Everyone says that exercise is good. It is not even an exaggeration to say that every young person hopes to be a fitness expert. Exercise is associated with beauty, handsomeness, sunshine, positivity, a winner in life, and eight-pack abs. , gods and goddesses, sexy...these are linked together. On the other hand, there are words like fat, ugly, loser, lazy, poor self-control, etc. that make people want to die.
Look at the fitness topics on Zhihu, there are many similar to "What does it feel like to lose weight?" "How do people who are illiterate about exercise lose weight from scratch?" "What happened to those who love fitness?" hot topics. The respondents all had their own wonderful stories. They posted comparison photos, recounted their revolutionary family history, shared their fitness plans, and showed off their half marathon and full marathon experiences... All in all, watching it felt like watching a hot-blooded Japanese drama, in which the protagonist went from being an ugly duckling to someone else. I looked down on it, worked hard, and finally became a white swan, met a tall, rich, handsome or white swan, and the last one earned over ten thousand or even tens of thousands a month...
Regardless of whether it is true or false, even if it is true, I think it is true. There is no benefit in having too many articles like this. Anyone of a certain age should have experienced that it is almost impossible to change a habit that has been developed for many years with a moment of enthusiasm. What's more, fitness is - to be realistic - slow to achieve results, painful, and requires persistence. matter.
What’s even more frightening is that based on my experience, I know without investigation that there are quite a few friends who have suffered acute or even chronic ligament and joint injuries due to unscientific and eager sports. I myself once suffered from medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow) of the humerus that remains to this day because I ignored my body's signals and just worked hard.
These have a great relationship with our view of sports, and even our values ??and education. This is also the reason why I named this topic "For you who never exercise (non-serious thinking about exercise, education, wealth, and three views)", because these are all related. When it comes to exercise, in fact, what we mean That's life.
Back to the topic, what are we exercising for? Or, conversely, why do we have to exercise? One more question, if exercise is so good, why don’t people want to exercise? If this topic goes deeper, it will involve issues in biology, evolution, and anthropology. It will not be discussed here, but interested readers can use it as a thinking angle to ponder it for themselves. Here we will briefly discuss what the purpose of your exercise is.
I believe that most people’s first reaction after hearing this is “lose weight”, or “hope to have a better figure”, etc. We collectively call them “appearance schoolers”. Okay, so to be more specific, what aspects do you want to improve? So most girls will say "the waist is too thick" and "the legs are too thick". Boys, on the other hand, yearn for well-developed chest muscles. Recently, abdominal muscles are more popular. In short, just dress to look thinner and take off your clothes to look more muscular.
To put it bluntly, it is almost impossible for people with such goals to become bodybuilders. Because exercise may be the way to achieve your goals, but it's definitely the hardest way.
Take a girl as an example. Suppose you are 160cm tall, 110cm heavy, a little fat, and have a round face. Your goal is to lose 15 pounds. You first need to know what you are losing by losing 15 pounds. When a person eats a full meal and does not go to bed, he or she weighs almost 3-5 pounds more than when he is fasting and has a clean bowel movement. Therefore, you must weigh yourself on an empty stomach and a clean bowel movement.
Secondly, water content is also a highly variable error factor. Sweating more and drinking less water will also make you feel lighter. Therefore, weight loss itself is almost meaningless unless you can be honest and weigh yourself at a fixed time every day. I suggest getting up in the morning before going to the toilet and eating breakfast.
After excluding these two items, the real question comes. Let's take a multiple-choice question. Now you have two choices:
How would you choose?
You see, weight is a very unreliable indicator. Even if you achieve it, it doesn’t mean anything, because you may have sacrificed precious muscles and health, but of course you are still not beautiful.
There is a joke that if you have a pear-shaped figure, you thought that if you lose weight, you will become a Coke bottle shape, but after you lose weight, you will find that you are just a wilted pear.
A healthy body is a series of indicators that ultimately reflect the health of your body. The longing in our genes for the opposite sex with good figures is precisely the desire for a healthy and strong body. And many of us are blinded by the tree of "obesity" and cannot see the forest of poor health.
In other words, do you think you are just a little fat? No, your body may not be healthy at all, so you feel you have an ugly figure, but it all boils down to the simple answer of "I'm too fat."
I still remember that when I first entered the gym, I repeatedly emphasized to the coach that I didn’t have much dissatisfaction with myself, as long as I was healthy, and then I asked the coach: "Do you see where I need to practice more?" "Practice?"
The coach glanced at me: "I see you need to practice everywhere."
While formulating the fitness plan, I pointed to the posters of bodybuilding stars on the wall. "I don't want to be like that", the coach finally couldn't help but sneered:
"Don't worry, you can't be like that!"
As time goes by, My fitness knowledge is getting richer and richer. Whenever I think back to this conversation back then, I want to laugh. I was so young and naive back then.
Don’t rush for quick results, and regard “becoming a person with fitness habits” as the primary goal of exercise. As long as I continue to exercise every day, I will get better and better, rather than eager for quick results. , and then go back to the couch potato lifestyle.
Crossfit, also known as functional training, which has become popular in recent years, is a reflection and questioning of the purpose of traditional fitness training. Does using exercise to pursue bodybuilding deviate from the essence of exercise? Crossfit advocates that maintaining athletic ability and strengthening the body's motor functions are the fundamental purposes of exercise. Running faster and longer, lifting heavier weights, quick reflexes, and strong joints are the purpose of exercise itself.
My fitness plans are becoming more and more diverse and easier, and I am becoming more and more satisfied with the results of my fitness. I no longer pursue huge chest muscles or thick arms. On the contrary, I have become more and more aware of my physical condition. I know clearly what I should train at this stage, where my weak links are, and how I should train.
The personal trainer at the gym kept calling me to do physical tests and sell his personal training courses. I smiled and told him that it was not necessary, I knew my situation. This time, I'm sure no one knows me better than I do.
As I grow older, I gradually find my true fitness purpose in exercise and enjoy it. At the same time, I am also reflecting on the fundamental reasons that prevented me from falling in love with sports when I was young. I really wish I knew this when I was young, so I chose to write down these thoughts and share them with my friends on the road to sports.