Health And Fitness

Health And Fitness

What is health & fitness lets explore it:

Health

 The word health refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well being. Good health is central to handling and living a longer more active life.

In other words;

"A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities." 

Benefits of a health lifestyle:

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) promotes four main elements of a health lifestyle using the acronym SNAP, which stand for:

• Smoking - affects every organ of your body. Call Quit line or visit the Quit website for online resources to help you stop smoking.
• Nutrition - affect your overall physical and mental health.
• Alcohol - can affect you overall physically and mentally in the short and long term.
• Physical activity - can improve overall health and reduce your chronic disease risk. Aim for 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a day.

The benefits of living a healthy lifestyle :

• Reducing the risk of most diseases, including heart disease, stroke and diabetes
• Improving your joint stability, flexibility, strength, stamina and range of movement
• Helping to maintain flexibility, balance and coordination as per your age
• Maintaining bone density, prevention osteoporosis and bone fractures
• Reducing the symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression, and improving your sense of wellness and mood
• Improving self-esteem and self-confidence
• Improving sharpness and clarity of mind, including memory
• improving your ability to recover from illness
• Increasing the length of life.

Being physically fit means you are less likely to get injured doing physical activity or in everyday life. If you do get injured, you are likely to recover quicker than if you were unfit.

Fitness

What does it mean to be fit?

According to dictionary, fitness means: "the quality or state of being fit."

And that's sort of the point, according to exercise experts. Fitness doesn't have to mean that you're an ultra- marathoner or that you can mean different things for different people.

Traditionally, experts have defined five key components of physical fitness: body composition (the relative proportion of fat and fat-free tissues in the body), cardio respiratory pr aerobic fitness, flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance, according to the American college of Sports Medicine. But you can't discount the impact of nutrition, sleep, and mental and emotional health on fitness either.

That means looking fit doesn't mean you actually are.

"Some individuals obsess on their physical appearance and numbers but are motivated by low self-esteem and criticize the flaws of their physical appearance. Some sacrifice rest and sleep in order to achieve further success but, in turn, drive their body into illness or burnout, "

When all of the components of fitness are balanced, physically and mentally, we get the most benefit.

11 Facts about human body:

• The human body had 650 muscles.
• The only exercise you should hold your breath for is underwater swimming.
• The heart id the strongest muscle in the body.
• Nearly 50% of all young people age 12-21 are not vigorously active on a daily bases.
• For every pound of muscle gained, the body burns 50 extra calories every day. 
• Only 13% of men are physically fit.
• More than 30%of children age 6 to 11 are overweight, and over 15% are obese.
• On average, a person walks 70,000 miles in their lifetime.
• Roughly 4,000 children and teenagers begin smoking every day. 
• Exercise makes you feel more energized because it releases endorphins into the blood.
• Movement in exercise helps relive stress by producing a relation response which serves as a position distraction.