Just the concept of exercise, the notion that a person should "work out" in order to "stay in shape," would have been greeted with incomprehension.
He struggled to explain the concept of exercise & then one of the fishermen said, "But, Don Jaime, have they no boats?" Writer comforted himself with this tale when his own shiny new rowing machine arrived a couple of weeks ago..
At first they were very excited about the machine, because they felt it would make their job easier... Writer explained the concept of exercise to them, without much success..
He struggled to explain the concept of exercise & then one of the fishermen said, "But, Don Jaime, have they no boats?" Writer comforted himself with this tale when his own shiny new rowing machine arrived a couple of weeks ago.
At first they were very excited about the machine, because they felt it would make their job easier... Writer explained the concept of exercise to them, without much success.
Meaning that the Japanese have no concept of exercise, because when it takes a goddamned video game to get you in shape, something is wrong.
Sometimes the "no pain, no gain" concept of exercise training can be just as damaging as it is motivating.
The concept of exercise training could cover heterogeneous interventions that differ in type (e.g., endurance versus resistance training, acute versus chronic exercise), intensity, frequency, and duration.
You need to make a connection with the concept of exercise; find a way to make it personally meaningful.
