The Deadliest Sin - Sloth

Out of the seven, sloth is the deadliest sin of modern man. Humans were meant to move. Bones were meant to handle stress of weight. Joints were meant to provide a range of motion. Muscles were meant to provide motion to our body parts. And our heart was meant to pump blood for the purpose of fueling the continuity of this motion. Our ancestors used to hunt animals, dig roots, gather fruits, build shelter, etc. Staying active was their life. Today, it seems some of us are moving just barely enough to keep from dying, which I guess is better than not moving at all. In this day and age, especially in more developed nations, people hardly ever walk anymore. There is no need since cars exist and time is valuable. Food is readily available in stores. For most people, shelter is bought, not made. Most developed nations are filled with white-collar employees who wake up early in the morning, commute to work through traffic, spend an average of 8 - 9 hours sitting at a desk absorbing light from fluorescent bulbs and/or cathode ray tubes (aka your computer monitor unless you use an LCD screen). And then right around when the sun sets, these same people travel back home (through traffic once again), eat dinner, and before you know it it's time for bed. And oh yeah, 7 - 8 hours later the process is repeated. Unless of course it's Friday or the weekend. During this time, if you're not tired from the stress or mental anxieties of your job, you do have some free time if you don't have any other impending obligations. And so that's the life! Or is it? Notice how according to the life I just described, about 40 hours was spent vegetating at your workplace, about 56 hours laying in bed sleeping (that's the recommended healthy amount, if you even get that much), about 5 hours going to and from work (that's if it takes you 30 min going each way), about 7 hours eating (that's if you spend an average of 20 min eating each meal), and about 3.5 hours in the bathroom (30 min a day). And this is considering that you do have an office job, that you don't walk/run to work, and that you don't hunt your own food (by hand)... and no, the physical activity you perform in your dreams while you sleep does not count. Ok, so considering all that, that leaves you with about 5 hours/day during the weekdays. Not bad, if you don't watch t.v., listen to music, cook/prepare dinner, spend time on your home computer, talk to anyone on the phone, do homework, work overtime, or take naps because you're overwhelmed by your job. Ok, it's fairly clear that it may be a tad difficult to perform some kind of strenuous or semi-strenuous workout with the modern man's schedule. But there are some who do put in about 1-2 hours of daily exercise (walking, included). Of course, light exercise spread throughout the day would be ideal because remember that our ancestors were active all day in some form or fashion in order to hunt, migrate, climb trees, or whatever... But let's not get into that, it's already depressing as it is that modern man has to compress a day's worth of light to medium exercise into a couple of hours of intense heart-pounding physical exertion. I have digressed a bit from my main purpose, which is to promote physical movement. It's almost impossible to live as our ancestors did if you want to live with society, enjoy the technological fruits of modern civilization, and/or don't have a very strong yearn to live as our ancestral man did. And so, the best thing modern man can do is to take what little time he has left in his hectic, mind numbing day and make the most out of it by taking his body and putting it into physical motion.