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Fitness: Your Body

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Fitness is characterized as being able to deal with and handle the daily stresses of life, good physical and mental health, especially when maintained by proper diet, exercise, and personal habits. Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes is a part of overall fitness. Fitness, therefore, refers to the condition of good physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Fitness of the body is achieved when all the body processes, physical and mental are functioning at their optimum levels. What does it take to reach complete body fitness? It requires more than simply taking a trip to the gym, or a walk in the park.

Many factors must be considered when we take into account our body’s fitness. The daily intake of food, vitamins, and water are absolute necessities, and most often are the first things that come to mind. What about the conditioning of our body to deal with the stress that life dishes out each day?

Does physical exercise have anything to do with the fitness of your body? Of course! For one condition to exist without regard to the other is not a complete whole. The body includes all of our physical processes, our mind, and our physical being as a whole. When we give thought to the fitness of the body, most often we contemplate our physical condition as it applies to our cardiovascular needs, our weight, musculature, internal organ functioning and so forth. But our bodies are much more than a pumping heart and a nice physique.

What about our other organs? Are they fit? How do we maintain a fitness of our entire physical being? Daily physical exercise that benefits the body as a whole, taking time to rest and restore what has been depleted from our body over the course of the day, and making sure that we adequately supply our entire body with the nutrition necessary for healthy function.

If we use our resources wisely and educate our selves about the things our body needs to maintain fitness, over the course of our life, it isn’t a difficult thing to attain. But you cannot abuse your body for years, and then hope for immediate results in trying to attain overall fitness. It didn’t become unfit overnight, and it won’t become fit again that quickly.

Proper attention to the physical needs of each part of your body results in the fitness of the whole. Every part of your physical body exists to work together with another part of the body. Two hands are necessary for optimal functioning of the limbs, two feet, two eyes, etc. The physical body is designed to work better than any machine invented to date. It is the most complex, powerful, and amazing piece of equipment than anything else mankind has ever seen.

It takes more abuse than is believable, and continues to operate, even without the daily requirements being met, for several days. It attempts to repair itself and givers us indications when assistance may be needed. It is a fascinating machine, as machines go. But it is an even more fascinating subject, when we realize that we must choose to care for our bodies as the temples they really are. They house our mind and soul, and when the body is fit, it does its job tremendously well.