10 Things You Do That You Didn't Know Ruin Your Life

8. Working Out

Right, so you're not really supposed to eat your veggies, and you've been sleeping wrong, but surely your weekly Zumba class is the right thing to do, right? Wrong. If your pet cat could talk, he would probably be completely baffled by the idea of purposefully wasting your energy for no good reason. In the animal kingdom, all energy is conserved until expending it is absolutely necessary, either to chase some poor gazelle or run away from a lion. Purposefully knacking yourself out by running on a treadmill and not even going anywhere means that you'll be completely unable to run away from a predator if you need to. Not only that, but maintaining an unnecessary amount of muscle is incredibly energy consuming. Muscle is three times as metabolically active as fat, meaning that a pound of muscle will burn six calories a day just by existing, as opposed to two calories a day from fat. Doesn't sound like much, but it all adds up, particularly once you start doing things like climbing stairs and doing bicep curls. Speaking of bicep curls, the gym-bro, top-heavy physique is also a total abomination to mother nature. Up until the invention of the squat rack, the kinds of exercise people were doing consisted of full-body compound movements like ploughing fields and swinging a sword into someone else's face. Isolating individual muscles, then pounding back a sugary protein shake, will earn you one of those fat-strong bodies, as opposed to lean and strong. This doesn't mean stop exercising, by the way, being at the top of the food chain means that you can now enjoy the privilege of wasting your time doing sit ups if you really want to.