Evolving Exercise Medicine Concepts growing need for Replicable, Economical & All Round Exercise Regimens in Developing Countries.

Background: Exercise has become a commercial industry today. The purpose of a healthy mind in a healthy body has become diluted. We tried to answer the question that does extra money and time spent in gyms have extra benefit over traditional holistic exercise program. Methodology: 20 young healthy adults between 30-40 yrs were divided into 2 groups, 10 who attended the gym and 10 who attended Yoga school to do SuryaNamaskar. At the end of the month, time and money spent on the exercise was evaluated. All participants who before starting exercise were averagely 60-62 points reached 70-73 points by both systems of training . Results: Averagely the gym group spent 70 mins six times a week & Rs 12800 in the first month of training. Comparatively, the Suryanamaskar group spent just 30 mins for six days a week & had almost no expense. Therefore to achieve same levels of mental and physical fitness, gymgoers needed more than double the time and approximately more than 12 times the expense. Discussion: The administration should wake up to 1. Need for prevention based health program. 2. Use of traditional systems like yoga to achieve same fitness goals in lesser time with lesser expenses. 3. More studies like this are needed to prevent blind imitation of the western fitness protocols. Conclusion: Exercises like Surya Namaskar are holistic, need lesser time & money. In addition such protocols effect simultaneously, endurance, flexibility, strength, core stability, body ergonomics, mind, emotions & temperament. No separate practices are needed for each of these goals.