The Miracles of Moderate Exercise

A daily walk isn't sexy in terms of attracting eyeballs in a hyper-competitive culture, but it works.

Our culture glorifies competition and extremes in every sphere. This plays out in fitness, which has been folded into extreme sports, as if fitness is by its very nature a competition in which the "winner" is more fit than everyone else.

Fitness is just fitness. Yes, we can improve or backslide, but it isn't a competition. Two recent articles in Scientif…