4 Skills That Guarantee Lifelong Fitness
Your gateway to a spontaneously active lifestyle
When you Google “list of failed New Year’s resolutions,” getting fit often makes an appearance at or near the top. This is tragic, given how important fitness is for long-term health and a full experience of life.
So, why is it so hard to get in shape? Our environment certainly has something to do with it. Modern technology has made movement unnecessary for survival, allowing us to spend most of our lives on our ever-expanding behinds.
But still, everyone knows the importance of fitness. We also put a lot of pressure on ourselves to achieve athletic physiques. There’s even a massive industry dedicated to making our fitness dreams come true.
And yet, we remain as sedentary as ever. Why? Well, to put it bluntly: moving an unfit body is a pain in the ass (and various other places).
Indeed, most of the rich world is firmly stuck on the far left in the graph below. All those extra pounds and all that sitting mean that any physical exertion quickly leads to exhaustion, making the “fitness threshold” seem insurmountable.
