Do you think you unconsciously avoid exercise because you think working out is vain or too self focused or because you're afraid that it will pull you away from your family, your religion or everything else that is more important in your life?
I was listening to this killer interview yesterday with Kevin Vost author of Fit for Eternal Life. Vost is a psychologist, former bodybuilder, and former atheist who talked about how bodybuilding pulled him away from his Catholic roots.
The interviewer asked if health, fitness and religion even go together and brought up a great point about how people who are religious and very family oriented often believe that focusing on the body is vain and too self focused.
Vost addressed this by saying that the purpose of exercise is function vs. form, in other words you workout to be healthy and useful to those around you vs. just to look good and feel good about yourself. I'm all about functional exercise but had not given much thought to what he said about being useful to people other than my immediate family.
Do you ever think about how taking care of your body by exercising and eating healthy would make you more functional and give you the energy to help more people?
I'm guessing not a whole lot of people view exercise from this perspective which is maybe why so many people hate it so much.
