Our Past Determines Our Future…
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Unfit to OptiFit: Installment 5
Almost everywhere you look in modern society, we see behavior patterns and entire lifestyles leading to unfit, unhealthy men and women with unappealing physical traits. It seems everything in our immediate physical environment pulls us further away from a natural state of fitness, health and beauty. Our environment in the modern world no longer creates the body we want “naturally”.
There are many obstacles keeping us from achieving our fitness and physique goals:
- Finding the time
- Acquiring the knowledge
- Harvesting the energy
Sometimes it seems like pursuing the best within us often seems like an impossible task.
What is worse, these obstacles are often met with indifference, cynicism and apathy. There seems to be a common belief that the ability to naturally develop and maintain a high level of fitness, health and attractiveness in the modern world is impossible for the average person, and only obtainable for a select few.
I could argue that for the most advanced species on earth we are the furthest from our natural state of fitness, health and beauty. But I also believe that a high level of fitness, improved health and aesthetic beauty is just as possible in modern society, if not more so, as earlier in human history. We have just forgotten how.
We as a species are in existence today because our bodies naturally developed the ability to survive, flourish and excel in an environment much more demanding than the one we find ourselves living in today. While in many cases we no longer need the physical abilities and lean, athletic bodies of our ancestors in order to survive in the modern world, we are none the less instinctually drawn to physical fitness, health and aesthetic beauty.
Furthermore, the possession of fitness, health and beauty is undeniably necessary for those of us with the goal of reaching our physical potential and living life to the fullest.
Modern advancements make it possible to live a rather comfortable life. We no longer have to exert ourselves. Machinery and technological advancements take care of most of the work.
Our diet is more processed than natural. And since a convenient, high calorie food supply is readily available for most of us, the struggle to acquire food no longer exists. And let’s face it, most of the processed food tastes good.
So, the environment of the modern world is against you. It will not “naturally” create the strong, lean, attractive body you want. A poor diet, low activity lifestyle and modern temptations are against you.
But there is good news…
You can choose a proper diet, an effective exercise program and a healthy lifestyle. Free will and CHOICE are your secret weapons. Make a choice now, and CHOOSE to be fit, healthy and attractive!
Coach Eddie Lomax
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Stay tuned for the next installment… Fitness, Health And Physique For Survival And The Principles That Govern The Human Body
