Just some morning thoughts over coffee.
Exercise is a broad word. Even if we exercise our options and leave out the concepts of an exercise in writing, mathematics, or, gods forbid, logic, or futility, and stick to the physical, it's still a broad topic.
I first became interested in exercise as a skinny (yes I was) teenage boy, and pleaded with my father to get me a set of weights for Christmas. I looked at the pictures of Bruce Randall, Mr. Universe, and started lifting.
Exercise is work!
And, it's not magic, either. You don't exercise for a few weeks and look like Bruce... or, in some cases, a few years... decades?
So, I studied a little and learned, from various articles in muscle mags, that THAT form of exercise didn't do a lot for cardiovascular health, or, as they said back then, endurance... which didn't really hit me until a few years later when I first read "Aerobics" by Dr. Kenneth Cooper.
Of course, in the meantime, the U.S. Army introduced me to new levels and types of exercise, including the exercise of self discipline. They were VERY persuasive in that. However, I DID learn, as a result of this exercise, that I could do a lot more than I ever thought I could. That's another story. I'll exercise my option to tell that one later.
For me, over time, exercise became a much broader topic with a lot more to know and learn... still evolving... especially now that I'm OLD, and more interested in "senior" exercise.
Point here, is that when we begin to do things like "think", or "read", "write", or exercise our "opinions"... there's probably a lot more to learn than simply a few minutes of idle exercise in those areas to achieve some degree of understanding and "mastery"... one DAMN broad word.
Wonder whatever happened to Ol' Bruce...
Donovan Baldwin
