17/09/2026
It’s a strange world, the fitness industry.
Two words get thrown around constantly , health and fitness. But what do they actually mean?
Health has a few key dimensions:
Physical Health, the body functioning normally: fitness, nutrition, rest.
Mental Health, emotional and psychological clarity, being able to cope with normal life stresses.
Social Health, forming meaningful connections and interacting positively within a community.
That’s it. That’s the actual definition.
But the fitness industry doesn’t sell that. It sells extremes. It pushes a perverse obsession with pushing further, going harder, chasing the edge, and calls that health.
I’ll be honest, I struggle to relate to extremes now I’m older. Unless the reward matches the sacrifice, it doesn’t add up to me. If you’re earning a fortune off the back of that extreme lifestyle, fair enough — the risk and the reward are in balance.
But for the general public, who aren’t getting paid to live at the extremes? Balanced health is the only way forward. Not obsession. Not perfection. Balance.
That’s my take, anyway.
