By Coach Eddie Lomax
Are you frustrated looking for the perfect physical fitness program or fitness product. You know, the one that naturally develops your best body, improves the physical abilities you need to enjoy a healthy, happy and active life and fits your personality and lifestyle?
You're not alone!
Fitness is a word commonly used in today's society, yet very much misunderstood. The sad fact is, nailing down a clear, universal definition of physical fitness is no small task.The more you search for a definition of physical fitness to establish common ground, the more frustrating the search becomes.
Why?
One reason is because physical fitness brings to mind very different images for different people. The definition of physical fitness actually changes depending on who you ask.
For example...
A Bodybuilder defines fitness in terms of size, definition, and proportionality of specific muscle groups.
A Power Lifter defines fitness in terms of maximum strength for specific lifts.
A Sprinter in terms of speed.
A Marathoner in terms of endurance, etc.
As you can see, the attributes of value used to define fitness are usually closely linked to the activity the person asked is involved in.
Undoubtedly, in your search for the fitness program right for you, you have come across...
- Bodybuilding Programs
- Strength Programs
- Sport Programs
- "Cardio" Programs
- Fat Loss Programs
.... as well as a whole host of fitness fads.
And no doubt, each one of the programs proclaimed to have "the" answer to fitness success.
But you are still left asking...
"Which type of physical fitness program or fitness product will guide me to a higher level of fitness, improved health and an attractive physique?”
What about physical fitness for the rest of us?
Could it be most people are unclear as to what fitness really is, or are operating from a very different definition of physical fitness?
The Much Needed Universal
Definition
Of Physical Fitness
Once you understand this universal definition of physical fitness, you’ll realize how important it is to your over-all physical training choices. It may leave you wondering how you ever made an informed decision about your training without it.
The Definition Of Physical Fitness:
Fitness is 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. |
That was a mouthful, you better read that again!
True fitness is not about improving one or two physical abilities, but improving all the physical abilities of fitness. Because within this definition of physical fitness is this important fact. Fitness is a compromise. As you can plainly see, fitness is about physical ability optimization... not physical skill maximization.
The definition of physical fitness makes one thing crystal clear...
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 you are.
As a result of improving these performance abilities, your body makes positive, visible changes, manifesting your physical fitness capabilities as a strong, lean, athletic body.
The fit body you want (lean, muscular, athletic) is not the result of being excellent at one particular activity. It is the culmination, and visual representation of all the physical abilities you posses. This is very important for those of you who are interested in physical training because you want to look better. The way you look is determined by your performance abilities!
So, don’t just look fit… BE FIT!
To explore this concept further I’ve expanded the definition of fitness and call it OptiFitness. See why you should make OptiFitness your training goal and succeed?
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