Your Way

 Each day someone new to the fitness world walks into a gym or tries yoga in front of the T.V. And each day, someone else sets a new PR for themselves. Still, each day, many more know that they need to start working out but never do, and I feel for these people. I feel for these people greatly for I know that they know something has to begin for them and soon. You see we as humans are all athletes but thanks to societal evolution most of us aren't required to be. Time is ticking my friends...

 I am not going to give a workout lecture here. I am going to straight forward tell you that you have to exercise, we all have to. Mother Nature, the Good Lord, or whatever cell that mutated to create us developed us to be perfect athletes. Our athleticism was made for survival and since we've "evolved" that athleticism is slowly fading away. Only a few hundred years ago, men walked miles to go hunting and carried back their prize on their back. Women with a baby on hip, foraged and gathered food. We know the story, but more often than not must be reminded that we are athletes.

 For everyone who exercises regularly, you are dismissed from the rest of the article, but those who are thinking about it follow along. The most important step that you will ever take in your health, in your spirit, and possibly in your life is to make the choice of how you want to exercise. Most head straight for the mega-gym, only to fizzle out after a few short months left with annoying calls from dues collectors which is the only tangible thing to show for their attempt at exercise. Others try to join whatever fad gym is hopping this year and hopefully that fad will continue into next year. And the story goes...

 The best advice that I ever received about exercise was "don't worry what the other guy is doing, beat yourself." This tidbit came to me years ago from a friend's father, who began exercising under the correspondence tutelage of Eugene Sandow (the man whom the Mr. Olympia trophy is modeled after) and lived to be 103! Simple exercise, diligently performed, a natural healthy diet gave him 30 years more than the average life expectancy. So, don't worry about what everyone else is doing. Look on Meetup.com, go to a different gym or class four nights a week for a month until you find that one workout that you really feel right with. Instead of doing it their way find "your way."