Definition Of Fitness For Optimum Fitness, Lasting Health And Your Best Body
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Installment # 10 Once you understand this universal definition of fitness, you realize how important it is to your over-all success… and wonder how you ever trained without it.
The Universal Definition Of Fitness… The acceptable and deliberate compromise of competence and ability to perform in all the areas of cardiorespiratory endurance, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, accuracy and toughness to produce optimum performance results under the greatest amount of circumstances.Here are the physical abilities in more detail…
-Cardiorespiratory EnduranceThe level of ability your body has to gather, process, deliver and sustain oxygen to produce energy needed for the successful completion of activity… allowing you to do more, longer.
-StrengthThe level of ability your body has to exert muscular/skeletal force for maximum, explosive and endurance movements against resistance… allowing you to be stronger in a greater number of circumstances.
-PowerThe level of ability your body has to exert force against resistance causing the object of resistance to accelerate or change position with speed… allowing you to exert explosive force with your body and other objects.
-SpeedThe level of ability your body has to move a part of the body or the entire body over a short distance as quickly as possible… allowing you to become stronger and faster by targeting the nervous system.
-FlexibilityThe level of ability a joint displays to move freely through a full range of motion… allowing you to be stronger over a greater range of motion and reduce the risk of injury.
-BalanceThe level of ability to control placement of the body’s center of gravity in relation to its support base… allowing you to perform from a solid, stable foundation.
-CoordinationThe level of ability to combine several different muscles, groups of muscles, energy systems and movement patterns into a singular, distinct and purposeful movement… allowing you to move seamlessly and effortlessly from one physical ability to another to successfully complete a task.
-AgilityThe level of ability to minimize transaction time from one movement pattern to another… allowing you keep your balance while changing direction, stopping, starting, slowing down or increasing speeds quickly.
-AccuracyThe level of ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity while remaining correct, exact and without mistakes… allowing you to control your body and other objects with precision.
-ToughnessThe level of physical and/or mental ability to do something which is difficult or will take a long time… allowing you the mental and physical fortitude to successfully complete difficult tasks under difficult circumstances.
The more competent you are in all of the physical abilities and the larger set of circumstances in which you can successfully apply those abilities… the fitter, healthier and more attractive you will be.
As a result of improving these performance abilities, your body makes positive, visible changes that reflect your fitness capabilities… Developing a strong, lean, athletic body.
Basing your physical training program on this definition of fitness enables you to focus on optimizing the physical abilities needed for optimum fitness while creating the visible qualities of the optimum physique… and not focusing on maximizing one physical ability for specialized performance while creating a one-dimensional body.
Coach Eddie Lomax
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Stay tuned for the next installment… What Is OptiFitness?
