You? Slug?
April 13th 2007 09:51
Is this your role model?
The business of fitness may be as much involved in the accumulation of little patterns of laziness as it is in getting all fired up and starting a fitness program that will challenge the body. People really are the sum total of their habits. If you pile enough lazy habits one upon another you will have a real task to restore your fitness.
The modern world is all about laziness. Children giggle when their elders regale them with stories of how in the old days you had to rise out of your chair and maybe even cross a room to change the channel on your television. I used to ride a bicycle over long distances. To amuse myself on my treks I would be on the lookout for the latest contestant in a a game I envisioned. I was looking for the contestant who was using the largest riding lawn mower on the smallest lawn. I could tell you some stories of monster mowers on postage stamp lawns.
My point is obvious. The more you indulge your laziness the more your body will become inert and feckless. It seems a little too modern when I see people who do nothing physical to speak of flying into the gym for a workout. Its a good idea, let me say, but I think a holistic approach makes more sense.
My kind of shopping cart
I think one of the ways that you can maintain your fitness is to make the commitment to avoid all the conveniences of modern life when they are really more gratuitous than useful. I have some suggestions as to the kind of things that you can do to keep inertia from becoming the lord and master of your life. You will be able to come up with more,since you know your life and its patterns better than I.
1) Try to park at the far end of the parking lot whether at work or while shopping. A good walk across the parking lot of a big box store is going to at least keep your legs familiar with the lost art of walking.
2) Try to avoid using a shopping cart, if you can. Take a basket or sack and carry your items around the store and then from checkout to your car.
3) Give the dog a walk in the morning and in the evening. Total up the extra mileage at the end of a month. Stick an i-pod in your ear and enjoy the extra fresh air.
4) Never settle into your easy chair for very long. Get up and move. Spend TV or YouTube time doing some kind of light exercise or stretching.
5) Use your push mower, unless you mow a golf course.
6) Do some serious floor scrubbing etc as part of your cleaning regimen. Work at it.
7) How about a Sunday walk in the park?
Just a few suggestions. The thing is in the attitude. Try to resist the temptation to be a slug and try as well to think of ways to keep yourself moving.
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