Why do we push so hard? Why do we crank the intensity up to 11 and just leave it there? "Working out doesn't have to be so...intense"
You know what? It didn't. Unfortunately for many, it does now. The National Academy of Sports Medicine now says that the standard, accepted fitness guidelines are no longer adequate to get America fit. They may maintain the status quo of an increasingly obese and pre diabetic society, but they can't make it better.
"But I don't want to work so hard." Since when did we get to tell the dentist that we really don't like the way that root canal feels and that he should stop 'cuase we say so? We as a nation haven't been brushing and flossing. Now, on the whole, we've earned ourselves a mouth full of cavities and we have to pay the price for it. We have to do the hard work to get ourselves, our bodies out of this whole we've dug.
Checking out for 20 minutes on the treadmill doesn't cut it anymore. Sitting on the gym floor, watching TV and pumping out a couple of reps during the commercial break doesn't cut it any more. We've got to dig a little deeper. We've got to work a little harder. There isn't a gadget at Brookstone or a pill at GNC that'll make it any easier.
That's why we push so hard.
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