The classmate next to me seems to be in his thirties, but in fact he is in his forties. She can easily chop out a word, with a flat belly and full of energy. She said, "I practiced for more than three years, at least twice a week. You young people should practice more and stick to it! "
I felt the same way when I was chatting with a friend once. I don't know when it started, but I suddenly found that the body carried by our soul is being worn away bit by bit, and it is in an irreversible sub-health state at a young age. Our bodies always have an indescribable sense of heaviness. Back pain, cervical pain, headache, eye pain, jaw suddenly unable to open, poor immunity and so on are always bothering us.
In the past year, I worked in a private clinic, often dealing with doctors, writing popular science articles, interviewing patients' stories, and fighting migraine, plantar warts, temporomandibular joint disorders and other diseases that have plagued me for a long time with the help of doctors. This year, I have a new understanding of physical health care and health: sustainable development.
Maybe everyone has this experience. Go to the hospital, the doctor will prescribe medicine, and then it seems that you will casually say: Exercise more at ordinary times, as if "exercise" is a cure for all diseases. At first, I disagreed: we don't have heart disease and diabetes now. Isn't the only purpose of exercise to lose weight? There are so many things every day, how can you have time to exercise every day? In addition, you can't lose weight by exercising a little every day. ......
Until one day, a foreign general practitioner submitted an article about sports to us on the official account of WeChat. She told me: this is the idea I have always wanted to convey. What is the essential meaning of sports? It has nothing to do with losing weight, dopamine and coping with diseases, but the most essential relationship between exercise and the body.
After translating that article, I suddenly realized that sports is also a thing that needs to be viewed from the perspective of sustainable development. Exercise should become a natural habit of brushing your teeth and washing your face!
The doctor introduced the concept of "anti-vulnerability" mentioned in Nassim Taleb's Anti-vulnerability: Benefiting from Uncertainty, and pointed out for the first time that everything in the world can be classified into three categories: fragile systems; Robust system; Anti-fragile system (fragile; Robust; Fragile-resistant)
For example, glass is a fragile system, which will break when it falls; Diamonds and gems are solid systems that are not affected by external pressure; However, human muscles and bones belong to the anti-fragile system. The more they are exposed to stress, the stronger and more prosperous they will be. Without stress, they will become more vulnerable.
Exercise, whether it is strength training or stretching training, will bring stress to the body. We often hear that "abdominal muscle tearing" training is to tear and destroy muscles, so that the fibers of muscle groups are reversely generated and become strong.
A person who never exercises has been in a mild environment, and his bones will become fragile over time. After the bone mineral density decreases in the 40 s and 50 s, the probability of osteoporosis will increase greatly, so a slight injury will lead to a fracture. A person who has not stretched the tendon group is stiff and inflexible, and will be damaged if he is not careful.
Cultivating the habit of exercise is not for the short-term utilitarian goal of losing weight and shaping, but for maintaining vigorous physical strength and energy after 20 or 30 years, so as not to be broken at a touch. Exercise doesn't have to go to the gym and sweat like rain, and it doesn't have to be high-intensity exercise. Stick to the principle of small S tart, even if it's just going downstairs for 30 minutes or climbing stairs more every day, it's all exercise.
When we talk about exercise, we often think that this exercise (such as yoga and brisk walking) can't lose weight, but at most it will only make you a "soft fat man", so it's easy for us not to try this kind of exercise without short-term effect. However, if you can take a sustainable view of your exercise, don't think about whether today's exercise is useful or not, and insist on exercising 3-5 times a week. After ten years, your body will be tougher than those who don't exercise at all. In addition, I don't know if you have such an experience: when you put aside utilitarianism to do something, you are more persistent.
Some time ago, I have been doing a special topic on female menopause, and I got a close understanding of various common physical problems of menopausal women, which made me realize that only when I was young, I consciously protected and exercised my body, and when I was old, I could reduce the occurrence of diseases. Sedentary, bowing for a long time, pelvic floor muscle injury during pregnancy, staying up late, these health killers are secretly eating away at our bodies. Besides improving living habits, the only thing that can fight against it is exercise.
A few days ago, a friend of a physical therapist posted a circle of friends, which was a survey conducted by JACC, reminding people that people who sit for more than 8 hours a day (that is, we computer workers) can effectively reduce the risk of all-cause death as long as they exercise for more than 420 minutes a week. In other words, you should exercise 1 hour every day.
Therefore, brush your mobile phone 1 hour or watch 1 hour as little as possible, go out and move more, and consciously cultivate the habit of exercise! Let go of utilitarian goals, remember, you are full of energy and make waves after 30 years ~ ~ ~