What Is A Healthy Body?
It’s a body that helps you achieve you goals.
It gives you the energy you need for work and play.
It provides you with the stamina you need for the lifestyle you want.
It provides a reserve when you face health challenges and emergencies.
It’s strong so you can take care of yourself at any age.
Above all, it’s a body with a normal weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar level.
That’s what a healthy body is, you can have one too. Here we show you the way, but know this: you need to earn your healthy body every day.
There are two major parts to a healthy body: nutrition and exercise. We will focus on the exercise and will take up nutrition in another post.
There are two body systems you want operating well because every other system relies on them: the heart and blood vessels, called the cardiovascular system and the muscular system. Therefore, you need two types of training to be fit: cardio-exercise and weight- training.
Cardio exercise
The body depends on the heart and blood vessels to transport good things into your body’s cells and cellular waste products out. To be fit and healthy, you need this system working at peak capacity. When this system works well, you can:
- Reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease-both heart attack and stroke
- Reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes
- Make bone stronger
- Reduce body fat
- Improve the functioning of your digestive system
- Improve immune function
- Reduce stress level
- Increased libido and decreased impotence
- Improve your hearing and memory… And list goes on, but we think you get the point
Muscular system and weight-training
Building muscle is important for times when we need strength, such as carrying heavy objects. But did you know that muscle mass is metabolically more active than fat? Adding muscle will use calories all day long. So in order to rev it up, you need to build it up.
Too many people invest time but don’t focus on the quality of their workouts. Most of the people who spend hours in the gym aren’t working hard the entire time, and lounging around and dawdling won’t improve your health. When it comes to fitness, you only get out what you put into it. It isn’t so much the quantity but the quality of exercise that important.
May 21 2008 06:53 pm | Fitness