Digest:
Comprehensive Universal Benefits:
Fitness benefits are long lasing and non-discriminatory. They neither fade with age nor are they age, gender of lifestyle restrictive.
In fact, fitness is for everyone, not just athletes, jocks, and young people.
Fitness is universal; it can involve a single individual or a group, and it can be non-competitive or competitive.
Personal identify magnifier:
A fit body maximizes personal identity.
Fitness levels reflect individual dynamics and mirrors, each interesting personality, response to challenge, and engagement in life.
Fitness is a basic element in maximizing a life plan, and combines good nutrition, intelligent eating habits, and regular medical consultation, and, completes the task of taking charge of one's own body.
Specific Physical, Mental and Spiritual Benefits:
Fitness participation promotes:
■ Increased-
□ Muscular strength and muscular size
□ Bone strength and bone size
□ Joint strength and joint size
□ Connective tissue strength
□ Muscular endurance, including the heart
□ Lung performance
□ Flexibility and range of motion
□ Energy level
□ Blood flow, including to and in the brain
□ Resting metabolic rate (amount of calories burned at rest)
□ Feeling of vitality and well-being
□ Self-confidence
■ Decreased-
□ Body fat
□ Triglyceride level
□ Resting heart rate
□ Stress level
□ High blood pressure
□ Waist size &/or girth around middle
■ Reduced-
□ Effects of aging
□ Memory loss
□ Inflammation and oxidation stress
■ Balanced-
□ Cholesterol level
□ Spiritual and emotional condition
Could you ask for more?