I LOVE FITNESS and it loves me–I think! Because it has shown me that, regardless of all the science, exercise is the most effective, potent way to improve our wellbeing and duration of life; by staying fit.
I have spoken to several gene therapists about the hype to cure people with genetic diseases – but we’re still waiting for a breakthrough. And in a recent interview with geneticist, Adrian Woolfson, he said; ‘exercise is the best thing that everyone should be doing more of.’
It’s been well documented that our bodies go through several positive changes during and right after a workout. Gentle rebounding is going to improve your eye health, your skin health, your pelvic floor health. There is no wonder drug known to man that could do for your body’s health everything that exercise can do. If there were, we would all be taking it.
Not enough people do even the minimum recommended 150 minutes of strength and cardiovascular physical activity per week, and nearly half than half of all people over 40 reports doing no exercise whatsoever, and some younger people are entirely inactive.
The dire results of a sedentary life have been well documented, highlighting the risks of minimal physical activity. That equates to a higher risk for many different kinds of heart disease, cancers, and early death by any cause. Peoples’ bodies are walking time-bombs, because their inactivity increases arthritic symptoms, back pain and can lead to anxiety and depression.
Governments spend millions on health campaigns which extol the benefits of exercise, but they just haven’t found a way to effectively communicate the long-term risks of peoples’ unhealthy lifestyle choices. Repeating the same mantra that exercise is “good for you” or the importance of it being “good for the heart” aren’t enough to motivate people into the action mode, because they always see it as one more thing that they have to do.
Super-Agers know the importance of exercise, but they are in a minority 5% group of people who have slowed ageing, have better moods, less chronic pain, better vision, the list is endless and real, and the changes are measurable and almost immediate.
Doctors’ single-minded focus on treating and curing diseases, fuels the sick industry. Back in 400 B.C., it was known that diet and exercise were the best ways to heal people. Hippocrates famously wrote: “Eating alone will not keep a man well, he must also take exercise.”
Pharmaceuticals and medicine has shifted its focus from the prevention of disease to the more profitable treatment. There is no profit in a healthy population. If everyone were healthy, pharmaceutical companies would try to persuade us that we were not well.
Will there be a time when doctors will have to prescribe exercise just like they do drugs? With fewer people getting the minimum recommended amount of exercise, physical activity will come to be seen as the medicine of the privileged few.
Not every type of exercise will work for every person, of course, but it’s evident that nearly everyone benefits from exercise. You don’t need to join a gym; they are nothing more than bricks and mortar. Online forums like the Super-A club is what a person needs, which costs a fraction of a gym membership fee and is far more convenient.
