There's More To Fitness Than How Much You Weigh
by Britannia Findlay
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Something that most people don't realise is that physically there is
little correlation between fitness and weight. Your weight does not define
how fit you are. Obviously if your weight is too high it has an effect on
how fit you are, and it certainly has an effect on your health but the
relation between weight and fitness is nowhere near as strong as most
people believe.
The only true test of fitness is how much exercise you can do. As your
fitness improves, you will have greater stamina and be able to do more
exercise. And as your fitness increases you will almost certainly start to
lose weight.
If your goal is to not only lose weight, but to keep that weight off,
and to keep it off in a natural way - not using some fad diet - then you
should look at increasing your overall fitness level, and the level of
exercise you get everyday. Diet and exercise go hand in hand, diet will
not be truly effective without exercise.
If you start with exercise, then you'll begin to build and tone muscle
in your entire body first, instead of just trying to burn away fat. In
fact, the worst thing you can do is to start on a diet first without
exercise. Instead of burning away your fat, in that case, the chances are
good that your body will burn muscle tissue instead. That is something
that you definitely don't want to happen, since it will make exercising
harder for you in the future.
If you exercise regularly you will be more fit than somebody who gets
no exercise, this holds true no matter what your respective weights are.
So no matter what diet plan you begin you should accompany it with extra
exercise.
Of course if you want to really increase your fitness then you will
need to do more than a casual bit of exercise. You will need to be more
methodical in your approach to exercise and do more than one type of
exercise. You will need to be doing some cardiovascular exercise and some
basic strength exercises.
For your cardiovascular exercise - which is basically any type of
exercise that increases your heart rate by considerable amounts - you
should work on being able to exercise for a longer period of time than you
could before.
This will enable you to build up some stamina.
Strength training will tone your body and increase your strength. While
it won't necessarily make you fitter, it will make you look and feel
better and give you visible, confidence-building results.
This strength training does not necessarily mean lifting weights or
hanging around a gym, you can do a really effective strength training
workout in the comfort of your own home with little or no equipment. A
small amount of training like this can make all the differnce in your
fitness program.
Regardless of your weight, you can be at a suitable fitness level just
by adding a suitable amount and type of exercise to your daily life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Britannia Findlay is the Webmaster of FOCAL.
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