The Most Ignored Pillar of Health
Exercise is the third pillar of health. Food supports your biology. Sleep restores your system. Exercise tells your body what to become. Movement isn’t just about calories or weight loss it’s a biological signal. When you lift something heavy, your body gets the message: keep this muscle, when you walk consistently, your heart adapts: stay efficient and when you push intensity briefly, your mitochondria respond: produce more energy. Ironically, exercise is simplest pillar yet it’s the one most people struggle with, not because it’s complicated because modern life has engineered movement out of our day. We sit to work. Sit to drive. Sit to relax. Scroll instead of stroll. Then we expect one random gym session to undo 10 hours of stillness. Inside RESET, I teach exercise as biological communication not punishment, not extremes, not “no pain no gain" just consistent, intelligent signals that tell your body: Stay strong. Stay capable. Stay alive. After 40, exercise stops being optional, it becomes protective. From your mid-30s onwards, muscle mass naturally declines, strength drops, recovery slows, hormones shift and bone density gradually reduces. If you don’t give the body a reason to maintain strength, it won’t. Your metabolism slows largely because muscle is shrinking. Blood sugar control worsens because muscle is your biggest glucose sink. Balance declines because stabilising muscles weaken. Even brain health is affected because movement drives circulation and growth factors. Here’s my weekly minimum effective dose I recommend inside RESET: - 1 hour strength training (protect muscle, bone density, joints, metabolism) - 1.5 hours Zone 2 cardio (steady walking pace you can talk through) - 15 minutes high intensity (Tabata works well) - 1 hour nature walk (countryside, woods, park nervous system reset) That’s it, you don’t need to live in the gym, you just need consistent signals that tell your body: stay capable, I need you. Inside The RESET System, I show you how to make movement realistic, sustainable and aligned with your biology not burnout-based fitness culture.