Читать книгу Solitary Fitness - You Don't Need a Fancy Gym or Expensive Gear to be as Fit as Me - Charles Bronson - Страница 26

You’re brainwashed by TV showing films of unreal people, muscle mags with images of muscle-laden wooden edifices, magazines full of waifs, or you see a supermodel who’s anorexic and suddenly you’re the one who’s fat and out of shape. Hey, don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen a lot of good fitness mags out there … but not the ones showing steroid freaks on the front covers! Look at people like Steve Redgrave, that rower geezer … he’ll live forever, while you muscle freaks will die from a broken heart, literally!

There’s also too much emphasis on kids to look good in their branded sportswear, but how many actually do sports? Parents are partly to blame for how their kids develop eating disorders. I mean, it’s only in recent times that anorexia and bulimia became so widespread. Look at Ian Brady … he’d been on hunger strike for who knows how long, they fed him through a tube and yet the evil bastard still lived on! There are newspapers with adverts telling you that to live longer you need to take this new and expensive supplement. Remember the big rip-off when adverts were promoting an evil-tasting tea that supposedly made you slim? It was supposed to make you skinny as a rake, ha, ha … Who were the silly people buying this muck, eh?

You see a photo of big Arnie and you’re like a programmed zombie, you aim for it. Ninety per cent of you will never become that way as your body structure, gene make-up and bone design will not allow it, but why want to be like him? Why not be fit, fast and very alert? Why not live a better life, breathe better and easier, and feel good? To feel good, you need to look good