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Most of us have a lot of trouble getting into fitness. For some reason doing the things which are necessary to replace fat with muscle are nearly impossible. Possibly this is because we all believe that diet, supplementation and exercise only work for only a select few.

For many people, fitness is primarily a thing of youthfulness. There seems to have been a golden age when fitness was just something that happened regardless of how we lived. (We could eat anything and never gain a pound.) Back then most of us were out for sports, which probably made all of the difference. But this never lasted, and it is never expected that it should have. The reason is that we are now supposedly too old to be doing all of those strenuous activities. That means too old starting at twenty one, having become appropriately dumpy now that we are over thirty something.

However, youth is not the only thing we believe responsible for fitness. Genes supposedly play a big part as well. That is current common sense thinking. Yet most of us who profess this have never even had one course in bio-genetics. Nevertheless, we are sure that anyone over the age of forty who is in great shape must have been blessed with desirable set of genes.

If neither of these causes is compelling, what then can we say causes fitness at any age? is there a simple answer? Or is it so complex that it requires endless studies, control groups, and surveys of countless subjects? Perhaps. But why not just theorize that it is a question of sticking with good habits? To be sure, that is how we keep our teeth looking good. We just brush them every day whether we think they need it or not. So, why not something similar when it comes to fitness?

The reason for not thinking that good habits are the primary cause is simple. With all of the failures that occur every year at the health clubs standard fitness factors including diet, supplementation and exercise must not be effective for hardly anyone. After all, everybody who starts in January must be into all three of these, but  still they tend to disappear right around tax time. Must it not be that the tried and true simply does not work for this significant majority? Must it not be that the standard fitness answers do not answer the standard fitness questions, concerns and aspirations?

The primary doubt of this doubt should perhaps be thought of in relation to persistence. This is the single most important factor in a fitness lifestyle. It means staying at it no matter what. How many of us can really say that we have done that? Certainly not those of us who have given up after only four months.Then too how many deviations from the norm were there during that period? How about at least sixteen, as everyone knows we have to have at least one day off per week? Or is it really thirty two as there should be a Saturday and a Sunday to rest up from any type of intense effort. How many of us still all believe that, if not the every other day routine with the weekend off.

Fitness requires diet, supplementation and exercise every day whether its our birthdays or Christmas, Saturday or Monday. It demands the same regularity as tooth brushing and in fact it is very much like just that in more than one way. It cleans toxins, causes attractiveness and simply instills an aura of healthiness that would not be present without it. Furthermore, tooth brushing is hardly rocket manufacture. It merely requires putting paste on the brush to then systematically complete the task. Can anything be more simple? In other words, would anyone even think of showing up for a Christmas party without having used a toothbrush?

Because too few of us see it that way, the streets of every major city look like the promises of copious patient loads for each and every all too well-off doctor. Surely it cannot be earth-shaking to realize that being unfit makes us prone to endless maladies that we have all come to expect as a normal result of what we call living in the real world. This is little more than common knowledge. Nevertheless, this does not have to to be. And, it will not be,  if only we commit to a fitness program that we can maintain with the same as the brushing of our teeth..

For further thought on fitness regularity order my book "Think and Grow Fit."