Sometimes We Need A Kick In The Ass To Get Us To The Gym:

Relatively few people wish to engage in any physical fitness regimen. To them, physical exertion is not appealing.

Everyone has the right to do, or not do, what makes them happy, but no one has the right to demand that others accommodate the fallout from their poor decisions.

 Additionally, investing time and dedication in writing and rehearsing a script—as so many do—from which to testify one’s decision to not engage in exercise or eat healthfully is poor choice of one’s time and resources.

There are hundreds of Youtube videos showing people having wheelchairs strapped to their bodies performing pullups, people missing arms or legs—or both—working out in gyms, people grievously wounded in battle participating in organized sports. Some problems with injury or illness as described here, minor in comparison, may not preclude the writers' swimming, doing pullups, chinups, crunches, pushups or a whole host of muscle strengthening, body transforming, self-empowering physical activity.

One revealing response from people in my experience is the scoffing “What are you trying to do, live forever?” as if they perceive no value in extending one’s healthy years, mobility, strength, energy, stamina and sex life.

Indeed the physical manifestations of destructive choices we observe in our older friends and relatives— smoking, drinking, pain pill popping, obesity, their disinterest in rehabilitating fixable injuries—provide an example to the rest of us that our chosen path of pursuing physical fitness is the wiser one.