Taking Your Legs For Granted

This post is for people who are able to use their legs

The next sentence might sound a bit funny:

I try to think about my legs about once a week.

Not in an aesthetic sense, but in a bio-mechanical, physical sense.


My legs are amazing. They enable me to walk, jump, hop, skip, kick and run. They also give me height, agility and stability.

Imagining my life without legs helps me to appreciate them even more. This appreciation gives me a certain joy, as it allows me to enjoy something free and that I already have and own for life.

As a thought exercise, for one minute, try to imagine your life without legs.

After you realize how much that would suck, try to think about ways of keeping your legs fit and strong so that when the time comes, they don't give up on you...

On average, a human being living in the western world walks approximately 700 meters a day (around 800 yards)!

That's nothing!!!

We have become too used to our comfortable cars, segways and elevators and have stopped using our legs, thus neglecting the very components that make us into such an awesome machine.

This neglect is dangerous. It weakens the bones (which need constant resistance to stay strong and compressed) and depletes our muscle and tendon fiber, leaving us vulnerable to injury and to illnesses such as diabetes.

Don't take your legs for granted!

Make some changes in your habits.

How about climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator? Make it a rule that any ascent under 5 floors high - you will use the stairs.

Walk to the post office or kiosk down the road, don't take the car! Stop being so lazy.

If you are serious about your health -

Start walking, jogging or running.

Go to your fucking gym, and if you are already going to the gym, work out your legs, not only your pecs and arms!

If you guys have ideas for more ways to change habits of leg neglect, please comment below :-)


For more info about the picture posted: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1169147/The-baby-blade-runner-Walking-tall-little-girl-youngest-given-hi-tech-legs.html

For more info about Oscar Pistorius: http://www.oscarpistorius.com/