In the past I wrote updates about my training, one at the 3 years mark and one at the 5 years mark. Now it’s 2020, and it’s been 8 years since I started Contortion. What it amazes me is how much I can still learn, in terms of the smallest, most detailed form of information about my body. Each time I train I observe how I talk to myself, how I deal with emotions and training, how I decide beforehand what I want to accomplish and how I go about it during the session. Once you have down the physical technicality, you find yourself spending a lot of time training your thoughts to be of support rat ..read more

As I was leaving the gym today, after a training session that ended up great despite my initial doubts about it, I wanted to grasp all the feelings and the perception about reality I had in that exact moment, when I was fresh out of my endorphins state. Prior entering the gym, and also as I wake up many mornings, I feel tightness in my chest: it’s anxiety, which I’ve been living with since I can remember. I don’t know where it comes from most days, it’s just THERE. So yeah, before training today I was feeling anxious, tired, mind been going on and on with constant thoughts about things that st ..read more

I’ve been thinking about writing during this time, because another situation like this it won’t repeat in my life (I hope). Every 10, 100 years history taught us crisis happen, a cathartic way to force changes, sadly involving deaths, to raise awareness, reevaluate each and everyone’s life priorities, needs and essentially the way we think and live. I spend each day trying hard to stay busy during this ‘quarantine’ ( a term I never used before and has became very familiar at this point) and make the best out of it (keeping healthy, training, teaching, dealing with fears, worries about my famil ..read more

Here I am, writing on a plane, Boeing 777 from Milan to Miami, to be specific. I love plane rides only for the reason that they force you to disconnect from the Internet and, while they take you from one reality to another, they offer you with a good opportunity for some internal work: thinking of current life status, future goals and meditation. I’m thinking of how I molded my life around training – making the time, sacrificing it, avoiding social events to prioritize rest, creating a diet that would work for my goals, keeping work load to a certain level to assure I had my 10-15 hours of ..read more