Hi and welcome back to Get Fig Guy. This is your host, Kevin. And this week I just thought I would

reintroduce what my ideas are about fitness and this show. Now I understand that in popular vernacular,

there are many words that have lost their meanings or taken on new meanings.

One of those words is fitness.

The oldest record I can find for this word is from the year 1570, and it means the state of being suitable.

And that might tie in with one way to use this word, which is fit for task,

or suitable for a task. And fitness in biological terms is the ability of a species to survive

long enough to be able to pass on genetic material to continue that species. Most people have heard the expression, survival of the fittest.

This means the species in an ecosystem that survives

is the one best suited to staying alive within that environment

to ensure the species continues.

So what does that mean for fitness in humans?

I'd wager that most people are listening to this while driving their cars, walking on treadmills or cleaning their houses. They

aren't doing so trying to survive out hunting, gathering, and avoiding being hunted by lions.

But this doesn't mean that we can't strive to be fit for a purpose of our own modern

lives. As I've mentioned on this podcast before, this is a very general podcast because it goes out

to all listeners and it's therefore not specific by nature. So I can't do an episode on how to be

fit for task for being a firefighter because that's

a special kind of fit for purpose. So it's not useful for a general podcast. So I have to kind of

spread the information out in the widest possible way. This means I need to give the advice that

will be the most impactful and implemented easiest.

This means that whilst there are influencers out there advising that for health you drink your own pee or sun your butt,

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