Fitness! What is your excuse?

[Illusive_Man]

Fitness.What is your excuse?(Disability not included)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj36NN_XuYo&

Here we have a bunch of 60 and 80 years old doing what most people in their 20s and 30s can't.

Quad-swinging monkey bars.
Inverse pullups.
IN THEIR 70s!

And it's not 1 , its not 2 .
It's a WHOLE GROUP of old folks doing it every day , and it's pretty common to see them exercising late into the night. Bringing their own lunchboxes and often cooking right in the park...

With a modern life style, you have money , but what you're sacrificing is your health.

Would you rather by rich but crippled.
Or poor but healthy?

Rich but crippled

Poor but healthy

[Anonymous]

I'm crippled, the doctors told me I would never walk again because my spine deteriorated... I took my grandma's walker and forced myself to relearn how to walk. I can walk now with the help of a cane, I beat the odds. No money in the world matters when you lose something as previous as your legs. I definitely say I'd rather be poor and healthy. I think people should cherish the body god gave them and get off of their butts and use it!

[Illusive_Man]

Ooooh... I'm sorry to hear that but that just shows if one put their mind to it , there's nothing they can't do.
Yet , we have all these people relying on medical surgery to staple their stomach and blaming on society when it is their lack of resolve bringing them down.

I think you would make a GREAT motivational speaker.

[G-Daz]

you're awesome! :)

[Opinion Owner]

Thank you for the nice comments. I try to inspire people with my disease; especially little kids. Children are the pratt recipient of this disease. I have a rare form of transverse myelitis, it is a disease that is not widely known. I didn't fit any of the typical patterns in my disease and when it attacked my spine, I became paralyzed. I just couldn't accept that I would never walk again. I used to be a hockey player, tough as nails, and my instrument was taken away. I kept thinking that I would never get to play again, or that I would never get to WALK down the aisle when I got married. It lit a fire under me and no matter how bad the pain was, I knew that I could do it. God gave us each, a body, our temple and we need to take care of it and treasure it. It's one of the most precious gifts we get, we only get one, so we need to strive to make ourselves the best version of us.

[MixedTwit]

When it comes to ur health it's always more important then money. in the alphabet, H comes before W just like health comes before wealth

[Anonymous]

Asthma, an injury from years ago, no money to join a gym, and I live in an area where it's cold for 5 months of the year. BUT I do a little "work out" for an hour a day, mostly biking (whatever i can) 5-6 days a week, so it's something. Right now, it's probably best I can do for the time being. So I try to avoid excuses.

[pionneer]

That's a pretty crappy set of choices. When you say crippled do you mean in a wheelchair because if so that can make a person very fit and healthy. Im gona say Rich but crippled because I don't think being a cripple should be considered such a terrible thing, lots of people do just fine especially rich cripples.

[Illusive_Man]

Being cripple doesn't just mean in term of motor functions tho.
Crippled mean that you are biologically not able to do certain thing that normal healthy people are able to do.
Having diabetes at the age of 40 , heart diseases , strokes induced disability. All too common in this day and age , people working themselves to death happens daily in Asian countries.

Well I guess if you're lifestyle is rather sedentary , physical health wouldn't matter that much then...

[pionneer]

would I be like mr burns in simpsons. He has so many illnesses that they balance themselves out and keep him in perfect health. He is also very rich.

[Illusive_Man]

yes , you'll also get a free bosom buddy

[pionneer]

In all seriousness it just isn't much of a choice. Be like Stephen hawking and mega rich or be like some tramp on a park bench but be in good health. What is the point of having one without the other, and yet both those types exist and both make the best of it but to judge who has a slightly better existence is difficult. I would hope to never be either but always somewhere inbetween.

[Illusive_Man]

So it's another one of those A or B I choose aaaaa-bee answer then lol

[pionneer]

well as I am relatively poor but relatively healthy then I choose rich but unhealthy because its the other side of the coin. Its funny because in medieval times the richer people were the less healthy their lifestyles were, but I bet they wouldn't have changed it for the world.

[ihatethiswebsite]

My excuse is that I've had surgery and have had nothing but bad things happen. I'm finally lifting 3 pound weights after 2 and a half years but ican do them a couple times a week

[ihatethiswebsite]

I used to be able to do 80 push ups in a minute back in the day

[Illusive_Man]

that kinda speed can't be good for your rotator cuffs lol

[Anonymous]

How badly am I crippled? If I choose the rich option, because I am healthy and poor right now.

[Illusive_Man]

Can't have sugar cos you have diabetes , can't run because you have hypertension and arteries hardening , can't bend over because of degenerative spinal column due to the decades of sitting in front of a computer.

[Opinion Owner]

Oh, so I am old and rich? Let's face it is probably going to happen. Diabetes runs in my family.

[Illusive_Man]

So you're just gonna give up?

[Opinion Owner]

I guess poor and healthy, I'll be poor and unhealthy eventually, but I have things to do before then.

[Illusive_Man]

ah cool... well... such is a testament to life , you just gotta give your best shot.

[Opinion Owner]

Yep! I'm buying a sail boat in two years :>

[Illusive_Man]

oh COME ON lol that's not called being poor.
Talking about being on food stamps and can't even afford public transport here

[Opinion Owner]

Yep, that's me. I have no money right now. I am lucky my parents feed me. Can't even afford to pay attention and will be wearing shorts in the middle of winter, but that is my goal $3,200 in two years if I work really really hard.

[RandomStudent]

Meh, I just wanna live happy as I can, and health isn't my main priority. Don't really care if I can live a few years longer, if I will end up spending a few years of my life struggling in the gym. Basically, I hate working out.

[matrix124]

I really am poor & healthy. I don't make a lot of money, but I take good care of myself.

[front2back]

Mine is 16 credit hours in an engineering major and preferring I have at least 5 hours of sleep a night and my gym has shitty hours.

At the very least though, I ride my bike around 3-5miles a day, half the time up steep hills.

[J-junk]

I'm already poor and healthy
I've wanted to be healthy since I was a little kid. The poor thing happened when I wasn't looking. Lol

[Anonymous]

I'm actually rich and kinda crippled by a car accident. I became rich after the accident. I would rather be homeless than have this injury. I would trade it all to be healthy again.

[crayven]

HEALTHY !
Money means nothing. Money has as much value as "monopoly dollars". The only reason it is important is because we WANT it to be.
The sooner we give it up the better.

[Tokana]

Poor but healthy, just to add some of the stuff they were doing were dangerous, but impressive for their age.

[LittleSally]

Poor but healthy. I already am that... so... Hahahaha

[CourtJester]

Rofl the music is making this the greatest video ever hahaha

[Stuff_and_stuff]

Poor and healthy mehhh

[Anonymous]

Ashamed to say that I am just lazy!

[Creole_Flavor]

I value my health

[Anonymous]

I don't like all those assholes at the gym.