Lifetime Fitness

Lifetime Fitness

Lifetime fitness is a commitment to yourself that should not be considered a short term plan only whilst you are unfit and overweight. It must be viewed as a regime for life, one that will increase your lifespan and quality of life. The decision is yours, but it is one that must be treated seriously with actions that need to be taken on a regular basis. Lifetime fitness and health is a commitment to a lifestyle change in order to live a happier, healthier, fitter life!

Rapid developments in medicine and technology have increased the average persons lifespan in America from approximately 47 years in 1900 to just 0ver 77 years at the turn of the millennium. Unfortunately, these increases have absolutely nothing to do with lifetime fitness and health programs. People may live longer but they are not healthier or fitter so do not enjoy the advances that medicine has brought them, in fact it is quite the reverse. A healthy lifetime fitness program should not include cigarette smoking because smoking has been linked to chronic respiratory conditions and of course, cancer.

Currently a third of high school students across America do not get involved in any lifetime fitness programs recommended by the Surgeon General and the governments Council on Physical Fitness. It is a noted fact that when children and young people do not take part in physical activities that it continues into adulthood, where lifetime fitness and health programs are ignored leading to many physical and emotional problems. Recent studies by the National Institute on Aging indicate only 58 percent of the American population take part in an exercise regime and less than half of those do so three or more times a week as part of their lifetime fitness program. The equation is simple: Too much food plus too little exercise equals weight gain and health problems.

So how does a lifetime fitness and exercise program improve your quality of life? Well, with the exception of accidental deaths, most other leading forms of death could be avoided or delayed with a health regime that should include exercise, a healthy low fat low cholesterol diet, and no smoking. When a lifetime fitness and health program includes a diet that is low in cholesterol, there’s a significant reduction of fatty deposits found in the arteries. Too many fatty deposits cause clogging of the arteries. When that happens, reduced amounts of blood and oxygen circulate to the coronary arteries and this can ultimately lead to a heart attack or stroke.

Exercise fitness presents us with many benefits as it helps maintain healthy body weight and prevent development of diabetes, high blood pressure, and other health problems associated with obesity. Food we consume or ‘Fuel’ can be burnt more efficiently and improve our overall sense of wellbeing.

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John, a fitness enthusiast