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Introduction to Physical Fitness
For years everyone has known that regular exercise along with good
nutrition is good for their health. The trick is how to build sound
exercise habits and a balanced diet into your busy schedule. The stress of
modern times mandates that you develop and maintain a fit, trim and fully
functioning body. Being active and physically fit heightens your
self-expression and self-esteem.
Research polls indicate that people today are becoming more health
centered. As a result, people are becoming more interested in making
fitness exercise an integral part of their life-style. This article will
introduce you to the why of fitness. You will learn all about exercise and
it's benefits and will also learn how to structure a personal exercise
program that is safe, reasonable, effective, and, most important,
rewarding and fun.
Give some thought to the following statements:
* In the past, health meant only absence of disease. Today we have a much
broader perspective and consider physical fitness to be a key component of
total health.
* The modern life-style fosters unfitness because technological advances
have eliminated much fitness producing physical exertion from everyday
activities.
* Everyday activities, even for the laborer, no longer adequately
stimulate the heart, lungs, and muscles to produce physiological benefits.
* Society, especially the corporate world, is beginning to realize the
importance of health promotion and the role of exercise in developing and
maintaining good health habits.
* Being physically fit means living at your fullest physical potential.
Physical fitness is the capability of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and
muscles to function at optimal efficiency. It provides a basis for living
a full and rewarding life style.
* The basic health components of physical fitness are cardio-respiratory
endurance, strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body
composition.
* To be physically fit does take effort (yes, some sweat, too!), but
exercise does not have to be punishing to help you develop and maintain
physical fitness.
* Regular and vigorous exercise of the total body is a necessary
ingredient of muscular and circulatory fitness - the key to good health
and well being.
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