Good Health Does Not Come From Good Looks

Here’s another fitness secret not many know about: there’s more than one way to be fit. The media promotes a very narrow range of what should be considered fit and healthy, but the true fact of the matter is that some of the most unhealthy-looking physiques around are some of the fittest and vice-versa.

That bodybuilder gracing the cover of that bodybuilding magazine? He or she might be slowly dying from within, on the inside, due to the lethal chemical cocktail of steroids and steroid-moderating drugs. By the same token, your elite runner who looks set to fall apart with a touch because he or she is just so skinny might also be unhealthy in ways not most immediately related to the chosen sport.

What I’m trying to say is that there are lots of ways of being healthy. It all depends on what your body is supposed to do – “do,” not merely “look like”. A nice physique may not be good for anything other than looking good according to the latest fashion trends, or it could be good for aerobic and/or anaerobic activity.

While genetics play a key role, they do not necessarily play the deciding one. We must all do what we can with what we are given, and a first step towards that wider goal is to recognize that there are lots of different kinds of good health. Just as there are lots of different types of intelligence, many various areas for a brain to be good at, there are lots of various types of health, many different areas for a body to be good for.

A body can be great for lifting heavy objects, for instance those employed in strongman competitions, or it may be great for acrobatic moves like the ones involved with ice-skating. And yes, there is even a physique that is fine-tuned for sedentary tasks like sitting! Indeed, in German there is even a phrase for this talent: a physically restless person unable to sit still for prolonged periods of time, such as that involved with scholarship, is said to have no “Sitzfleisch.”

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