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A mistake I used to make in my youth was to think there was something enlightened about eating in moderation, making better food choices and training vigorously.
I really used to believe this is a better way to live.
I wouldn’t proselytise my choices. But I’ve definitely had relationships fall apart over differences in lifestyle.
And I quickly realised all of this feels optional to most of society.
People need to value physical capacity to exert themselves and health sans medication to see the value in the choices I felt were obvious.
And geography didn’t make a difference.
I saw friends and family who had umpteen choices to eat better and train hard make the same lazy, silly (in my opinion) choices that I saw friends and family in the sub-continent making. So it was clearly cultural (not exclusive to ‘our’ culture).
And I don’t expect it to be intuitive or obvious to anyone. So why spend any time or energy convincing them. They’ll see the light when or if they want to. Or not.
Maybe how I live strikes them as monotonous, dreary or unfulfilled. It’s not how they want to spend their time and energy.
Some of these choices or perspectives about fitness, wellness and health feel incredibly ingrained or entrenched much like religious beliefs, ideas about language, patriotism, money, politics etc. Two people see the same situation or choices and have radically different takes on it.
But for me my choice to eat better and train hard are non-negotiable. I don’t do it for longevity, avoiding disease or sport.
I do it simply for the capacities and lifestyle it enables right here and right now. I value those the way some people value religious beliefs or their work.
I do try to get my clients who pay me to buy into it. That’s my job.
My wife is more of a heretic for this cause than I am. And my daughter has no choice but to grow up around trapbars, ladder squats, eggs and protein shakes.