Fitness is the condition of being physically strong and healthy, encompassing the ability to perform daily tasks with vigor and energy, and to enjoy leisure activities without undue fatigue
The New Year is a time for celebration, reflection, and setting resolutions. Many individuals grapple with regrets from the past year while hoping for renewal. However, distractions can hinder progress, with only a small percentage maintaining their resolutions. Embracing optimism and focusing on consistent action is essential for achieving goals.
Calisthenics is an effective fitness method that bridges sedentary lifestyles and improved fitness levels. It accommodates various abilities, requires minimal equipment, and can be performed anywhere. Regular practice enhances strength, endurance, and flexibility, making it particularly beneficial for older adults to combat the effects of aging.
The author reflects on their weekly swimming sessions, highlighting the numerous health benefits of aquatic exercise. Despite initial reluctance, swimming becomes a fulfilling spiritual and physical activity that enhances overall well-being and accessibility for all individuals.
Life's essentials include sleep for recovery, nutrition for body support, sex for reproduction, and fear for survival. Beyond these basics, spiritual awareness can elevate existence, fostering deeper connections and introspection among all beings.
World Spine Day highlights how sedentary office work contributes to back pain, emphasizing the importance of regular movement and proper posture for spinal health.
Gravity influences body strength and posture, with exercise and inversion boots offering potential benefits against its adverse effects.
An abbreviated workout can be a temporary replacement for a full workout when time is short. Time constraints, commonplace in modern society, can and do interrupt workout consistency. Through recurring episodes of interruption, waning exercise consistency may begin, and become justifiable, due to intermittent time shortages. Attained physical gains can be maintained and can increase by committing to consistent(ly) exercising. Lack of time can be the impetus for devising concise exercise routines that can be utilized when needed
Regularly engaging the body's multi-directional capacity through exercises involving multiple planes of motion and joints enhances functional physical capacity. Modern society's sedentary lifestyle leads to physical degradation. Incorporating compound exercises that engage the entire body and challenge biomechanical stability is crucial for maintaining functional longevity.
To be dedicated to fitness is a good quality to possess. Consistency with one’s choices of exercise is important. One should not second guess or self-deprecate themselves when they have accomplished, at least, some level of activity.
The axiom ‘Movement is Life’ is often repeated regarding health and well-being. Exercise is an integral to slowing the natural process of aging and age related maladies. Yet, many opt for an easier way . . . . that of avoiding exercise. The book written by NASA Scientist Joan Vernikos, Sitting Kills, Moving Heals, extolls the benefits of consistent basic movement, in addition to exercise, for the (human) body. One should say to themselves daily ‘Move More, Live Better’.
Ab-Sutra Wellness and Fitness 