fitness and the african

       One of the few first things i noticed when i first came to America was the fact that it was public knowdledge that fitness was undeniably and irreversibly good for you. This was made factual by the way that you could see gyms almost in and around every commercial center in the case of East Coast where i landed and later on , in almost every block in California, you could see people of all age category running up and down in parks without any clear destination in mind or a frequent fitness product advertisement on  television. But what happened to make poeple so trendy about fitness?. was there anything wrong with people here ? the answer is yes if you really understand where i am coming from.
I was born and grew up in Africa. I or any other fellow African, the majority to say the least, we didn't  know what a simple push up is and we don't care even if we know how to do it.
The reality is we are called to engage in fitness by doing our normal daily activities.
You see i grew in the village where the means of everything from transportation to labor are rudimentary or sometime inexistant. The circumstances dictated that we physically engaged in different activities.
Basically our cardiovascular exercises consisted of walking really long distance to go to school, to the farm or to any other place and this happened everyday of the year. The case of school for exemple when i was growing up, the clasees were in two shifts,so i used to make four trips of about seven miles one trip each school day. Until i left the village i didn't remember ever ride on any vehicle. also the running moment came when hunting or when late in class, because we never possessed a clock, it tended to happen often. How could one not burn calories to the bones.

Our strenght exercise consisted of carying heavy things on top of our heads for example getting water from the well at about a mile or two from home or fetching woods for fire or carrying product from the farm sometime at about ten miles. Also working in the farm conditioned me as well, using machettes to cut grass and trees was the brutal arm strenghening method possible, How could one not become strong?

Consequently those normal daily activities are what make the African(me) physically fit with an accompanying factor that the food they comsume comes directly from the farm(organic)

So what is wrong with the people of the West Hemisphere is that they lack those natural activities.
Well i beleive that every individual is free to choose to bring a bit of a natural in their lifestyle.
you can choose to walk sometimes or use the bike rather than driving,
Think fitness when doing even the household activities
Think fitness when playing with the kids.
It is about fitness.