/sig/ physical fitness

/sig/ draws from ancient Hellenic civic virtue, early Americanism, National Socialism, and I'm sure a myriad of other political ideologies.

>No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
t. Socrates
>In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection.
t. Plato

>I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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>Health was amongst (if not the most) precious gift of Heaven, and without it we are but little capable of business, or enjoyment.
t. George Washington
>Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
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>Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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>Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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>Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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>I repeat my advice to take a great deal of exercise, and on foot. Health is the first requisite after morality.
t. Thomas Jefferson

>Above all, a balance must be struck in education between intellectual instruction and physical development. What is called a Gymnasium or secondary school today is a mockery of the Greek school it was supposedly modeled after. We have completely forgotten in education that in the long run, a sound mind can only live in a sound body.
t. Adolf Hitler
>Long lasting success in any human endeavor is never the result of blind luck. The achievement of a clearly defined goal, whether it be the act of walking from point "X" to point "Y", the building of a house, or the organization of a business, is always the product of three things:
>>The intellectual ability to perceive the problem involved, the opposition which must be expected, and the best way to overcome that opposition to reach the goal.
>>The will and determination to do whatever may be necessary to reach the desired goal, regardless of opposition.
>>The physical means, strength, and courage to enforce and carry out the plan or fight conceived by the mind and determined by the will.
>If any of these three elements be lacking on one's purpose, failure is the inevitable, predictable result.
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>On the other hand, civilizations, for all their intellectual achievements and sciences, perish most often because of failure of the will, the diminishing of the savage and ruthless drive for survival and dominance which originally created society. They become "humanitarian", selfish, and soft. They become physically weak and dependent on paid armies and police to do their fighting. The fighting spirit of honor and self-sacrifice and heroism of their ancestors gives way to a growing love of ease and luxury and cowardice masquerading as "humanitarianism".
t. George Lincoln Rockwell

Not only are strong bodies needed for warfare and industry, but mental health deteriorates with physical health, as observed by millennia of physicians from prehistoric Ayurvedic tradition to Hippocrates in the 5th century BC to modern researchers like Dr. John Ratey. Physical weakness leads to mental and spiritual weakness and the decay of peoples and their societies.

Strengthen your body to strengthen your mind. Don't let sloth distort the lens through which you view the world. Open your eyes and see through the lies.