29 August

I think the "fitness" myth is one of the toughest to crack. But it's starting to unravel. Not only is 'fit' probably a meaningless idea - we can be fit-to-do certain things, but there's such probably no such thing as being 'fit' generally - but all the exercise so many people are doing to try to 'keep fit' is probably doing untold damage to their bodies, as this cardiologist explains well. Exercise is huge physical forces, applied to your body. It doesn't make you lose weight, and those forces do real damage. What else would we expect? You flog the body with huge forces, it will damage it. Given the average little old lady can put almost a tonne of force on their body doing something as simple as hopping up out of a chair, you can imagine how enormous the forces are once gym equipment and other exercise gets involved.