Health and Fitness for Life

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Health

Health is a funny thing. It is given to us as a child and we enjoy it without any appreciation for having ability to do what we want to physically. We run, jump, skip and just have a ball with energy and fitness we have without having to work for it.

Life

As we grow into our early twenties, most of us slow down from our most active years and don't get as much 'natural' exercise. We walk less, definitely run less and for most part, 'settle in' to a more comfortable life of going to work and, eating on run, then getting home in time to watch TV all night. (not too much exercise in that, except for thumb - changing channels)

Fitness

As we approach and enter our thirties, we tend to gain a bit of weight, lose some muscle composition, and begin to notice that climbing a couple of flights of stairs leaves us 'catching our breath'. This is beginning of a long, downward spiral of loss of health and fitness that slowly sneaks up in us - next thing we know we are in our early forties and some of our friends are talking about best blood pressure pills or anxiety reducing medications over lunch. What has happened?

Simple Daily Strategies

The best way to stop plight of health decline is to begin with some simple daily strategies. One of biggest reasons that health improvement products are everywhere is that humans have a tendency to look for 'quick fix' and avoid having to commit to any long term fitness activity. We begin a diet or fitness program that lasts for twelve weeks and three days into it we rationalize that timeframe of program doesn't justify commitment - so we quit and forget about our health until next reminder shows up.

The solution is to create a short list of simple daily strategies that will keep us involved with making healthy choices, without causing us to give in and give up. Some examples of this strategy are to take stairs instead of elevator, park a block from work and walk extra five minutes, throw a couple of apples in your bag to take to work so you stay away from vending machine.

Some other ideas are:

- Do a little yard work instead of sitting down on couch after work.

It was a short debate involving two non-scientific people, but wasn’t it interesting?

While Liam set out to demolish Joe’s faith, he was left with a simple retort that quietened him. In this case, non-believer lost because he had nothing substantial to believe in. And believer, far from a theologian, won debate because he had.

While above centred on religion, can’t it be applied to belief in anything?

There is not a court in world that can change your belief, should you insist on it, whatever about changing your physical position. Whether you are locked up or executed even, will can be more difficult to break than life.

This has been case since we began, but appears more vulgar when weighed against advances in civilisation, in its negative state, anyway. There would be no war but for this primitive remit.

With everyday, more civil matters, it is belief that drives everything that is driven with speed, and is more potent than desire. Most people know someone that gives 100% focus and attention to what they do. They often suceed.

Indeed, if we bring process further back, not much in time but in our time and pre-birth situation, something kept us going. Call it innate or a component of our primitive remit; something powerful gets us to our first breath. And it wasn’t easy, even if we forget it.