Modern lifestyle not conducive to staying physically fit

BY ROBERT HORZEPA Correspondent

Traditional physical culturist and certified personal trainer Bob Horzepa blends physical fitness, nutrition and self-defense training to help his students achieve their goals. We all want to look good and feel great, no matter who we are, and whatever our age.

To accomplish our goals, we join health clubs, go on diets, consume miracle weight-loss supplements, consider performance enhancing drugs, purchase 90- day DVD workouts, and even resort to surgery.

In the end, the results are usually less than expected, and we experience disappointment and a loss of motivation.

This can be avoided by viewing your fitness and nutrition needs from natures perspective and not the perspectives of Madison Avenue and the national media.

Although we often dont care to admit it, we are all simply mammals, genetically programmed by nature.

Human beings began as hunter/gatherers, progressed into agriculture, then on to the Industrial Revolution, and to the hightechnology age in which we now live.

These changes have taken place over a very short period of time from an evolutionary standpoint, and genetically, we remain the same hunter/gatherers that we started out as a few million years ago.

Man no longer hunts mastodons and giant elk, and women no longer dig roots and gather berries, but our genes keep signaling us to do so, and our bodies are equipped to meet those challenges on a daily basis.

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Nature’s way: Sensible fitness and nutrition