Is Fitness Worth the Sacrifice, part 2?
ByDo we have an “on” “off” switch where we feel fitness is important and worth the sacrifice or that fitness is important, but not worth the sacrifice?
Living sedentary lives in the city make the alternatives more important. Hardly any living thing on earth was meant to “not exercise”. Secrets of the longest living disease free civilizations on earth include several key nutrients and very strenuous labor. These people, however are able to work hard and have sex into their 80’s and live disease free to over 100.
Not that this is your ideal life style, but what is it that tells each of us to get fit or live without being fit? For me, it seems I have never had the choice. Like breathing, I have always felt that exercise, not necessarily good nutrition is important. For me it has been the flexibility to do any sport or any activity whenever I so choose.
I have always loved the outdoor life style so not only do I love all sports, I love to get into the mountains and hike. Being active seems to put me in connection with my body first and then what ever I do outdoors puts me in connection with nature second.
The feeling of exercising my body to its potential makes me realize what a gift the human body is and how great it can feel when treated properly. If I have the choice of feeling great and inspired or feeling sluggish and moribund, I will take the former. I have learned that the harder I can exercise or the longer the activity, the more inspired and gratified I feel at the end. (After I have had time to catch my breath.)
Putting the right food into the system and keeping the body stretched allows me to accomplish more in a day if I choose, places few restraints on my activities, frees me from worry about sickness and disease, and makes my high quality life style a guarantee for more years.
Maybe the reasons people don’t treat their life with more respect is that they don’t have high level goals. Satisfying their body’s cravings is higher on the list than ignoring the cravings and giving the body what it should have. After a while, the body craves what it should have.
Once you reach the plateau that the body wants what it should have, you have arrived at the plain of synchronicity with nature.
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