{"id":15768,"date":"2016-04-25T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:41:52","slug":"need-a-no-excuse-approach-to-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/need-a-no-excuse-approach-to-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a \u2018No Excuse\u2019 Approach To Exercise?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do the following items have in common?
\nAlarm, Sunscreen, Exercise, Notes, Medication, Advice…<\/p>\n

The answer is that they only work if you use them.\u00a0 Now if you are using an alarm you would insist that it has a mechanism that operates, whether it needs batteries or a wind-up.\u00a0 For sunscreen it must have SPF.\u00a0 For notes, they only work if you later read them and medication or advice you either take them or you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Exercise is an interesting one.\u00a0 We know that nearly all experts agree on at least the proposition that exercise works only if you do it.\u00a0 Some few are blessed. They love their exercise\u2026 some maybe too much.\u00a0 We all know someone who runs 25 miles per week\u2026 REALLY?\u00a0 Just give me an exercise that I don\u2019t hate that will actually be good for me.\u00a0 Make it something that doesn\u2019t require an hour of make-up and a parade at a gym. Don\u2019t make me have to drive there or share the equipment and wipe it down. Give me something that won\u2019t grind my joints to dust.\u00a0 Make it short.\u00a0 Give me some music that does half of the work for me.\u00a0 Is there anything like that available?\u00a0 No membership, no seminar and NO: ” how do I work the darn machine?!”<\/p>\n

I know I have to do exercise.\u00a0 Pick your illness.\u00a0 The miracle cure for:<\/p>\n

Heart disease<\/a> – exercise
\nDiabetes<\/a> – exercise
\nDepression & anxiety – exercise
\nTennis elbow – exercise
\nHiccups – exercise<\/p>\n

“Doctors have long focused on the treatment of disease. Now we have a manual that highlights a means of prevention. ” \u2014Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent, CNN<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In his book, The Exercise Cure<\/em>, Jordan Metzl<\/a> ponders:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if there were a drug to treat every illness, across all body systems, proven potent against heart disease, depression, arthritis, PMS and erectile dysfunction \u2015 even in chronic diseases such as asthma, dementia, and certain types of cancer<\/a>? What if it had no side effects, was completely free, readily available, and worked for\u00a0everyone<\/em>? Every single person who took it decreased her risk of premature death and raised his quality of life. Would you want it?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Center for Disease control writes:<\/p>\n