Today we have become so complacent with our lack of physical activity and poor nutritional habits that we are failing to see what is happening right in front of us. I think the saddest side of it is that now more then ever we have access to information about our health and fitness and how to improve it yet the majority still let it wash over them without taking it in. In a society that time and time again has the message driven home about the horrific cost to our health of smoking, binge drinking, a diet rich in fast food and lack of physical activity how can so many still be unmoved to do something about it – and more importantly how can we as a whole allow for it to stand?

Why are we content to let more fast food shops open in every suburb, why do we let alcohol and cigarette companies advertise at sporting events where children, teenagers and adolescents are 80 percent of the audience, and why – most importantly – are we so lazy as to allow ourselves to reach the physical low that we do and not have the drive to strive for something better?

The following generations will learn by the examples we set and at this point in time I find our example very lacking.

But people can change for the better. Better physically, and better mentally. All they need is a desire, a desire to change and the willpower and knowledge to make it happen. So that leaves us with the question how do we do this? How do we create in people the desire to change, the want for a better quality of life, the need to experience life and not be content to let it pass them by.

We do it by changing peoples perception of what is acceptable, we provide them with the drive to make a change and we provide them with the knowledge of how to make it happen.


If an entire generation of people can be taught how to make a fit and healthy lifestyle a habit, so they no longer even need to think about what they have to do to maintain it, but are able to maintain it automatically with no further thought, then the following generations will learn how to make it a habit as well. The domino effect of this? Lifestyle disease like obesity, and the associated heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, heart attack and the many other factors attributed to unhealthy lifestyles will be drastically reduced. This is the only way to tackle this increasing problem – not to build more hospitals for more beds to treat more people with these diseases, the problem must be solved where it starts, at childhood with the habits we learn and grow up accepting as the norm.


People need to stop looking for an easy answer to their problems – you cannot create a healthy sustainable change to your body by taking a pill, doing a crash diet or any of the thousands of quick fix answers you find advertised world wide. They need to start taking accountability for the situation they are in, they have to be the ones to decide its time for a change, and they need to be able to have the knowledge to change it. Everyone has a ready excuse for the day when they sit back, take stock of their life and find that they are unhappy, overweight, unfit and not where they thought they would be at that point in their lives.

“I don’t have the time to exercise”, or “I work such long hours it’s more convenient to get takeaway, I don’t have time to make my meals”, and “I don’t know what to do “. There are literally millions of excuses that people come up with to satisfy their need to justify why they are how they are.

That’s all that they are. Excuses. They are not legitimate reasons for your current predicament; they are you looking for a way to offload the blame that is rightfully yours. You made the choices that led you to where you are. Only you can make the choices to change that.


We have a lot working against us towards maintaining or improving our health and fitness – we are surrounded by temptations every day, fast foods, drugs and alcohol, socialising where it’s all too easy to follow the crowd and give in to those temptations. We have food that is depleted of its nutrients through overcooking, soil depletion, farming and processing methods and other foods that are so overflowing with sugars, salts, preservatives and additives it’s a wonder our bodies manage to absorb anything useful from it. We have families to look after and provide for, mortgages and bills to pay, material things to buy a retirement to plan for – all of this leading to longer hours and more stressful work. I’m always amazed at the way people allow their health to suffer at the hands of their work – after all if you are not healthy enough to work then you cant provide for anyone anyway so why are the priorities so backwards?

Again the answer is in what we learn is acceptable as we grow up.

The time for change is today. There is no leaving it for tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes. Deep inside all of us, to some degree or another, is the desire to be better, to function, look and feel better, to be stronger and fitter so that we have the ability to anything that we wanted to physically. The answer is here. Change. Make a decision. Make a commitment. Learn and grow and exceed your own expectations that you had of yourself.