Fitness, Health And Physique For Survival And The Principles That Govern The Human Body
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Unfit to Optifit #6
Charles Darwin’s Survival of the Fittest states the best suited for survival in their natural environment will flourish and pass their good traits on to future generations.
Well, approximately 100,000 years ago, this process of natural selection finally paid off.
Humans reached an evolutionary level where they became equipped with all of the biological tools necessary for survival in the natural environment.
These tools can be seen in the following principles…
The Principle of Adaptation states your body will adapt to the stresses placed upon it during physical activity by making physical changes allowing the body to perform that activity better and more efficiently in the future.
The Principle of Overload states a greater than normal stress must be placed on the body for the body to respond by adapting… and once the body has adapted, a different stress is required for further change.
The Principle of Progression states there is an optimum level of overload in physical training to produce optimum results… and there is an optimum timeframe for the overload to be applied to produce optimum results.
The Principle of General Adaptation Syndrome, as applicable to physical training, states there must be a period of low intensity training or complete rest after periods of high intensity training.
The Principle of Specificity states your body will adapt to specific stresses by making specific physical changes that will aid in the improvement of specific skills needed to perform that specific activity better and more efficiently.
The Principle of Use Disuse states you must maintain or improve physical skills through physical training and use… or those skills will diminish and disappear.
The Principle of Individual Differences states that each individual person is unique… so each person’s needs and responses to physical training will be different.
These principles provide not only the biological tools enabling us to survive in a cruel, harsh and demanding world… but the ability to flourish in it.
These same principles that evolved over thousands of years with the ultimate goals of human survival, are the same principles that govern the human body in the modern world… and are the keys to fitness, health and beauty.
Coach Eddie Lomax
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Stay tuned for the next installment… The Intervention Of Human Intelligence… More Comfort - Less Fitness!
