Old pill

Smooth humming conditioner. Quiet monitor flickering in the cardio zone. The soothing sway of the handle of the block simulator. Early July. Fitness died ... The patriarchal silence of the simulator is violated only by the monotonous bu-bu of the younger son of the duty administrator. Putting his head on the roller of the leg simulator, he studies Krylov's fables from an endless list of books for the summer:

The hassle of the monkey is full of mouth:
She’ll carry the block
Now and then, this will embrace him,
It will drag and roll;
Sweat pours from the poor thing by the river;
And finally she, panting, forcibly breathes ...

Where does fitness go?

Painfully familiar picture painted classic! Just a month ago, crowds of anthropoids turned iron, sweated, lost weight, pumped muscles. And now they have disappeared ... And it is understandable why!

By and large, there are few visible successes in fitness. Percent of 50 athletes belong to the so-called hard gainers. These are those that adapt to physical activity without changing plastically. That is, their muscles do not grow, the fat layer does not go away. The hardgeiner body is trickier, it is being rebuilt logistically. Improves blood circulation, accelerates the production of enzymes, chooses rational motor stereotypes. He does not need to rebuild the composition of the body, it will cope with the load of what is. Therefore, most visitors to fitness clubs, like that literary monkey, "do not hear praises from anyone." And if you generalize and philosophize amateurishly, it turns out that visitors to fitness clubs, like everyone else, get old, get sick, and, in the end, die. Mortality among visitors to fitness clubs is 100%! As, however, among the entire human population.

Hence, Martyshkin concluded: “You work a lot, but there is no benefit in this.” And the gyms are empty. Heated street saunas. Murmuring, passing the purification system, the already crystal clear basin water. But the conclusion is really a monkey!

A reasonable person understands that the difference between a trained and untrained person is invisible if you are lying on a sofa. And in accounting does not affect, and driving a car is not visible. You can wash clothes in a modern unit with the function of ozonation, squeezing, drying (and soon, probably, folding them on shelves). And it will be equally easy for the master of sports in gymnastics and the disabled person of the second group for the general disease. The dust-collecting robot puffs merrily under its feet with embossed quadriceps and under jelly-like sausages. Everyone is able to understand that a disease has come. But in order to notice that health is becoming less, you will need to go up to the fifth floor without an elevator. And, having risen, he suddenly realized that he flew like a wing a couple of years ago, stepping over a step, and now on the third floor you unbutton your collar and frantically cling to the railing.

Movement is life

In fact, fitness is not a monkey or even Sisyphus labor. Although, no doubt, the image of King Corinth, resisting the pressure of a huge boulder, is perceived more solidly than a monkey with a block.

In my opinion, fitness is a resistance to some mortal attraction of the cemetery fence. The very one to which we are attached by tight rubber ropes. So that life does not end too quickly, we are forced to strain and walk. To walk away from a dull vale, although outwardly we are still marking time. With age, attraction increases. You have to walk faster and harder to apply more. If you managed to move at least a centimeter forward, the rope turns into a stretched string. We are ready to defeat age: to become stronger, younger. But suddenly…

Failure of the stop crane

Great holiday - summer! A person stops abruptly and, treated with an all-inclusive system, heaps onto a deck chair. Freed from volitional and physical efforts, tightly stretched ties work. And they unite the unfortunate person from a deck chair with an unlimited "Bloody Mary" in their hands precisely to the cemetery fence or to the hospital bed. Perhaps the colors in my picture are too thick. And a three-month idleness will only lead to a slight rollback. Yes, this is possible if you are 28-35 years old. And then, provided that the achievements were not so hot and the pause was not more than 2 months.

For forty years, the consequences of prolonged inaction will be tragic. As well as for younger, but highly trained individuals whose ropes of life and health were stretched too tightly. In a more scientific language, the lack of sufficient activity will turn on the body's aging regime - the decay of cellular structures will begin to significantly exceed their construction. That same rubber rope suddenly loses its elasticity, turns into an ordinary rope, which will be shortened day after day methodically. And no crazy fluttering, swallowing health pills and wearing miracle bracelets will not fix anything. In this place, many will begin to make excuses. They de not only lie, absorbing endless buffet dishes. They are swimming. Play the ball. Shake the body on the dance floor. And some did not go anywhere at all and hold on tightly to life with a shovel and a garden rake.

Launching an Aging Program

Life and death are serious business. And the subjective assessment of their workaholism by the degree of fatigue and irritability will not work here. Do you want to be sure that you are moving enough to stay in the amazing life phase of your fortieth birthday or thirtieth birthday or any other “anniversary”? You will have to compare your energy consumption with the amount of work that needs to be done so that the aging program does not turn on.

3000 kcal! This is how much people should spend per day so that the cell structures do not turn on the countdown timer. This includes all expenses: maintaining the vital systems of the body (this is approximately 1200 kcal), and the cost of daily hygiene activity (approximately 600 kcal). And the 400 kcal that we spend for 8 hours, in the sweat of our faces moving the pointer of a computer mouse on the screen. The consumable part could have been larger if not for the very units and robots. Which, on the one hand, make it so easy, and on the other, as it turned out, shorten our lives.

Two hours in the gym - and you are immortal!

Only 800 kcal left. They should be spent on physical labor. Useful either to the body or to society. This corresponds to 3 hours of work in the garden or two hours of daily training in the gym! It remains to calculate their scanty efforts to maintain health and youth. To cry, get up from a chaise lounge and go on a lesson in water aerobics. Or, at worst, beg a shovel from Turkish service staff and take off to ennoble the local columbaria. At the same time, we, the trainers who were left without work and money, will begin to smile when we hear on the news how drunk Russian tourists loosened and spud an innocent palm, justified by the vital need for physical activity.