Workout
I was at the gym the other day and I began thinking, a dangerous thing to do when working out. Whats it all for and why, and would it have been useful if someone had been there a bit earlier and told me what it was all about, the boredom of it all, weighed against the obvious benefits, well here goes…
I have been working out for about 18 years and i still don’t look like Justin Timberlake, I don’t have a washboard stomach and girls don’t swoon when they see me on the beach. Why didn’t someone tell me when I started you are supposed to warm up and warm down and show me how its done, tell me I would be better off taking it slow and light on the weights and doing lots of running, rowing, cycling etc. Best of all diet, inner strength and outward behaviour would all go toward making me fitter and healthier.
Look I am fitter, I do feel better after I have been, especially if I take a steam bath or sauna as well, but it is a bit boring. I change my routine now and then and if I paid more I could go to one of those gyms with lots of sexy people to look at while I am going nowhere on the running machine (I could never keep a hamster now). No No whatever, its still boring.
What no ones telling us is we are all getting, on average, across the western world, fatter and lazier. Our jobs are sedentary, look at what I am doing now sitting typing on a computer. A smaller and smaller proportion of the population appear to be doing manual jobs, they are all sitting in call-centres I guess. We are all getting weaker and it is not good for us, our doctors in the Uk now hand out prescriptions to people with ‘exercise…go to the gym’ written on them.
Perhaps thats what we have always needed but now we go 2 minutes down the road in the car, I mean hell if we walked we might meet someone and they might rob and kill us or even worse talk to us. Is this turning into a rant, its probably all those extra endorphins flying around my system from working out.
Seriously, if I stop going to the gym I get back problems, all these muscles I have developed need keeping flexible and in trim and its a lifelong project, but my advise to young and old before you start, don’t just take a bit of advise from the gym instructor, look at your health holistically. Work out how you can improve your diet, make sure you exercise your body generally, not just on an exercise machine, read up in your library, bookshop and on the net are some great books on health and exercise; most of all allow yourself time to relax as well and find a place for happiness and inner peace.
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