Monday, November 3, 2014
Are You Fit?
Fitness refers to ability of the
body to function with vigor and alertness.
Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it
healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all the
necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our
daily life processes. But do we know if
we are really fit? How do we tell?
First, you might want to look at
your exercise habits, if there are any.
If there aren’t any exercise routines to examine, no fitness. Everyone, no matter what their age, benefits
from exercise. It keeps our bodies
conditioned, our mental sharpness working at top speed, and thanks to the
physical aspect, we get a boost to our cardio health, extra calorie burn, and
more oxygen to those cells!
Do you take in more calories
than your body needs? Are you
supplementing your vitamins and minerals to make sure you are getting your
recommended daily allowances? If you’re
not making the most basic of efforts to take care of your nutritional needs,
you aren’t a fit individual. You may not
look sick, you may not have any noticeable symptoms of ill-health, but you’re
not the fit and toned individual you could be.
What about the stress levels in
your life? Do work in an environment
with high levels of stress? Is your
personal life a source of comfort or does it add to your stress levels? Do you engage in some form of
stress-relieving activity? Stress is the
number on contributor to heart attacks and strokes, since they manage to speed
up the affect of the real culprits.
Stress is basically an out of control situation for most adults
today. We manage to schedule every
moment of our free time, and leave ourselves with no time for quiet reflection,
or time to deal with life’s unexpected emergencies.
Fitness requires us to examine
more than just our exercise routine. The
mere definition of fitness refers to the body’s ability to meet physical
stresses. That includes coping with our day to day life, getting from the
beginning of the day to the end, without being worn completely out. In order to
be truly fit, we find ways to rid ourselves of built up stress, the kind that
begins to affect our muscles, muscle tone, and composition. Massages are the best cure for ridding our
bodies of the stress buildup that can occur, even with exercise regimens and
detract from our overall fitness.
Exercises that demand total body
involvement are the best for maintaining and improving your level of fitness
most effectively. Running, swimming,
jogging, dancing, cycling, and very brisk walking are some of the more popular
total body involvement exercises.
There are so many occasions to
stop and question our efforts at maintaining optimal health, that we usually
don’t even take the time to begin the examination. But it is beneficial to our
overall health, the quality and quantity of our life, to make every effort to
be fit, healthy, individuals.
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