Over and above any
considerations of performance for sports, exercise is the stimulus that returns
our bodies to the conditions for which they were designed. Humans are not
physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort. Exercise is not a
thing to fix a problem- it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which
there will always be problems. Exercise is the thing we must do to replicate
the conditions under which our physiology was – and still is- adapted, the
conditions under which we are physically normal. ….And merely normal, for most
worthwhile humans, is not enough. – Mark Rippetoe
