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4.(b)     Youthful Exuberance to explore new facets of life in the great outdoors with childhood mates is a significant confidence builder in human's physiological development, which most adults lose due to Six Lifestyle Behaviour Influences

             The Youthful Exuberance Theme is an ideal theme to imbue confidence that commencing a Recreational Exercise Activity is within the ability of Interested Adults 

As kids many of us loved to play in the great outdoors with out mates, and on school holidays some did so from sunup to sunset. 

Scientist, Kim A. McDonald's, paper "The Secrets of Animal Play" insights the function of youthful frolic.  Such Youthful Exuberance is not unusual among social mammals.  From human children to monkeys, whales, and sewer rats, many groups of mammals and even some birds devote a significant part of their youth to various forms of frolicsome play.  For example, chimpanzees enjoy tickling each other and putting bags over their heads in a version of blindman's buff.  Goats, lambs, and big-horn sheep often leap, twist their bodies, and kick for no apparent reason.  Young deer and antelope engage in games of tag, chasing and fleeing.

Starting off virtually immobile and defenseless, young children spend their waking hours pushing against their limits and limitations.  They grasp, reach, roll over, crawl, stand, walk, climb stairs, run, and quickly gain an array of physical skills (an elaborate inner support system) to confront and master their environment.  If you don’t crawl, you’ll never stand; if you don’t stand, you’ll never walk; if you don’t walk, you’ll never run; if you don’t run, you’ll rarely succeed to a successful, enjoyable life. 

Prior to his teenage years, the Writer recalls -

a)        crawling through stormwater drains;

b)        packing gunpowder from "bungers" into a shoe polish tin to blow up a letter box; and

c)        firing stones with a 'V slingshot' powered by two rubber bands.

The joyously unrestrained enthusiasm for life, unbridled energy for random unpredictability, known as Youthful Exuberance, to discover oneself and push the envelope beyond the boundaries set by one's parents to discover new nature frontiers in the great outdoors with childhood mates, is a significant confidence building and physiological development process for young humans, albeit sometimes fraught with danger.

Whilst the above-mentioned social mammals lose some of its appeal for kicking up their heels, humans traditionally lose more of those skills than other mammals who retain things that learnt from exploring behaviour for hunting and surviving.  Other mammals generally don't waste precious assets and invested effort, as humans do. Or if they do extinction may follow. 

Physiological decline occurs upon a pronounced change in lifestyle -

*        from one largely reliant on stimulus

*        to one that is regimented due to Six Lifestyle Behaviour Influences.

Humans are capable of continuing to add to their physiological capabilities for many more years, or at least achieve a balance that makes full use of their innate potential commensurate with the amount of time and resources that have gone into creating those health and physical performance functions.  Pat Farmer and Tony Abbott are two who have blended both.

Humans are hardwired to respond to the varied stimuli within their environment.  Trapped in an un-Challenging Lifestyle Behaviour which encompass only a relatively few demands upon their stimuli, where those demands are repeated over and over again, humans' physical and mental capabilities can't realise full potential.  In addition, increasing physical strength enhances mental capabilities in most adults.

At an early age, most children are bombarded with environmental stimuli, and so they grow.  Most modern adults are not, and so they stop growing and start physically ageing long before they need to. They quickly start to violate the 8 laws of physical health that Pete Egoscue, author of Pain Free, San Diego California, contend are vital for all life.

Pete Egoscue also wrote "The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion: Revolutionary Program That Lets You Rediscover the Body's Power to Rejuvenate It" .

In an I.T. driven world of constant change amidst the influences of Gen Y, many Australians will be forced to vary not just their jobs but their careers more than a few times in their lifetimes.  For Gen Y who find change difficult, this may be stressful.  Introducing a Rigorous Recreational Exercise Activity which regularly explores new outdoor environs will help Interested Adults mentally, emotionally, and physically let go of some facets of their Lifestyle Behaviour.  By reigniting the Youthful Exuberance they learnt as kids, Interested Adults will be better equipped to accept the changes that Seven Problems present, not only less stressfully, but with an adventurous anticipation to discover new nature frontiers in a Common Bond Support Group, just like when they were kids.

In summary, Six Lifestyle Behaviour Influences -

A.         thwart the natural instinct of Youthful Exuberance to explore and discover in the great outdoors, that most social mammals experience; and

B.         dominate modern life and materially mitigate humans capacity to maximise performance and Lifestyle Behaviour. 

In the same manner that one, who has cycled a bicycle or ridden a horse, retains the confidence to get back on a bicycle or another horse, the growth and confidence that was gained from Youthful Exuberance can be re-ignited in the Target Age Groups for Rigorous and Moderate Recreational Exercise Activities, even amongst the elderly in the concept of sprightliness, to instil confidence to recommence enjoyable outdoor exercise. 

Below are URLs to recent newspaper articles which refer to Youthful Exuberance which collectively establish that readers relate Youthful Exuberance to positive attributes to:


        1. energizing the body,   2. motivating the mind and   3. uplifting the spirit:

Hence, the Youthful Exuberance Theme is ideal to imbue confidence to maximise enthusiasm amongst Interested Adults.