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Watch this. If I go over here and take this young lady by the throat and choke off her air, within seconds she's aware that oxygen is a requirement for life. If I lock her in a room with no water, within a few hours she will begin to suspect that water is a requirement for life.

If I lock her in there long enough that she gets ravenously hungry, she will begin to suspect that food is a requirement for life. The oxygen-time effect or cause-effect time relationship is very close, a matter of seconds. Water, matter of hours. Food, matter of days. Exercise is just as important as any of those

things, but the time factor is much greater spread out in time so that if you don't exercise, you don't immediately become aware of it. Might take you months or years by which time you will have done irreversible damage to yourself. Honestly, there's so much truth to this because it's fine if you miss a few days in the gym. It's fine if you miss a week in the gym. In fact,

you'll usually be better after that long of a period off. But if you start to miss multiple weeks, then it approaches months and then it approaches years. After a while, people are going to look at you or your old friends and they're just going to be like, what happened to you? And then it just accumulates and goes downhill faster and faster and faster. But the good news

is it doesn't take that much to stay in shape and continually get in shape. And you can get back what you had decently quick, actually, because there's a thing called muscle memory to where at one point in your life, if you were holding a bunch of muscle, your body remembers how to build

that muscle. And most of the time you can get that back pretty quickly compared to somebody who's trying to build that up for the first time. But all in all, our bodies definitely need some sort of activity, some sort of working out. And honestly, the best thing you can do is lift weights. It does