Usually we have a hard time enjoying internet meme style stuff related to fitness. As experts we find so many of them trite….then one cuts through all the noise.

We preach about health as your top priority because everything in your life depends on it. Fact is most people just run their health down like a gamblers bank account. We get it, people just want to live so when they don’t have to do something they most often won’t. Still the fact remains that as your physical health diminishes so does the quality of your life. No amount of money or distraction can change that. You can minimize it or justify it but deep down inside you know you’re suffering.

What this meme drives home is that your physical fitness is nonnegotiable. It’s not a contract and it’s not subject to any rules except 1:

“Use it or lose it”

Pretending you don’t care enough to have an exercise program is foolish. Eventually your weakness wins and you succumb to living a life all about pain and disease management. The old days of living until something serious went wrong and then dying soon thereafter were really rough. They were based on how your early years were spent and your genetics. As life and medicine improved we learned to avoid the obvious big stuff but we replaced it with death by a thousand cuts. The erosion of time is now seeing society endure decades of low quality living and life expectancy is starting to reverse. Where life was shortened by overuse of the body to survive it has now been replaced by the destruction of underuse.

Be well, be strong and prioritize.

Andrew and Tierney