Volume 3, Number 6: Why Exercise? Part 1

The Health Racquet
Volume 3
Number 6

The Ultimate Question: WHY? Part 1
By Allegra Tschappler

Why do we exercise? Why do we try to do the President's Challenge? Why all this time spent when you could be devoting more of it to school. I mean, come on! An hour a day just for exercise? You could be working on your debate case, polishing up your speech, or working on math!

I believe one of the reasons we need to exercise is that we want to glorify God. When we exercise, we are building up the temple of the Holy Spirit (our body) to do His work. If we allow ourselves to become fat and lazy for want of exercise, we can become seriously detrimental to the Christian faith. People look at us and say they don’t want to be a Christian because “all” Christians are fat and lazy. Hey, they’re making a hasty generalization, but that’s what we all do. I may be going over the edge here in what the results of not exercising may do, but I do know that God likes us to get out and exercise so we can do His work.