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[growler_south]

I have been thwacked round the head by the Dude, WTF are you thinking? stick, and now appreciate that my post regarding fitness and gym-going has come across as being smugly superior to or disparaging towards people who enjoy going to the gym.

I got a little carried away, distracted from the original intention of the post, especially in the comments, and I apologise to people I offended.

My personal view, based on my personal experience of living in my current meatsack, is that fitness is largely irrelevant. The idea of spending quantities of time, energy and money on the pursuit of happiness through increased fitness is incomprehensible- I have no problems just being happy.

Others have different values. Others have different reasons for needing or desiring increased fitness. Those reasons are part of their path and are just as valid a learning experience as anything in my own path. In presuming to judge others I only succeed in betraying my own values.

Comments

[gryphons-hole.livejournal.com]

I do prefer my fitness to come for activities outside of a gym. The driving and schedule and separate-ness of it is too much strain on my life. The social environment is too overwhelming for this hyperactive ADD boy to manage.

The gods-awful job at the bindery has been the best thing that ever happened for my physical health.

I thought the comments were perhaps a bit off for your normal approach, but I took no offense.

[pa747sp.livejournal.com]

I go to the gym often.

I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. Fitness is a treadmill (please excuse the pun). It is not something to be acheived and then moved on from. Once you are fit you have to keep at it, and there is a a big element of fear of losing it.

I stand by my comments also - fitness could easily be achevied without ever lifting a single weight. Gyms are as much about wanting to look good, and all that entails, as being fit. And there are some people outside the gym who are a damn sight fitter than those muscle-bound people inside.

[pa747sp.livejournal.com]

A further comment. Your taste in men is such that you are probably not looking for a sculpted, shiny, insectoid man. THerefore that informs your feelings about your own body. If you were looking for a shiny man, maybe you would be more likely to find yourself in a gym

[querrelle.livejournal.com]

A big pile of 34" waist jeans that I can no longer fit into is motivation enough for me.