Is fitness a healthy lifestyle, or is it a self-destructive behavior? Why do the older generation think that fitness is a deformed body?
Fitness refers to an activity that improves physical fitness, enhances physical fitness, shapes a beautiful body, prevents and treats diseases, delays aging, and improves the quality of life through planned, purposeful and regular physical exercise. There are many benefits of fitness, such as:
Fitness can enhance cardiopulmonary fitness, lower blood pressure, and prevent cardiovascular disease.
Fitness can increase muscle strength, improve bone density, and prevent osteoporosis and fractures.
Fitness can regulate endocrine, balance blood sugar, and prevent diabetes and obesity.
Fitness can promote blood circulation, increase immunity, and fight infections and cancer.
Fitness can improve sleep quality, relieve stress, and boost mood and self-confidence.
Fitness can shape a beautiful body, increase attractiveness, and improve social and professional competitiveness.
The benefits of fitness are obvious to all, but why do some older generations think that the body is deformed, why do they object to young people going to the gym, and what are the reasons behind this?
In fact, the older generation's views on fitness are mainly influenced by the following aspects:
1. Cultural differences
The older generation lived in an era of material scarcity, and their aesthetic concept was to be plump as beautiful and thin as ugly. They believe that muscular people are not well fed, uneducated, and untemperamental. They prefer the image of being suave, polite, and personable. Today's young people live in an era of material abundance, and their aesthetic concept is to be healthy and ugly. They believe that muscular people are self-disciplined, energetic, and charismatic. They prefer the image of being strong, powerful, sunny, confident, and energetic. This has created a cultural difference between the two generations, resulting in the older generation not being able to understand and accept the fitness philosophy and fitness effects of young people.
2. Misleading information
The older generation lacks scientific fitness knowledge, and they often learn about fitness through unreliable information channels, such as television, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, etc. They are susceptible to being misled by exaggerated, one-sided, misinformation, such as:
Fitness can cause kidney failure is a wrong view, fitness itself does not cause kidney failure, only when the muscle damage is severe, causing a large amount of myoglobin to enter the bloodstream, causing excessive burden on the kidneys, it is possible to cause kidney failure. This is very rare and can only occur if you exercise at extreme intensity, or if you don't have a proper diet and hydration, or if you have other kidney disease. Normal fitness, as long as it is moderate, reasonable and scientific, will not cause any damage to the kidneys.
It is an exaggerated belief that fitness leads to a decrease in sexual function, and fitness itself does not lead to a decrease in sexual function, but rather increases sexual function. Fitness can increase blood circulation, improve blood supply to the reproductive organs, increase the secretion of sex hormones, and enhance libido and sexual performance. Fitness can also increase self-confidence, improve mental state, and increase sexual attractiveness. It is only when the body is overworked, causing excessive fatigue, or if some drugs, such as steroids, are abused, that sexual function may be affected. Normal fitness, as long as you pay attention to moderation, reasonableness, and science, can improve sexual function.
Fitness can lead to deformity is a one-sided view, fitness itself does not lead to deformity, only when fitness is unbalanced, resulting in overdevelopment of muscles in some parts and muscle atrophy in others, or abuse of some drugs, such as steroids, may lead to deformity. Normal fitness, as long as you pay attention to balance, reasonableness, and science, can shape a beautiful body.
This information misleads the older generation into believing that fitness is a harmful act, a self-destructive act, and an unworthy act.
3. The impact of current events
The older generation has been influenced by some current events that have given them some negative impressions of fitness, such as:
Gym chaos. In recent years, the development of gyms has been very rapid, but there have also been some chaos, such as:
(1) The service quality of the gym is not high, the equipment is old, the sanitary conditions are poor, and there are many potential safety hazards.
(2) The fees of the gym are not transparent, and there are some problems of forced consumption, bundled sales, and difficult refunds.
(3) The level of coaches in the gym is not high, and there are some unprofessional, irresponsible, and dishonest phenomena.
(4) The marketing methods of the gym are improper, and there are some problems of false publicity, misleading consumption and inducing consumption.
These chaos has caused the older generation to have some distrust, dissatisfaction, and reluctance to participate in the gym.
The older generation of people do not have a comprehensive understanding of fitness, they often equate fitness with muscle gain, thinking that fitness is to build a body of muscle, and ignore other aspects of fitness, such as:
Fitness in variety. Fitness is not only about building muscle, there are many other forms, such as aerobic exercise, flexibility training, balance training, functional training, etc. These forms can be selected, combined, and adjusted according to the individual's goals, preferences, physique, level, etc.
Fitness is a personalized activity, there is no fixed model, there is no unified standard, there is no absolute right or wrong. The purpose of fitness is to improve one's physical fitness, not to cater to the eyes of others or to meet the expectations of society. Fitness adaptability.
Fitness is not static, but it is necessary to constantly adjust, change, and progress according to the individual's situation. Fitness is a dynamic process that requires appropriate changes based on the individual's age, gender, physical condition, athletic ability, exercise effect, etc. Fitness is a self-challenging activity that needs to be reasonably arranged, executed, evaluated, and modified according to the individual's needs, goals, plans, feedback, etc. The meaning of fitness is to improve one's own quality of life, not to meet the requirements of others, or to pursue social recognition. The science of fitness.
Fitness is not arbitrary, but to follow certain principles, methods, techniques, and rules. Fitness is a regular activity, which needs to be scientifically controlled, distributed and combined according to the individual's physique, exercise amount, exercise intensity, exercise frequency, exercise time, exercise sequence, exercise interval, etc. Fitness is a skillful activity that requires correct guidance, teaching, correction, and optimization according to the individual's posture, movements, breathing, rhythm, range, speed, strength, etc.
The goal of fitness is to improve one's exercise efficiency, not to blindly increase the amount of exercise or pursue the limit of exercise. These misconceptions have led the older generation to have some prejudice against fitness, believing that fitness is a single, fixed, and random activity, rather than a diverse, adaptive, and scientific activity.
To sum up, the older generation's perception of fitness is mainly affected by cultural differences, misleading information, current events, fitness misunderstandings and other factors. They are not entirely right, nor are they entirely impartial. We should respect their views, but we should also use scientific knowledge and a rational attitude to guide, educate and change them.