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Interestingly, all of those activities you list seem to have an underlying purpose beyond merely "fitness for the sake of fitness" - exercise (and the fitness w

by kornish 10y ago

Interestingly, all of those activities you list seem to have an underlying purpose beyond merely "fitness for the sake of fitness" - exercise (and the fitness which follows) are incidental side-effects of completing those activites. Not sure what you mean by "actual" evidence, but we know a lot of what we know from studies of modern-day hunter gatherer groups and it seems unlikely that the ancients would have significantly different behavior around needless calorie expenditure.

justinator 10y ago
Modern day hunter gatherers do not "play"?
- kornish 10y ago
  "Play" isn't exercise for the sake of exercise.
  - dansze 10y ago
    Which leads us to the current situation of the only people who stuck to exercise long term are those for whom "exercise for the sake of exercise" is play.
fossuser 10y ago
I'm not sure how much modern fitness would qualify for 'fitness for the sake of fitness'. Seems more likely it's backed by wanting to have sex (or maybe I'm just projecting my own motivations).