What is Fitness?

Fitness isn’t how many miles you run, or how many squats you can do. It’s not the medals hanging on your wall or the food you eat. Fitness isn’t abs, pecs, quads, biceps, triceps or lats.

Fitness is what happens when we wake up and want to roll back over and sleep for another hour. Fitness is not hitting the snooze button. And braving the snow, rain, and hail. Fitness is forcing your body to keep running when your mind tells you to quit.

Fitness is not about being thin, having a small waist, or having bulging muscles. It is a combination of qualities that enable us to be at our full potential in performing vigorous physical activities. Physical Fitness involves the performance of the heart, lungs, and the muscles of the body. Specifically, it takes into account our Cardio Respiratory Endurance, Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, and Flexibility. To some extent, Fitness also influences our mental and emotional development since what we do with our bodies also affects what we can do with our minds.

Although Physical Fitness and good health influences each other, they are not the same. Healthy people could be physically unfit due to lack of exercise. On the other hand, Physically Fit people perform their everyday tasks effortlessly.