A Paradox Of Exercising For Health

All scientific matters are epistemologically probabilistic because they are not logically and thus metaphysically necessary, so there is no guarantee that, due to personal factors or even something unlikely but extreme like the laws of physics not remaining the same, someone who exercises will receive some particular health benefit.  Any benefit for physical (and mental) health is individualistic, as important as it might be for foundational wellbeing.  But it is the case that their is a likelihood of improved stability in health for those who engage in exercise, with any accomplishing more for the body than none.

The (probable) reinforced health that results is not enough to compel some people to care for their longevity through bodily exercise.  The reasons might be legitimate: it can be very difficult, especially if one has to work to survive or is not accustomed to regular exercise, to entrench oneself in the habit of exercising on a consistent basis.  Unfortunately, the longer exercise is abstained from, the more challenging it can be to initiate, and the less potent the benefits might be.  Inversely, there could be great payoff later in life for those who practice even milder forms of exercise.  This is where the issue entails a significant paradox.

Regularly devoting some time to potentially annoying exercise that requires some degree of active effort does involve time one will never get back, but it can also add more time to one's lifespan.  The extended lifetime might even be far more physically comfortable, which in turn lessens the need to devote attention or resources to urgent health and comfort-related needs as an increasingly vulnerable person of older age.  More than the irony of it becoming more difficult to gain health benefits from starting exercise later in life even for those who become very intent on doing so, the time and energy used to exercise earlier one can ensure more of both persists for a longer period.

Again, no exact outcome is logically guaranteed because there is no strict necessity in one health status coming about from a given exercise, however persistent someone practices it.  Scientific truths are not logical facts, with only the latter being inherently true.  Cardio exercise can make heart failure far more improbable, for instance.  However, it cannot eliminate the possibility.  But caretaking one's bodily health by using a portion of the time and energy, as well as whatever health one currently posseses, to exercise will likely grant one a longer life and greater energy.

The paradox of exercising for health is that although it does require time, energy, and health that could genuinely pose psychological or practical obstacles for some people, it correlates with the likelihood of gaining a longer lifespan with more stable energy and health throughout that time; exercise really is nuanced in its relationship to the scientifically correlated consequences.