subject: Are You Doing Self Care Body Maintenance? [print this page] It is ironic isn't it that we take our health and wellness for granted until we get sick. We had no time for exercise or self care but suddenly we can be sick, injured and out of commission for weeks and even months. Suddenly we have had to make time for illness when we are forced to.
But what if the illness or injury was serious - like really serious? Would we have even made the connection between our illness or injury and our lack of self maintenance as the years passed us by? We rush off to the doctor and expect to be fixed up and on our way again. Like it is not our problem at all.
But why would anyone wait to be forced to take time out because of sickness or injury? Wouldn't it be a better plan to treat the doctor as the breakdown service and take responsibility for the maintenance ourselves and avoid it happening at all?
After all when we think about the future we want for ourselves and all we hope to do in all areas of our life. Is good health not essential for all of these hopes and dreams? If we lose our good health, how can we expect to take care of business, family and other interests and goals?
Our future has to mean more than taking this risk. If fifty percent of the world's population has at least one chronic 'lifestyle' disease and many have multiple conditions is this not a bit like playing Russian roulette with our health?
We have all of these excuses why we cannot make time two or three times each week for a proper exercise program that contains mostly strength training exercise. "I'm too busy right now", or "After the holidays", or here's a good one "When the kids are at school". When will health become a priority - weeks, months years away, when the kids leave home or when you retire?
But what if it is too late, and some dreaded illness that has been smouldering away for the last twenty years is about to show itself? Little use running off to the doctor then. Nasty 'lifestyle' diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes are not curable by any doctor or any drug. When the human body has arrived at this broken down state at best the symptoms can be managed but leave the victim with half a life.
Don't wait till this happens, get yourself down to your local gym and get started on your strength training program. It will give your muscular system the work it needs to stay healthy. Our bodies were made to be active - very active and this movement is necessary to stimulate 'growth and repair' hormones that stop the body from decaying and deteriorating well before it needs too.
You will have so much more to look forward too as with the extra energy and vitality that 'being strong and fit' provides, you will be a more productive person, not just at work, but in all areas of your life. When you feel and look great, you will also be a happier and more vibrant person, you will be more fun to be with, and you will have more to give to those you care about.
