Exercise... quick introduction of things to come...

Exercise and Fitness are extremely misunderstood.

There is an incredible amount of hype that surrounds the field making it extremely confusing to sort out what is true from what is deceptive marketing. (or just outright ignorance)

We must remember that there is no shortage of people willing to exploit people's fears about dying prematurely, and so since the days of the proverbial "snake oil*" salesmen and before... we continually look for someone to give us the magic potion that will help us live forever, whether it's the latest contraption, supplement or exercise routine, we open up our wallets willingly over and over again.

Probably as many people are looking for ways to "look good"...(see earlier post on "appearance vs. reality"), and of course there is no shortage of people willing to exploit that.

In future posts, what I will cover are:

-why 90% of what you hear about exercise is not only inaccurate but actually detrimental to your health and safety.
-why 95% of people will never look anything like the fitness models used in marketing no matter what they do.
-why the actual rewards of exercise while not as marketable are far more important.
-why overdoing exercise is something we get addicted to psychologically because we need to feel good about ourselves and impress other people, when most of what we do is unnecessary and detrimental.
-why so called "cardio" is based on inaccurate premises.
-why your exercise program should take less than an hour per week... (far less in most cases)
-why the continual achievement of goals in your exercise program will help build your character in ways that will cross over into every area of your life (your fitness program consisting of taking on and overcoming challenges and adversity is a miccrocosm of all of life)
-why health and fitness are NOT synonyms.
-why exercise per se is perceived by your body as a threat to its survival, and as such, your body seeks to protect you from this threat... so more is definitely not better.
-how proper exercise technology, like many technologies takes many years before it becomes mainstream, because of the resistance of existing misconceptions being so strong for so long. Most groundbreaking technologies from inception to mainstream, take as much as 20 years or more.

If you're impatient, check out the links of interest on the side... but look forward to hearing comments on this and other posts.

*note that the original fish oil came from sea snakes and was rich in Omega 3, so may well have been quite beneficial, but with the money being made, oil from other snakes was marketed with no similar benefits.