I think everybody here knows how I am about fitness. And while I know there are exceptions to everything, in the case of physical fitness, those exceptions are limited to physical handicaps, but only to a certain degree, even paraplegics can exercise. Even the morbidly obese can exercise. Low metabolism is no excuse because the human body adjusts its metabolism to output or lack of it, it can be altered and increased, but that is up to the individual to do. I’ve said it here before, there is no little magic pill, there is no diet, there is nothing other than common sense and exercise that will get you fit and keep you there. Diets, and particularly the low carb diet, are the biggest rip-off bunch of hooey there is. NOTHING, and I mean absolutely NOTHING, is a substitute for someone getting off there fat lazy butt and taking matters into there own hands and exercising.
You don’t need to spend 2 hours at a gym 4-5 days a week, brisk walking 20 minutes a day 5 days a weeks coupled to a sensible diet (which INCLUDES complex carbs) will do wonders for anyone, and what’s more, a regimen as simple as that is free. For myself, I have had 2 stomach surgeries, I have a semi artificial right knee that it took 3 surgeries to rebuild, and chronic low back problems due to a deteriorating vertebrae. None of this stops me from training this 46 year old body and keeping it in shape, I want to be able to ride until my legs fall off. I don’t buy excuses because I don’t feel very many of them are valid, if you want to slowly kill yourself with inactivity, it is your choice, but it is a choice, I run a business and have numerous other voluntary commitments that take inordinate amounts of time. But I also take time for myself, I go to the gym at 5 .A.M because it is where I can make time for training, I do not want to be old before my time and I have instilled this in my family. I want to be there for them, my 18 year old daughter can’t keep up with me on a major hill climb on my mountain bike, and she trains just to try. Am I special? No, I made a choice; just like so many fat out of shape people make a choice, the wrong one.
