This question “Doesn't it seem a total waste of time for us to be debating about the best fat loss methods (and I admit - I'm also guilty of this), when we're pretty much failing as a profession to actually make much of a difference?” from Alwyn Cosgrove is telling. Browsing through fitness related websites illustrates how many different approaches and options there are when it comes to training and nutrition. For the person just starting out on their pursuit of a healthy lifestyle the huge amount of different approaches can be daunting. Good training advice and readily available exercise equipment isn’t the problem, so what is?
The issue to me is the perceived time and commitment to benefit ratio. If exercise is seen as too hard or complicated then it’s unlikely that sedentary people will take it up. How then do we help them up off the couch and down the healthy lifestyle path? So much of out time and effort is spent preaching to the converted and nitpicking over the various details. Wouldn’t we be better off just trying to convince everyone to just do something, anything?
Getting sedentary people to realize that exercise doesn’t have to be complicated and that eating a healthy diet is just as easy as eating an unhealthy diet is a big challenge. Until we meet this challenge obesity rates will unfortunately continue to rise.
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