What Are Your Fitness Needs?
What Are Your Fitness
Needs?
As we go
about our busy lives, our fitness needs do not often come to mind. In fact, probably the only thought that is
given to our fitness needs relates to the 15 pounds we think we need to lose. But even when we are fairly fit, we have
needs that help us to sustain that fitness.
Have you ever given thought to what those needs are?
Meditation,
an exercise recommended for everyone, but especially those of us with hectic,
stressful lifestyles, is defined as an engagement in contemplation, especially
of a spiritual or devotional nature.
Meditation has been shown to relieve stress, and promote overall good
health, by simply reflecting upon our day, and finding happiness within
ourselves.
Your nutritional needs levels are dependent upon your eating
habits and whether you use daily supplements of vitamins and minerals in order
for you to sustain optimum physical health.
Much discussion is centered on this topic right now, because our nation
faces obesity problems of epidemic proportions.
Our eating habits make up a large portion of our nutritional daily
intake. What we consume goes a long way
to keeping our bodies fit.
Do we understand what our
nutritional requirements are, how to fulfill those requirements, and how to
look for real nutritional value in our foods?
I’m not sure that nutrition has been successfully addressed in its own
right. We hear nutrition in relation to
our vitamin intake, our fortified cereals and milk, and in the context that we
need “nutritional value” from our food choices.
But what really is nutrition when applied to our daily bodily functions? 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. Quite often,
our vitamin and mineral needs outweigh our caloric needs. In those instances, we turn to manufactured
vitamins and minerals to fill the gap.
Alternative
medicine options such as chiropractic care, acupuncture, herbal cures, and
holistic medicine are all ways we can help to keep ourselves fit. All of these alternative healing approaches
offer ways to incorporate their use into staying fit and healthy. Of the examples given here, chiropractic and
acupuncture are becoming more widely accepted as complements to the traditional
forms of exercise and nutrition. Herbal
cleansing and healing are used by many to provide for ways for body keep itself
in a state of fitness and optimal health.
What
role does exercise play in this process?
Well, exercise conditions our body to keep it in optimal shape. To keep muscles functioning correctly and
build muscle mass. The more muscle mass
we have, the more calories we burn. The
more calories we burn, the better our metabolism is at using up the calories we
take in through food consumption. Can you begin to see how our body is really a
well functioning machine? It’s a
continual circle of events, one feeding off the other. When all the events are coming together
properly, we are healthy, happy individuals.
Today, we must determine how much
nourishment we need, how much physical exercise we need, and how best to
accomplish those ends. Calorie needs,
nutritional needs, physical needs, and education about those needs now is
information we should all understand, at least as it applies to our ability to
maintain our fitness levels. If you will
visit your local doctor, library, or fitness center, there is massive amounts
of information available to help educate and to help you make good health
choices, no matter what the ultimate goal, fitness maintenance, or fitness
improvement.
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