, all share a fundamental structure. This fundamental structure contains a number of stages, which includes:
- A call to adventure, which the hero has to accept or decline
- A road of trials, regarding which the hero succeeds or fails
- Achieving the goal or “boon”, which often results in important self-knowledge
- A return to the ordinary world, again as to which the hero can succeed or fail
- Applying the boon, in which what the hero has gained can be used to improve the world
In a well-known quote from the introduction to The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell wrote:
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”
The Epic Workout is Bigger than Exercise
We live in an evolving universe, and as far as we know, no workout program has every been designed with this actually in mind. Now one has. The Epic Workout is founded in integral philosophies, evolutionary worldview, and a comprehensive understanding of what it means to be human.
What is Exercise?
Exercise. To exercise actually means to bring into action. When we exercise, we bring into action our ancestral memories. Our bodies remember that we lived in trees and forests. We need to crawl and climb and run if we are to develop our intellectual, emotional and spiritual capacities. We did not emerge from an austere iceberg of a distant planet, but in the particularities of this Earth and its forests. When we wander through the mountains, climbing and running, our bodies remember those deep patterns of behavior intrinsically tied to all that we are. We tend to think of exercise as losing weight, as trimming off the fat. But to exercise is to enable the body to remember its past, so that it can stretch out with all its intertwined powers of being and thought and reflection.
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