Missbone I shall respectfully disagree. I think we humans - we're animals, we're designed to move around, have the ability to certain types of movement, have the ability to move consistently, with endurance, for a long time. We have completely lost that sense, on the whole, of what our bodies are designed and capable of doing.
I - and probably like a lot of people - don't move to look good, to bow down to the pressures on women to look a certain way by the media or society. I couldn't give a f*ck what people think of the way I look - my shape, my weight. I move because I cannot bear not to. I think it is far more detrimental to the human being to be sat down all day long, slumped, hunched, sedentary and atrophying.
Every day in work, I am a human being trapped in captivity. I come home, spine curved, hips flexors stiff from being in a chair all day long, and I stretch out like a cat. I move around - sometimes in structured "fitness", other times in play, most of the time outside, and slowly I begin to feel supple again - not stiff, and achy.
I don't do what I do so I can fit in size ten jeans. I do it because I want to see my body do what it was designed to do. These things are important to me. To be healthy, to move constantly - because I can't bear what it means to be sedentary and what the consequences of that will be. But I don't think most people get what I'm saying - it's too much of a reach. I don't move because I have to, or because I want to look good, or because I feel it's a chore to be done with for the day. I do it simply because my body can.