{"id":7309,"date":"2019-10-05T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/05\/fit-for-what\/"},"modified":"2019-10-05T22:20:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:20:15","slug":"fit-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/fit-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Fit For What"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><body>&#13;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\">&#13;<br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/abbtop.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.website.ws\/kvmlm2\/my.dhtml?sponsor=geekzonehostingcom&amp;bannercode=gif002&amp;language=english\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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align=\"left\" height=\"19\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style2\">by: &#13;<br \/>\n                <font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#FB7014\">Tanja Gardner<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"12\"><span class=\"style2\">Copyright 2005 Tanja Gardner<\/p>\n<p>Unless we\u0092re talking about our bodies, and the amount of exercise they can do, we usually talk about being fit in relation to something. An object is \u0091fit for use\u0092, clothing  is \u0091fit to be worn at work\u0092, and food is \u0091fit to be eaten\u0092.  My parents used to have a running joke that they were fit \u0096 fit to drop!  Everything else is fit &#8216;for something&#8217;.  So why do we insist on describing ourselves as \u0091fit\u0092 or \u0091unfit\u0092 without relating the concepts to anything else?<\/p>\n<p>GENERAL PRINCIPLES<br \/>It\u0092s a basic truth that the human body wasn\u0092t made to sit still for any length of time. We spent tens of thousands of years evolving in an environment that required us to move \u0096 to find shelter, to catch food, and to keep ourselves safe from predators.  We\u0092ve only been living lifestyles that allow us to be sedentary for the lesser part of a hundred years \u0096 not nearly enough time for evolution to adapt our bodies to this new environment.  We see this constantly reflected in modern rates of heart disease, atherosclerosis, chronic aches and pains, and muscular and bone deterioration in people who have become inactive as they age.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, activity has a very real effect on both stress and energy levels.  Our bodies have a \u0091use-it-or-lose-it\u0092 way with energy \u0096 if we don&#8217;t constantly use and then replace energy (with activity, followed by rest and good nutrition),  we start noticing our energy levels gradually draining away. We feel tired, lethargic, and as though any amount of effort is just too much to be worth it.  And if we\u0092re also under stress \u0096 for example, at work, or in a difficult relationship \u0096 we feel the energy loss and the stress even more intensely.<\/p>\n<p>These are general principles that seem to be true whoever we are. But different lifestyles require different amounts of energy, and exact different prices in terms of stress.  We enjoy doing, and our bodies are suited for, different kinds of activity. It makes sense then, that the amount and type of activity that will help us reach our optimum fitness, will be different.<\/p>\n<p>DIFFERENT STROKES<br \/>If that\u0092s the case, then getting \u0091fit\u0092 without a frame of reference seems like a meaningless concept.  Unless we know what we want to be \u0091fit for\u0092 \u0096 what fitness means to us \u0096 there\u0092s no reason for us to get or stay that way.  If my life is basically calm, quiet and easy-flowing, and I\u0092m quite happy to keep it that way, my \u0091optimum fitness\u0092 is going to be very different to someone who\u0092s discovered a deep fulfillment in setting themselves a goal and achieving it.  Someone who\u0092d just like to go for a walk with friends without getting puffed is going to have a different optimum fitness level to someone who wants to discover how it feels to finish a marathon.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, what people want often changes over time.  Perhaps at one point in your life, you enjoyed spending a couple of hours a day exercising, but now you\u0092re finding there are things you\u0092d like to do far more with that time.  Alternatively, when you first started creating your optimum life for yourself, it might have been enough for you to just keep your body healthy. As you tried new activities though, you might have discovered you were actually enjoying some of them for their own sake, and wanting to get fitter so you could do more of them.  So at different times in your life, you\u0092d have a  different optimum fitness level.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE \u0093FIT FOR\u0094? <br \/>Which brings us back to our original question \u0096 can we talk about being fit, without knowing what exactly we\u0092re \u0091fit for\u0092?  The way we see it, your optimum fitness level depends completely on what you want to be able to do in your  daily life, how you want to be feeling, how much energy you\u0092d  like to have and how exercise fits in with the rest of your life. So your first step in moving closer to optimum fitness needs to be to make that all-important decision \u0093What do I want to be fit for?\u0094<\/p>\n<hr size=\"-1\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n About the author:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Optimum Life&#8217;s Tanja Gardner is a Stress Management Coach and Personal Trainer whose articles on holistic health, relaxation and spirituality have appeared in various media since 1999. 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