Muscle & Fitness Hers
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.