Fitness Tips

Very few individuals have all the knowledge required to successfully achieve our personal health and fitness goals. Even for individuals that do, there will always be room for additional knowledge to assist in maximizing your efforts to obtain an even higher level of overall personal fitness.

With today's hectic and busy lifestyles, it has become increasingly more difficult to regularly set aside time to actually focus on our health, fitness, and mental wellness. In fact, this can be easily witnessed by the elevated levels of obesity, increases in the percentages of debilitating and chronic diseases, and generally poor overall health that afflicts millions of individuals today.

There are several individual components that, when combined, can lead to poor health. Below we list several key components that are required to promote good overall health, fitness, and mental well-being as truly good health is more than just exercising or eating right.

In addition, there are several definitions that can be used to define what poor health is. For instance, an individual may regularly exercise and consume a fairly healthy diet but only sleep 2 to 3 hours a night. While the individual may appear healthy on the outside, their immune system may be weak due to their consistent lack of adequate sleep.

In another example, an individual may appear healthy but regularly consume foods that are highly processed and nutrient deficient. In this case, the individual will be starving their body of the nutrients required to support the various bodily functions that occur on a daily basis and over time.

To this end, we believe that good health, fitness, and mental well-being is a culmination of seven key components that when combined on a regular basis promote overall wellness and health. Below are a list of the seven key fitness components.

One of the goals of this section of our website is to provide you with fitness tips that are designed to meet the challenges of a hectic lifestyle. We will not only focus on all aspects associated with achieving and maintaining good health, but also provide only the latest proven research available.

The Seven Fundamental Key Fitness Components

1. Cardiovascular/Aerobic Conditioning

2. Strength Training and Muscular Development

3. Stretching - Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons

4. Core Stability

5. Nutrition and Supplementation

6. Mental Rest and Relaxation

7. Sleep

The following articles associated with the Fitness Tips section of our website are designed to thoroughly discuss all aspects of achieving true health and fitness. This, of course, will include information related to all of the primary areas of health and fitness. The articles have been written at varying levels of difficulty to ensure that everyone from the novice just starting out to the expert looking for new techniques and approaches will benefit.

The overall intent of this section of our website is to provide you with all of the information, approaches and techniques necessary for you to obtain your personal fitness goals and to live a long and healthy life. We will thoroughly discuss the lifestyle changes that are needed to facilitate these goals.

These lifestyle changes will include maintaining a fit body, appropriately nourishing our bodies, improving our mental capacity and well-being, and providing our bodies with the proper amount of rest, relaxation and sleep. In addition, we will provide motivational tips and techniques that you can utilize to enhance your probability of successfully attaining your personal health and fitness goals.

Knowledge is Power

As with most challenges in life, knowledge is paramount to meeting the challenge of health and fitness. The higher the level of knowledge an individual has regarding how the human body works, the more successful they will be in implementing a lifestyle that facilitates good health. If you simply think of your human body as a machine, like an automobile, you would realize that you would have no ability to fix the automobile without expert knowledge of how all the various parts work and interact with each other. The human body is no different. In fact, the human body is the single most complex machine ever created.

Our fitness tips are designed to give you insight into exactly how the human body functions and how it should most optimally be maintained. Some of the fitness tips included may seem rather elementary, even commonsensical, but it is always a good idea to review the basics to reinforce your core level of knowledge and to reconfirm your level of confidence. Thereafter, many of the articles under this section of our website will improve upon your current level of knowledge and provide you with information that will allow you to take your personal fitness to the next level.

The fitness tips included in this section of our website have been gathered from a variety of different medical and health resources. They are intended to represent the most current research available. The necessary research has been provided by a variety of leading traditional medical practitioners, alternative medical practitioners, fitness trainers, dietitians and nutritionists.

Our goal is to gather all of the prominent research and expert opinions from all viable resources and compile them within a single location. In addition, our intent is to present a variety of theories and approaches to allow you to determine the best technique for you. By doing so, we will have eliminated the need for you to independently spend weeks, or even months, researching the various topics, approaches, techniques, and systems necessary to achieving good health and fitness.

It is highly recommended that you periodically review the articles located within this section of our website from time to time, as we will be continually adding new articles in an effort to provide you with the most current health, fitness, and mental well-being research available. The health and fitness field is a rapidly changing and evolving field in which research is being presented on virtually a non-stop basis.

Health and fitness information that is regarded as the most current and up to date is often discarded and replaced by new medical findings and research that represent the most current methods, approaches and theories. While it may be virtually impossible to keep up with this ever-evolving field and the research that is being produced through several institutions, it is our intention to provide you with the latest information in as timely a manner as possible.

The Fitness Tips category of our website is designed to facilitate your personal fitness goals and should be used as a guide to enhance your overall lifestyle. Our hope is that you will find this information to be beneficial and that you will, where personal deficiencies exist, implement the necessary changes to enhance the quality of your life.