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 Making physical fitness a part of your daily lifestyle. |
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Fitness is key to proper health. We all know that it is required to maintain a health lifestyle. Your fitness activity needs to address the 5 components of physical fitness which include strength endurance resistance and metabolic rate as some of the Key components. But the essential question remains How much exercise and physical activity do you need? |
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How much exercise do I need to be fit? |
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| For many, exercise is a disturbance in the daily schedule. Many people now ask "What is the minimum amount of exercise I can get away with and still be fit?" |
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 What are your fitness goals, do you want to be fit, muscular or healthy? |
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| What is you nutrition like, fast food on the go or freshly made reasonable portions? |
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| What kind of life do you lead? Are you a pc office sit down person, orare you a mail man walking miles and miles a day |
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| What do you do on your off time? hike, tours, museums or do you sit in front of the television like a big couch potato? |
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| Establish your resting metabolic by including factors such as do you smoke, drink caffeinated beverages, etc |
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| Questions like these will determine whether you need the minimum 2/3 hours of weekly fitness exercise or 5 to 7 if you are couch or chair bound all day. |
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Activity is for health |
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Increasing your metabolic rate beyond resting state is vital. Getting your metabolism to be 20 to 30% above your resting state is considered physical fitness and cardio exercise, 30 to 65% above is sports and strength training level. |
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You start exercising when you start sweating is a good indication of metabolic rate increase. At these levels of fitness exercise you are in effect protecting yourself from risks of heart and coronary disease and improving your mental health while burning fat and building your muscle mass. |
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Together with your balanced diet or sports nutrition will help achieve these health benefits but doesn't require the same intensity of training as becoming fit. You can simply build physical activity into your daily routine, replacing mechanical means of locomotion and transport with the human power such as walking an extra tube subway station to the subway and using the stairs rather than escalator or elevator. Simple changes in daily habits will bring fitness into play easily. |
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More effort is required to be fit |
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The desire to be fit would normally require a planned and structured fitness training programme. This is when you are looking for muscle toning muscle building, faster weight loss and cardiac resistance and endurance. These programs are available at a gym, through courses and programs done with professional trainers, by joining sports clubs and taking on sports activities on a regular and structured basis. |
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The key success fitness success criteria is reaching the right level of sports fitness intensity in the exercise plan you have established. In order to be very fit, develop a toned or even muscular body you will need to workout at a medium or high intensity level. If you are seeking balanced health rather than pure physical fitness, intensive fitness programs are not required as apposed leading an active life style. |
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