Health and Fitness: Achieving a Balanced Lifestyle

Learn how to achieve balance through exercise & nutrition with tips from certified personal trainer Morgan Shapiro & Joe Wicks.

Health and Fitness: Achieving a Balanced Lifestyle

Fitness and health are often used interchangeably, but they are two distinct concepts. Fitness involves activities that stimulate various body systems and maintain a certain condition within the body. Health, on the other hand, involves all body systems and is only achieved through a lifestyle that supports health. Many definitions of fitness also mention health, since being fit generally promotes a healthy lifestyle.

However, fitness is about meeting the needs of the environment and is personal to each individual.For example, an elite athlete would have a high level of fitness, while a person who has recently given birth would have different expectations of their body and fitness. When you set extreme goals, you're more likely to feel defeated if you're wrong. When expectations aren't as intense, you're more likely to be consistent and enjoy your journey. You don't pressure yourself to be perfect.If you eat something “bad” or skip a workout, you wake up the next day and get back on track because now it's just part of your lifestyle.

This approach is much more attainable and leads to greater coherence in the long term. This is important when it comes to maintaining consistency with your workouts. If you continually do exercises that you don't enjoy and make you feel physically and emotionally exhausted, it will only last a while.It's best to find exercises that make you feel good and that you can maintain yourself in the long term, even if it's not the most intense. Constant low-intensity exercise always triumphs over inconsistent high-intensity exercise.

Morgan Shapiro is a certified personal trainer and founder of Morganic Lifestyle, a unique brand dedicated to showing others how to follow their personal path to wellness through a dynamic “mind, body and spirit” approach. Morgan has also emerged as a public health advocate and television personality for the popular WPLG show Local 10, SoFlo Health, where she influences others to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle.Morgan is passionate about helping people lead healthier lives through fitness, nutrition and mental health. Exercising regularly, every day if possible, is the most important thing you can do for your health. In the short term, exercise helps control appetite, improve mood, and improve sleep.

In the long term, it reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, depression and many types of cancer.These challenges are often completed in a short period of time and are accompanied by strict guidelines for success and failure, which are not good for your physical or emotional health. While keeping specific health and fitness goals in mind is great, people often go to extreme lengths to achieve these goals.Living a healthy lifestyle can inspire creativity and teach you discipline, adaptability and balance. Your friends, family and children are affected by the healthy choices you make and will often be inspired to make a change in their own lives.When you begin to see health and fitness as a lifestyle rather than a part-time hobby or 30-day challenge, you develop behaviors that will improve many areas of your life. This results in better relationships, lower risk of illness, and an overall healthier and happier world.

Explain that true fitness is about feeling healthy and fit enough to do the activities you want to do and live the lifestyle you want to live. The World Health Organization has defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not simply the absence of illness or illness.CMS Fitness courses offer a variety of health and fitness qualifications, from a Level 3 certificate in personal training to a Level 3 diploma leading to working as a fitness instructor. The best exercise program will incorporate both aerobic and strength training, as that is the best way to strengthen your entire body, improve your endurance and ensure your long-term health. Joe Wicks is a personal trainer with a subscription-based online fitness and nutrition program to help you be stronger, leaner and healthier.

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