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/^t/Luckily, there is still another group of people, the largest one, who recognise self-exertion as something actually beneficial to their bodies and minds, and who thus maintain the necessary amount of common sense in viewing the question, thanks to either their strong personalities or favourable social atmosphere. They comprehend that exercise is not a way of life, nor should it be a source of distress. It is intended, as long as its advocates are pure amateurs, to increase their motor ability, calm their nerves, secure to them a relatively shapely figure (compatible with their natural predispositions), improve their breathing system, and, most of all, to provide them entertainment and satisfaction. Fitness never ought to be the ultimate goal in itself, but a factor stimulating our sense of happiness and enhancing or facilitating our functioning in the contemporary society.