Health and fitness are like the two sides of a coin. Fitness is a key to health and health is a key to success and life. We have often heard people saying, “Health is wealth.” This phrase is a kind of life-saving drug and people also state that “Fitness is a Key to Health.”In today’s world, people are dealing with the problems of hypertension, stress, blood-pressure problems, anxiety, and many more diseases which can affect our life massively.
Many studies showed that fitness is the key ingredient of healthy living and can help someone in tackling the above serious problems. Although health and fitness depend upon a large number of factors like environment, society, geographical region, climate, and most importantly food intake i.e. the diet we are taking.
Now, we will discuss the factors which are impacting health and fitness of an individual:
- Balanced Diet or Nutritious Diet – Diet plays a most important role in our health. Our diet should be balanced as per the needs of our bodies. It should contain all the various components of food like protein, fat, carbohydrates, micronutrients, macronutrients, vitamins, calcium, and fibres.
A balanced diet helps our body to perform all the necessary functions properly and keeps our mind healthy. A balanced diet must contain all the components required in our daily life.
- Exercise – When it comes to fitness, we always have a word in our mind that is ‘exercise.’ Exercise is the key to fitness one should indulge in this activity at least for half an hour in a day. It keeps our heart and lungs healthy and increases our capacity to take oxygen and build our muscles and bones strong for healthy living. One should include some physical training in their routine like doing gym, playing sports like basketball, football, hockey, athletics are all part of the exercise and involve physical movements.
- Yoga and Meditation – They both are new trends in healthy living although their existence is for more than thousands year old. They have the ability to counter many problems related to health such as blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, and many more. They have natural healing ability without having any side-effect. They also help in keeping our mind fresh.
There are some emotional and mental benefits of fitness like-
- Acute memory and thinking– Fit people always have a physiological advantage because of their healthy body.They can think wide and acute as compared to any other unhealthy person.
- Fulfill our self-esteem needs– Ass fit and healthy person feels powerful and confident, unlike an unhealthy person.
- Exercise also helps in better sleep – While a person doing some exercise, he or she burns some number of calories which would help in stimulating sleep.
- The energetic feeling will be seen in healthy and fit people. Their lifestyle is very confident, and they always have a scientific advantage over others due to their confidence level.
Remember most failed to improve our fitness because we always expect the results overnight. Always give yourself time and stick with proper diet and workout plan, never over-train yourself because overtraining won’t help you to achieve your fitness goals quickly but it can delay your progress because the body needs rest to recover.
You must start to eat with small meals but frequent meals. This is the best easy way to speed up your metabolism and it can help you to burn fat fast and wight loss.
A fit and healthy person stays happier and they have a strong immune system and fighting spirit to fight with diseases and easily cope up with the pressure situation of daily life. Fitness improves the strength of bones and reduces the chance of cardiovascular diseases.
About Author: Paramjit Singh is a well-known name as an Online Personal Fitness Coach and has over 15 years of experience in the fitness industry who has helped transformed hundreds of clients through scientific training and nutrition programs also a blogger.