Being out of shape means you are sick and suffering from a disease…yes for real. Understanding fitness as maintaining a “health baseline” with reasonable nutrition, sleep and weekly exercise is the medical viewpoint we desperately need.

Modern living sees people lose basic strength, endurance and flexibility as early as their 20’s the problem is serious.

Being out of shape meets all the criteria and definitions of being sick and afflicted with a disease.

Consider how being out of shape makes you more vulnerable to viral infection and you start to see the greater picture. Lack of fitness means you risk mixing disease on top of disease. The result of this piling on effect is exactly what we see in society. Chronic fatigue, chronic pain, repeat infections, super high rates of cancer and heart disease.

The overwhelming amount of weakness from a physically easy lifestyle represents what we call “UnFit-24” disease. Think we’re exaggerating or being coy? Think again just check out statistics on co-morbidities and their effect on bad health outcomes.

Understanding UnFit-24 as a serious illness may be one of the ways to relieve burden on our healthcare systems. We need a serious change in medical assessments to combat this epidemic.

Be well, be strong, fight UnFit-24

Andrew and Tierney