This is Kevin Don, the Get Fit Guy. Welcome back to regular listeners and welcome to any new listeners.

Unless you have been living under a rock, then you may have noticed we live in an age defined by

technological innovation and rapid digitalization. For most of us, it's impossible to

imagine a life, in fact, without technology. Now, in our distant and not so distant past,

exercise was not something humans had to do intentionally. It simply was that in the process of aiming to survive, we moved our bodies.

Now, I've mentioned before, but in case you missed it, the biological definition of fitness

is really just making sure that you stay alive long enough to procreate, and this ensures

the continuation of the species. And I feel compelled to say

here, because I know that sometimes people read into things or focus on things that I've said

and take them totally out of context, that I do know that many people are either incapable of having children or just don't want children.

This doesn't mean they're not fit by other definitions.

I'm purely talking about how biology determines the fitness of a species.

That being that it continues to exist across time.

I'm sure everyone has heard the expression

survival of the fittest. So in the biological definition, exercise was an integral component

of fitness because it enabled one to survive. If you didn't get up and go hunt and gather,

then you and your tribe would not eat. If you didn't have up and go hunt and gather, then you and your tribe would not eat.

If you didn't have the capacity to run, jump, breakiate, pull, push and drag objects,

then you would either fail at hunting for food or fail at avoiding being hunted as food.

So this idea of intentionality of exercise is actually a new

one because I don't need to spear any lambs down at Whole Foods or fight off people for fresh water

at Kroger. Now, exercise for many, if not most, has actually become about technology.

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