Tuesday, July 3. 2007Disillusioned with the dominant fitness culture?We face huge overlying problems that are a lot more serious than superficial issues of vanity. Serious stuff! Meanwhile in the crazy world of "health and fitness," any joker capable of memorization can become a nutritionist. Roly-poly, obese people, people who often look sickly and constipated, people who are the very personification of non-healthy nutrition, can and do obtain certifications and become experts, dispensing erroneous, reflected knowledge to an unsuspecting public. These people know nothing about human nutrition. We are living in a jumbled world: definitions are skewed; priorities are not adequately addressed, much less gone into with the subtle and detailed analysis they need and deserve. Modern health and fitness advice should be called McHealth and McFitness! 
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That's right! People who look non-healthy, even doctors,tell you what is right and what is not. I always thought if they look so bad how can they help me to improve my health? This is why i follow your suggestions, you are the livin proof what you say really works...and me too!!!
I completely agree with you Ori. Vanity and arrogance has largely given way to what we see as the fitness movement of today; unhealthy people giving other’s advice on a perpetually sliding scale of what is good and what is not. Are they pushing the latest stimulant? Are they hocking the latest pharmaceutical? You can never be sure!
The idea of being physical for the sake of challenge and health has given way to gadgetry and false meaning. The Running Room chain is a case in point – with every monthly magazine I receive, I am constantly bombarded with a list of causes to run for. While noble to some, I prefer the romanticism of trial, physical exertion and pushing my body to its absolute limit.
Disillusioned doesn’t even begin to describe my feelings for the fitness world at this point – I’ve left it for dead and taken to my own path of physical enlightenment. I don’t run because I should and I don’t lift because I have to; I do these things because I want to and because my life without them would be infinitely less satisfying.
I have a useful strategy when some McHealth or McFitness type rolls up on me with some unsolicited advice, like you shouldn't lift without a belt, for example.
I'll listen to their dispensation and pick the main point they wish to make. I will then ask 3 questions deep going from specific to even more specific. If they can answer and back it up we can have a conversation, otherwise it is just their uniformed opinion and the conversation has just ended.
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