What fun!
That's right.
Exercise is fun!
That includes the 5K shakedown run I did today in Farmville.
The Porta-johns you see are for tomorrow's half marathon on the High Bridge Trail. I'll miss the race this year since I'll be spending the day in airports!
Then there was my workout at the Y this morning.
What fun! I know, I know. It looks like I'm working. But I'm not. I am playing.
The United States is 37th in life expectancy for men over 40. Play and games and sports and races offer an alternative. Obviously, not every American male has gotten the memo. The concept of "preventative medicine" is barely known where I live (the rural South). Doctors know too much about disease and two little about exercise physiology. Sad!
Attention, America! If you do not exercise your body, it disintegrates. Exercise pays off, and it pays off today, not just tomorrow. And the high that you get from exercising is legally obtained. How great is that?
Chesterton once said that you should never do anything merely because "it's good for you." None of us is inclined to do something just because it's good for us. Exercise is all about fun. About playing. The activity exists in and for itself.
The bottom line?
What we do must be fun or else we won't do it.
We should exercise not because it's practical but because it's not.
Play is the key!
Finally -- back to doing chin ups! Woohoo!