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What Do I Do to Get Fit?
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What Do I Do to Get Fit?

Getting back to your natural state is easier than you think. Here is the simple physics of it.

How easy it is to get back to our normal state, and to think about what brought us here in the first place.

Short answer: Apply some force on a swing and it starts to move. The moment you stop doing anything to it, it comes back to its normal position eventually. The brilliant news is that, by nature, things try to come back to their normal state as quickly as possible. So going back to our original state should not be very difficult.

Explanation

Let's define what our normal state is, and what's responsible for the screw-up.

From a fitness perspective, I was at my best when I was 3 months old. I was fed well with healthy food, I slept well, and I somehow had a great sense of spending my excess energy by frenetically moving my hands and feet until completely exhausted. The external influences disturbing these three factors were almost negligible. That was my most natural normal state.

As I grew up, the external conditions influencing one or more of those factors kept increasing. When I went out to play, I was asked to come back home within an hour. I stopped going out during board exams. I started feeding on junk. Academic pressure in college, then more junk, followed by working more than 12 hours a day at our jobs, and so on.

If I effectively manage these external forces that prevent me from eating the right food, sleeping well, and moving my backside, I'll start inching towards my normal, and that's exactly what we need to do. The more effectively we can manage these, the closer we get to our normal state.

To-do list for the question: What do I do to get fit?

  1. List the factors affecting your diet, sleep and workout.
  2. List actions to mitigate them to the best possible extent.
  3. Do what we did best when we were 3 months old: eat healthy, sleep well, and get moving!

Easy! Isn't it?

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