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Is this why you quit? (It's why I did)

4 minute read | We're all so much closer to health than we know, yet why does it feel so far away? I might have the answer.

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Alexa Schirm
Jun 18, 2024
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Six years ago, I quit health. 

I don't want to say it was a rock bottom moment in my life, but it was the point when I decided I couldn't hold on any longer. I waved the white flag.

I don't know if you ever had to perform the hang test in gym class, but it's a good picture of my health journey before quitting.

The hang test is the test where you were forc…

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