Fitness Exercise Rewards

Fitness Exercise Rewards.

Fitness is not about certain physical skills but the ability to withstand the emergency demands of everyday living.

Usually a fitness enthusiast could easily expect to survive a sprint for the bus or a bout of early morning driveway shoveling.

We sleep better, think better, digest better and feel better when we are in a good fitness shape. We have more confidence too when we are in great fitness shape.

People who are in great fitness shape always looks better because they are in good healthy state.

Not only do fit people have fun and gain satisfaction from their skills—they look good. Vanity and pride sometimes are not regarded as nice. But they play a tremendously important and beneficial role in our society.

They stimulate us to study more, work harder, give more freely, and look better. There are many ways to put a best foot forward. A clean, crisp, neat, trim appearance is one. Men want to appear more manly and women more feminine.

This is part of human nature. Looking better is fun. Narcissism can be over done and often is. But we are not concerned with Muscle Beach. A little bit of honest pride in one's clothes, haircut, fingernails, and figure is socially acceptable.

We tend to spend time and money on our appearance, yet pretend that we do not care.

Nonsense! This is not an admission of a crime. Why not look better ? And what easier or more economical way than through fitness exercises ?

Sports activities do have an effect on ego.

G. Hambridge in his book Time to Live: Adventures in the Use of Leisure succinctly summarized this as follows :

The experience of the spectator is mild compared with that of the player, which is the reason games should be played, not watched from a grandstand.

At the risk of uttering a blasphemy, I wish to remark that catching a fast ping-pong ball and returning it with precision gives a pleasure not so far removed from that a painter feels when he makes a good stroke with his brush on canvas.

That is one of the reasons why athletic games are so valuable for those of middle age and beyond.

The game not only keeps the body supple and in good shape which, after all, calisthenics would do; it subtly flatters the ego with a sense of mastering new and difficult things.

All of us need that kind of flattery on occasion. We get it in games no matter how modest the skill required.

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