Fitness lifestyles are different for each of us.
Some of us are swimmers; others are runners; others are body builders.
Whatever it is that we like and fits our body is what we do, or what we should be doing.
But, considering how few people appear to be doing anything it is questionable just how true this is.
Our country has never been as universally unfit as it is today.
Forty years ago it was true that a trip to Europe could elicit admiration for the results of regular training.
All you had to do was go there and talk with some people in your own age group.
You once got immediate respect for your optimal healthiness.
Yet today there are far too few of us who get off the jumbo jets to elicit much other than blank looks or speculation for much other than the money which we might spend.
What has happened? Is it too much fast food? Is it too much of a glorification of an easy life? Is it apathy brought on by bickering politicians and a a terrible economy? Perhaps all of these together.
Admittedly, these together do make it harder to work hard while sacrificing the beers and Big Macs.
It seems there once was a time that regular workouts, consistent training table diets, and wise supplementation were admirable.
Seemingly far more people did them a few decades ago than do so today.
That is, in spite of the internet which has made all of the healthy living information more available than it ever was before, today sees far fewer people doing what they could and should.
In other words, today we are all better informed relative what to do, but seemingly far less interested in actually doing it.
Possibly one of the reasons for this sad state is the fear of being accused of being a machine.
That is what officer co-workers call an individual who shows up at the club at least four if not six days a week, eats all of the right foods all of the time and never misses his or her supplementation.
Perhaps this individual even has separate little cups for meticulously measured nutraceutical dosages.
How inhuman, how machine-like, this seems to far too many.
Nevertheless, this is only the flip side of resting, always eating grocery store food, and taking the prescription drugs which an MD says that you need.
All of that is human and okay, so say the critical ones.
For those who are afraid to get into a fitness lifestyle because of snide remarks from their peers for being a machine, a decision definitely needs to be made.
That reduces to simply being an athlete for personal trainer, rather being a patient for the MD.
Does it not seem that doing so is worth it.
Granted, one will have to endure a little criticism on the front end.
But she or he who laughs last does indeed laugh best.
It is either that or be reconciled to enduring all of that take it easy at your age, just eat less, and keep taking all of those pills from the big drug companies.
That is what goes with the good life, which is really not as good as it is cracked up to be.
Motivation? to get you off the MD and onto a personal trainer can be found in my book "Think and Grow Fit".
Read it today to start being a different you tomorrow.