IT MAY be a radical idea but proven long ago that “under exercise causes a large number of illnesses.” Considering its effects President John F. Kennedy in 1960 wrote in Sports Illustrated “The harsh fact of the matter is that there is an increasingly large number of young Americans who are neglecting their bodies-whose physical fitness is not what it should be- who are getting soft”.
Even today, the disease of inactivity is with us. The advancement of technology likens a plague that takes most of the time and effort of mostly the young and middle aged youth mostly for convenience. These are all mechanisms of the twentieth century life that either robs us of activity or fatten us, and where the result is an overwhelming “hypokinetic disease” or the disease of inactivity.
The results of habitual inactivity or underexercise are diseases and disorders such as ulcers, headaches, insomnia, musculoskeletal deficiencies like lower back pain. It also causes heart disease, and nervous disorders, obesity, etc.
Convenience is a general thinking of individuals when you talk about modern day technology, however, it contributes for people to become unreceptive to the value of exercise. And where people get more adapt to technology for their conveniences, they want to do things the easy way, thus making exercise a second thought.
Exercise is always a part of an active life however, for the technology addicted person it is always avoided or sometimes minimized. But when the need arises, the rush to get in shape and the tension of society and technology leads to a variety of frustrating illnesses and injuries brought about by inactivity, then blame it to the lack of information about exercising.
However, to the athlete and the exercise enthusiasts they have two physical obstacles to overcome: The diseases of inactivity, which are discovered when one is getting into shape; and the diseases of excellence that sometimes come from exercising to well.