At what price do you value Fitness? £50? £1,000? Has it a Price?
Yet it need cost you almost Nothing to obtain and retain.
It needs but TEN MINUTES A DAY OF YOUR SPARE TIME
Every year thousands of people in this country die in the very houses they hoped to enjoy in their leisure, their every hope of long life, their every ambition for health and happiness blasted – because they failed to look after their own health.
In this article I want to tell you just what it costs to get and to keep fit. For the answer is that it costs – time.
You may be rich or poor. You may be employed, unemployed, or overworked. You may be a young girl or an elderly man. Fitness is yours if you want it badly enough. But you’ve got to be willing to spend time on it – and not necessarily more than ten minutes per day.
Ten minutes! Yet people waste hours every day in gossip, or staring idly, or being needlessly busy. Why not invest a few of those spare minutes on your body – your health – your future?
I know what I’m talking about. I have never got a penny from fitness.
I have had none of the reasons. I have had plenty of excuses. I am married, I have children. I am away from the house all day. I get cold in the winter. I work at night. I do not like the food.
And I shared in all cases the underlying cause. And the reason people neglect physical culture is that they do not really believe in it. Or they believe in it the wrong way. They look on the body as a thing apart – to be trimmed and polished like a car.
But fitness is not a “side issue.” It is a personal investment – and a duty.
You owe it to yourself. You owe it to those who depend on you. You owe it to your employer.
You owe it to the doctor who bears the moral burden of treating people who destroy themselves too much and too long.
You owe it to Health and Strength, which is trying valiantly to make people interested in physical culture.
Apart from providing visible physical benefits, proper training is mental, moral, and spiritual. It steadies the nerves. It brings confidence. It brings calm.
So to those who say, “I haven’t the time,” I say: Pass this article to your friend and spread the good cause.
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I used to think of exercise as a luxury—only for those who had the time or the passion for fitness. But as my body began to tire from sitting too much and eating irregularly, I realized: the price of laziness is more expensive than any gym membership. Ten minutes a day may seem small, but sticking to it requires willpower—and the reward is a sense of mastery.