Welcome back to Get Fit Guy, Kevin Don here with a significant diatribe in response to some listener

comments and emails I received last week. Regular listeners of the show will know that I don't

see fitness as what we do in the gym a couple of times a week

just for the goal of checking off a box marked physical activity. Instead, I see fitness as

everything that we can do to move the needle from sickness to wellness and developing an

understanding of ourselves as humans. I think it's our responsibility to ourselves

as we navigate our world to have at least a basic understanding of self-maintenance, both in terms of

our physicality, but also our mindset and the emotional factors which help influence our decisions.

After all, there's 168 hours in a week. You might spend

five to ten hours of that in the gym, so what we do in the other 94% of the week is always

going to be more impactful on our fitness than gym time is. In episode 590 of the show,

I discussed how to resist the aging process with strength training.

In case you missed that episode, really suggest you go have a listen.

It's packed with useful and irrefutable facts.

But in the meantime, I'll recap it as a background to this week's rant. As we age, we're all undergoing a process

that affects all matter in a known universe. As time progresses, we all move from a situation

of order to disorder and disarray. This is a fundamental and maybe the most robust law in nature.

That in a closed system, entropy can never decrease. It only increases.

In a human organism, that disarray and entropy comes in many forms, but it's mainly expressed

as metabolic syndromes. most notably sarcopenia,

which is a loss of muscle mass, and osteopenia, which is a loss of your bone mineral density.

Both of these can be mitigated by intentional and deliberate intervention.

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