"The Way to Health & Vitality"

How do you define physical fitness? Well it is not about how muscular you look, rather it is simply your ability to carry on with your regular activities with appropriate energy levels yet after the entire day you do not feel stressed out or at least can handle various pressures effectively.
Physical fitness is defined by certain individual components including, muscular strength, and muscular endurance, composition of your body mainly related to the ratio of fat in body, flexibility and lastly cardio respiratory endurance.

If you are able to make slight changes in the following factors you can actually reach the ultimate physical fitness level. Like reducing the fat content and increasing the muscular endurance.


On the other hand set of factors like your speed, muscle power, coordination between your eyes, hand and foot contributes towards motor fitness, though it has no such role in physical fitness yet if you are an aspiring athlete, then your performance might be effected by these factors. Again if you just merge this motor fitness factor with the general physical fitness components, then no doubt you would be ever energetic and internally very strong.

There are certain basic principles for exercise and one must be adhered to these principles in order to gain long term health benefits. These basic principles are same for everyone be it an athlete or a normal person who might prefer just a jog instead of vigorous exercise.

Some of these basic principles of physical fitness are:

1. Maintaining regularity in exercise:
Whatever exercise you opt for may be vigorous workout or just a simple walk, make sure you follow the regime regularly without any gap. As infrequent exercise schedule might harm your body too. And no doubt same applies to your diet, rest and other routines also.


2. Slow progress in exercise
Never start your workout routine with heavy exercises this might strain your muscles, instead start with mild ones and gradually move on to next level.

3. Balancing the exercises

Any exercise would be effective only if it is complete in its own way. This implies that any exercise you undertake must focus on every aspect of physical fitness without giving more importance to any single component.


4. Incorporate variety of exercises

If you are including a variety of exercises in your routine then obviously it would be more interesting and motivating too.


5. be specific about your goal

Fix a goal where you want to reach, for example if you want to loose weight then go for specific weight training rather following the crowd

6. Keep alternate days for easier workouts

If one day you are involved in vigorous exercise, then try to go for a mild one next day, giving your body enough time to recover. This is very important as your body too needs to relax in between.

7. Work out a bit more than your body needs

Yes, if you need to loose 5 kg, sweat out up to level wherein you can also loose up to 10 kg to put proper pressure on your body and bring about that worked out effect.