Keeping Fit without the Boredom and Cost
>> Jan 28, 2017
Sometimes we get the
impression that fitness is regarded as something that's an optional extra in
today's busy lifestyle, a fashion accessory for trim and toned models or
yuppies who frequent commercial fitness centres, irrelevant to the everyday
lives of the average person.
That's just not true.
In biology, fitness is defined as the ability of an individual and the species
it belongs to adapt to changing conditions and survive. So in biological terms
there are two types of people: the fit and the dead.
Everyone alive today
has some level of Fitness. This "survival and reproduction"
definition isn't what we generally think of when the word fitness is mentioned.
The definition of
fitness is the ability to be free from injury and illness, be able to do work,
to recover from that work, and then come back and do more work.
Fitness is also
relative, a fitter individual is healthier, can do more work, recovers more
quickly, and then will go back and do it all over again; a less fit individual
is less healthy, might be able to do the work once, but then takes weeks to get
over the stress and strain, and has not even the slightest interest in going
back and subjecting themselves to all that inconvenience ever again!
Another impression we
sometimes get is that you have to pay money to buy fitness. This attitude says
that if you want to get fit, you have to go to a fitness centre or a
"weight loss" centre, and pay someone lots of money to give you some
fitness.
This isn't true.
You're the only one who can get your body fit.
Sure you can get
advice from someone with more experience, education and knowledge, and you may
have to pay them for this advice. But in the end it gets back to the basic fact
that if you want to increase your fitness, you're going to have to make
exercise a part of your everyday life. This can include going to a commercial
fitness business, but if you want to save money and time, you can exercise at
home.
This is harder as
there are more distractions (such as family demands, friends, TV, chores, and
lack of space), there is less motivation than getting involved in a friendly
group of exercisers, but it is certainly cheaper!
Before you get
started on an exercise program, you'll ask yourself the ultimate question -
"Why bother?". Have a think about the definition of fitness.
Not the survival and
reproduction one, as this is a clean, family column, but the one about being
fit enough to do work, recover, and come back and do it again where a less fit
person would give up.
When we talk about
exercise we are not talking about working you to exhaustion, but about
increasing the quality of your everyday life. We want to be able to get out
there and enjoy all the challenges that life offers us - social, mental,
spiritual, emotional as well as physical. Without vitality, stamina, and the
right attitude life can be seen as boring, tiring, and trying.
Keep your body in
good operating condition and you'll be equipped to convert the problems of life
into challenges to be met and overcome. As you do this your life becomes
exciting and interesting.
If your body can cope
with the physical stresses of life, you will become better able to cope with
all the other stresses of life. Your quality of life will improve.
You should bother, so
let's quickly go through all those excuses you are going to use about the
commonly perceived negative aspects of exercise. Then you can get started on
using exercise to improve the quality of your life.
People are afraid of
exercise, especially as they get older, because they associate exercise with
pain and discomfort. This only happens if you try and rush things, or if you
get so wrapped up in the process of getting fitter and fitter that you forget about
the fact that your body can only take so much strain before something breaks.
If you're sensible
about your approach to exercise, you should rarely get injured. Pain isn't a
part of getting fitter.
"Exercise is too
hard!"
Chronic fatigue is
another excuse that people use to avoid getting fitter. If you are still
fatigued one hour after an exercise session, you've failed. Instead of getting
your body fitter, you have damaged it so that it needs time to recover.
Exercise to increase your level of vitality, not to put yourself in a constant
state of fatigue.
"Exercise is too
time consuming!"
Before you decide if
this is true, think about how you use your time. Take a look around your house,
and you'll see that it's full of time-saving and labour saving gadgets. And
what do you do with all this time you have saved?
Do you use it to
improve yourself, or do you save all this time just to waste it watching TV?
How about you invest some of your time savings in improving the functional
efficiency of the one thing standing between you and death - your body.
Author bio: Scarlett
is a Health/Diet expert from New Jersey. She enjoys learning about a wide
variety of Health/Beauty issues, and playing the piano. She is the author of
many well-known beauty articles, such as How to Look Pretty and Be Like a Model, and 50 Ways to Be Pretty and Popular.
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