Top 10 Fitness Commandments #10: It’s your Life.

Life should not be taken so seriously because eventually no one gets out of here alive! Yet in the process of life, we have a tendency of doing ourselves a disservice by ignoring what the universe may be presenting to us in the form of signs, symptoms, or scenarios.

In my professional experience, I have worked with many patients and clients who are young and healthy at one moment, only to see them a short time later after they have passed. I have also seen some of my patients and clients who have their health, only to ignore any effort to maintain it and simply work themselves into a mindset that they are old and nothing can be done to help them. Another population of patient/client I have seen are those that simply want to worry about their problems later. They have the health and the time to take care of a few smaller issues before they become big issues but they choose to put it off. By the time later comes, it is often too late to fix the small problem.

In fact, that one small problem ignored for the next 30 years, will likely comes along with a two, three, or more other problems. For example, if we consider the cardiovascular system. This is what is called a closed system and one that holds a key importance in facilitating our ability to do simple task such as walking up and downstairs, participating in daily living, and social activities. When we ignore this system and mistreat it with insuffient cardiovascular training, smoking of any kind, excessive dietary substances that increased pressure, we subject it to trauma that over time, increases our risk of cardiac and vascular disease, heart failure, stroke, or even sudden death. Other than sudden death, which usually presents as well, death, many of the other conditions come with second and third order effects. We can’t enjoy the activates that we once did the way we did, our independence will be called into question, the simple and private things such as ambulation, communication, urination, and defecation are not so simple and not so private.

This is just one example yet there is a profound importance to take advantage of life when you have it for we have but one shot and the question becomes how do you want life to look not just now but over the trajectory of time? It is your life and each and every one of us has a right to our health. It will require a personal investment.

Action Step:

Consider contemplating what life looks life right now and how you would like it to look in 50 years. Whatever that mental image is, work must be done now in order for that future version of yourself to be true.