They say that if you took twenty different
types of sports you will get twenty different types of fitness definitions from
the participants. It does not make any difference whether you are involved with
anything from Yoga to surfing it will have its own specific type of fitness
that it needs.
The dictionary describes fitness as the
ability of something or someone to adapt to the environment. When we are intent
on getting fit or improving our fitness it is all relative to how fit we
currently are and for what specific sport or activity we would want to get fit.
The training that you do will be in order to increase your fitness and ability
to adapt.
But physiologically speaking there is only
one definition that is needed to describe fitness and sports science who
studies this have come up with a very specific way to establish this fitness.
They do it by loading the body as in running or cycling or even rowing and they
then measure the amount of air that is needed to be processed.
This is called VO2 Max and is basically the
workload divided by the amount of air that is required in order to process that
workload. Whatever the reading is it should be understood that the reading is
specific to the time and place that it was done. This means that you are only
as fit as your last workout.
Because your fitness is your physical
ability to adapt to the environmental stress that you are under, the more
stress that you are given the more your body will adapt. This means that
someone who jogs a mile a day and does the same thing every day at the same
pace they will not be getting fitter.
They will improve their fitness to a pointy
where the body will be able to do the required mile job within the given time
allocated and if the person does not run faster the next day or run farther
then the fitness that they have achieved will not be increasing. It will
increase to the point that the person will be able to do the mile jog without
tiring.
But this does not mean that the time and
energy that it takes to jog a mile is a waste of time. On the contrary it is
very beneficial even if the fitness is not increased because it will have all
the physiological benefits of getting to that level of fitness. This means that
any exercise is good exercise because it will be keeping you healthy.
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