Our bodies are meant to move. We are supposed to move and do various activities in our lives. This is how we have evolved. Of course I agree that humans kept on developing, worked on refining lives by inventing stuff, we kept on adding various mechanical and automatic utilities to make our lives easier.
Some of the technological advancements are good for various needs and makes living better. Like transport vehicles, Elevator and escalators, we have different kinds of tools at our houses to help us with various domestic tasks, we have electronic devices that lets us talk and watch content in real time, we don’t need to move out of our houses to eat food, we don’t need to stand in queues to watch a movie.
At the same time we also eliminated some basic movements in our lives by introducing tools in the name of luxury. Like we take showers instead of using mug and bucket to bath – Here we avoid bending and stopped basic movement of deadlifting, we use western toilets instead of India toilets – Here avoid squat position which is considered to be king of exercises in strength training. We even use a lift to go to a gym which could be even in 1st floor. I wonder how many of us can clean our entire back just by using our hands while taking bath, by doing this we are keeping our shoulder flexibility healthy – For this purpose we use back scrubs with long handles and avoid to stretch our shoulders and elbows backwards
Everything is just a click away and we don’t need to spend any physical or mental energy to attain anything in our daily lives. We need everything easy and quick these days. We don’t give a damn about of future selves and our wellbeing in future.
Yes people were civilized and were using different means of convenience tools even 60 to 70 years back. But the trends we are experiencing now are a total alien stuff to the people of that generation. There is no way to vent out the extra energy, we are not meeting the expectations of our evolutionary mind. This results in a lot of pent up energy physically and mentally with converts in to some unwanted forms – physically it manifests in the form of fat, toxins, metabolic diseases and disorders – mentally it shows up in the form of anxiety, stress, depression, brain fog etc.,
Hence, we need to put conscious effort to get the daily dose of physical movement and exercise for our overall well being.
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