I was driving to work. Along the side of the road was a health nut riding his bike to work. I have always wondered if these people sweat and if the people that work with them enjoy being around them all day, but that is a matter for another day. What I noticed was that he had both knees swathed with ace bandages. You see this kind of thing all the time. Athletic types seem to need to wrap their joints. This made my wonder, “If riding the bike is supposed to be healthy, why is he wrapping his knees? Is it necessary or does he think it adds to the “cool” factor?
You may not be reading the same stuff I read but everywhere people are telling us we need more exercise or we need to do this or that to be healthy. Okay. Then why do they all come with the caveat to talk to our doctor before we begin the regime? Is it healthy or not? Most of the time when I ask doctors questions like this they puff and blow but it becomes clear that they don’t have a clue either. I noticed this when I started asking about walking for health. How fast should you walk? What distance should you cover? Does it need to be every day? You get different answers from different doctors and even from the same doctor on different visits.
Let’s face it, there are no definitive answers to our quest for certainly. Often we just have to get active and see what the results are. We are all different. Most people are not effected by salting their french fries. Some have their blood pressure shoot up. Which are you? Your doctor doesn’t know any more than you do. Experiment and find out. If you have the kind of health problems that would require talking to your doctor before you ride a bicycle, I would suggest that you already know it. If you don’t already know it the doctor’s advice won’t be understood either.
Oh, and be reminded that I am not a doctor or health care professional. My opinions are for entertainment only and are not offered as a guarantee of success. Or something like that.
Whatever happened to common sense?
homo unius libri
I've often wondered why my blubbery self is still around, while some skinny classmates of yore are dead and gone. Go figure!
ReplyDeleteIt must be the vigorous exercise of your fingers as you write and post. It keeps the blood pumping the the heart healthy. I sense a book in this. "Blogging for Health" instead of jogging. It should be a national best seller.
ReplyDeleteOf course it could be that God made us all unique individuals and not statistical norms.
Spock would say, "Live long and prosper." I will go with the apostle Paul:
Grace and peace.