Lucky are those for whom the benefits of vigorous exercise are more or less the unintentional effects of something they love to do. I am not one of them. My friends have heard me declare that I like to swim, but what I really like is not so much moving purposefully through water as being immersed in it, like a tea bag.
On this much we should agree at the outset: exercise is good for you. Virtually all medical professionals would sign off on that proposition, and so would most of the rest of us, even at a time when some portion of the population rejects plenty of other health-related expertise, like calls for vaccinations.
Morris, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, was born in 1910 and grew up poor in Glasgow. He died in 2009—when, as he apparently liked to say, he was ninety-nine and a half. It might be relevant that Morris paid attention to his own research, swimming, jogging, and cycling into old age. But he does not seem to have viewed fitness as an outward sign of individual worth, or to have treated good health as a state independent of its social determinants.
Friedman also introduces us to Judi Sheppard Missett—“a lanky dancer from Iowa with permed blond hair and a megawatt smile”—who, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, developed Jazzercise, the peppy aerobic workout set to music, and became a Lycra-clad multimillionaire in the process. The popularity of Jazzercise and its successors, including Jane Fonda’s lucrative exercise tapes, “created a greater appreciation for women’s physicality and strength,” Friedman observes.
Playful exercise is the friggin' best! Roll around, get dirty, get loud, have fun! It's effective and sustainable and you'll be happy you did it.
My MO: Age 11: Jumps on football, screws ankle. Age 21: Operation. 2 months in plaster. R calf like a chicken's, walking with stick. Physio - I vow 'Up with this I will not put.' = Walking, running OK (but ankle not 100%) Not 'fun' but I know how to do it.
16000 steps every day keep the doctor away. That‘s about 12 km for me and if I do powerwalking it will be 2 hours. Somewhere in the future. I am a turtle and manage only 5,5 max/hour. So it is also a question of having the time. But the steps at home count, too.
here are my naked photos