Fitness Follows Exercise and Healthy Eating

The definition of fitness can vary depending on to whom it applies.   A professional athlete has to be fit to a higher standard than the layman. The weekend warrior can be fit to a higher standard than a person who only walks for exercise.  The walker is more fit than the person who gets very little exercise but eats healthy.

One result of fitness is health. The healthy person rarely gets sick because they have a healthy immune system. That is acquired by having an alkaline based blood supply. Alkaline based blood supply is created from eating food that grows out of the ground to a greater extent than sugars, flours, processed, and other dead foods.

The purpose of exercise to gain fitness is to burn muscle.  When muscle is burned some cells die and are replaced by stronger cells.  The person who starts doing ten push ups might soon be able to do 100. The body knows how to make itself stronger if it is properly exercised.

The level of fitness is fluid. You can keep getting more fit.  The pace of fitness depends on how much muscle you are burning every day. If you exercise daily, you get fit faster. Week end warriors get fit over time. I experienced getting stronger surfing where everyone starts off in deficit. Paddling in the ocean requires muscles you really can’t train in advance.

The combination of healthy eating and your level of exercise will take you to an appropriate level of fitness that you can subjectively measure.  Those who get carried away and want to test what the human body can endure get involved in competitions that include triathalons, marathons, ocean swims and so forth.

We might not yet have discovered the upper limit of fitness, but some people are always pushing it.

What’s your level?

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