Exercise Will Kill You.

The common disclaimer to “consult with your doctor before beginning” any exercise program is admittedly a CYA (cover your ass) move to protect against idiots’ lawsuits, but it more strongly and perniciously sends the message that exercise is inherently dangerous, hazardous to your well-being, indeed, to your very existence.

The most interesting part of that caution is that doctors don’t know shit about exercise—or healthful living for that matter. 95% of Doctors’ training is all about making sick or injured people better. Doctors’ education and training has little—if any—emphasis on remaining healthy and avoiding illness and injury.

I reject people’s backhanded compliment that I “look good” for my “age,” because I look good, or great, for any age. I have eyes. These eyes look around and see few 20 year olds who are in better shape than I am, much less other 70-year-olds. This is especially evident in doctors’ waiting rooms. In fact I have only been in a doctor’s waiting room once in the past two decades where another exceedingly fit person, who may or may not have been Jason Mamoa, was waiting.

Due to my rare conditioning and the fact I never smoked, barely experimented with drugs back in my 20s, and drink very sparingly, one might think one of the dozens of doctors and med techs I’ve seen in the last 20 years might notice the fine results of those things. They don’t—or if they do they’ve remained conspicuously silent. This fits in with my realization that the majority of people are strangely disconnected from their own bodies, let alone anyone else’s.

I don’t need acknowledgements from others. My dedication to a healthful lifestyle pays off in spades every day and the results are plainly visible both in my case and in the majority of those people who chose the opposite lifestyle. The take-away is that only a small minority of doctors and medical professionals themselves lead a healthy lifestyle, so don’t be depending too strongly on them to be the last word when it comes to advice on exercise or healthful living.

With few exceptions, they’ve got no idea.