Too often, higher incomes encourage sedentary lifestyles - office workers chained to desks, workaholics sapped of energy once they leave the job, and driven executives who exercise only in fits and starts. Sunday is a family day. Of course, there are always the converted health fanatics who successfully reverse their evil ways. I can take challenges without thinking about them. It has opened up new vistas.
Some executives pour the same energy they had devoted to work into fitness.
I arrange all my socializing around working out. Such commitment is admirable, but it is also beyond the ability and reach of many. And yet, say fitness experts, people too often seem to believe that if they cannot go all out to achieve supreme fitness, they may as well not try at all. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Rob Devereux, a personal trainer for the Hong Kong-based Ray Wilson California Fitness Center. Instead of looking for the body beautiful, we're trying to encourage people to look for strengthening the components of fitness that will enable them to lead active lives.