All Levels - Introduction to Fitness

 Introduction to Fitness

What is Fitness?

    - Fitness is the condition of being physically fit and healthy. It's the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment. 

    Fitness is a very important factor in one's health and wellness. It doesn't necessarily mean you're in shape or athletic, it simply means your body is able to survive in its environment. However, to many people, fitness is more of the fact of your health and athleticism. When you think of someone physically fit you think of someone who is in shape, strong, and attractive. So, I will take this as the "real" definition of fitness. 

    Fitness is made up of 4 main concepts: Health, diet, lifestyle, and exercise.

Health

    The health aspect of fitness simply is your own body's ability to survive. Someone who is less healthy than another person is someone who has a shorter life span has more difficulty doing regular tasks, has any bodily damages, or has any impairments that a regular person would not have. This is not necessarily bad, and many of these are out of the person's control. However, some of this can be caused by a person's own doing, but don't worry it usually can be reversed, or at least helped. This is the most important part of fitness since it has to do with your own lifespan and ease in life. This will be discussed further in its own lesson.

Diet

    A person's diet is simply what they consume on a daily basis. This is very hard to judge usually since everyone's body is different and therefore requires different needs. Some people need more food and water than others, which works both ways. Diet consists of subgroups such as food, water, and supplements. These go even smaller into sub-subgroups where you get into macronutrients, micronutrients, absorption, etc. This is the second most important part of fitness since it will directly affect all other aspects of your fitness. This will be discussed further in its own lesson. 

Lifestyle

    Your lifestyle will affect all aspects of your fitness. Lifestyle is similar you're the way you live your day-to-day life. Like do you walk to work or drive, do you smoke or drink, do you have a construction job or are you a cop? All these are examples of your lifestyle. These all affect parts of your life and in turn your fitness. This however is very complicated and will need to be addressed by its own personal lessons in the future. 

Exercise

    Lastly, we have the exercise portion. This is what most people think about when I say "fitness". Exercising is crucial to living a good life as it keeps your body active and adapting to many conditions. There are many different types of exercise, such as cardio, weight training, yoga, and calisthenics. Exercise can also be done almost anywhere at any time so it's usually the easiest way to increase your overall fitness. I will be discussing this further in a future lesson. 

What do I Intend to Accomplish with my Blog?

    My purpose in writing this blog is to hopefully get out there and change someone's life. I'm here to take all the knowledge I've gained over the years, share it with others, and pass it on. I also would like to share my passion for fitness and hopefully awaken someone else's passion. I will be updating regularly and adding more lessons for people to learn from. I will also be sharing my personal fitness journey to hopefully motivate someone out there to start their own fitness journey. Thank you for taking the time to learn with me.