{"id":189,"date":"2012-11-02T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2012-11-02T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T03:21:11","slug":"fitness-components-what-it-really-means-to-be-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/02\/fitness-components-what-it-really-means-to-be-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Components: What It Really Means to Be Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When gym buffs talk about fitness, I used to see it as a celebration of strength and speed. Upon closer look, fitness is actually a whole lot more than that.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmac.co.uk\/conditon.htm\">this article<\/a>, the components of fitness are:-<\/p>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strength<\/li>\n<li>Power<\/li>\n<li>Agility<\/li>\n<li>Balance<\/li>\n<li>Flexibility<\/li>\n<li>Local muscle endurance<\/li>\n<li>Cardiovascular endurance<\/li>\n<li>Strength endurance<\/li>\n<li>Coordination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Phew! That&#8217;s a pretty long list of stuff to have just to be fit don&#8217;t you think?<\/h3>\n<p>I know I have some level of cardiovascular endurance, but my flexibility is so poorly I can&#8217;t even touch my toes or sit up 90 degrees with my legs outstretched. It&#8217;s so bad that every single time I attempt to do yoga at a class, I end up seeing stars, sweat unhealthily during mid-pose, and even puked up my lunch once.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean I should just remain as stiff as a log though? Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>It just means I have do yoga at my own level and pace. If I can&#8217;t do the full poses, I just do what I can. The idea is to improve my own flexibility, not to do what Miss Twisty is doing on the other side of the room.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stretches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stretches.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stretches\" width=\"448\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also for flexibility, I do stretching exercises at home that I learned both from the gym and my physiotherapist in New York. <\/p>\n<p>But you don&#8217;t really need go to New York to learn them! All you need to do is Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.my\/#hl=en&#038;sugexp=les%3B&#038;gs_nf=3&#038;tok=TkSS3j4JitWJEieKhoFYNQ&#038;cp=12&#038;gs_id=ar&#038;xhr=t&#038;q=stretching+exercises&#038;pf=p&#038;output=search&#038;sclient=psy-ab&#038;oq=stretching+e&#038;gs_l=&#038;pbx=1&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&#038;fp=c5e22e99efb5801d&#038;bpcl=37189454&#038;biw=1249&#038;bih=892\">stretching exercises<\/a>&#8230; REALLY!<\/p>\n<p>My point is, we&#8217;re all going to be good at some components and bad at others, unless you&#8217;re just super unfit. Then you&#8217;ll need to just start from wherever you are at&#8230;. slowly. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sunsetborneo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sunsetborneo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sunsetborneo\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while I LOVE MY GYM and go several times a week, I don&#8217;t really have to go there to achieve fitness in some of the components like balance and flexibility. I simply need to know what to do safely, and do them at home or when I am out staring at the beautiful Bornean sunset.<\/p>\n<p>By paying attention to the components of fitness, I know now to improve in all areas to achieve true fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When gym buffs talk about fitness, I used to see it as a celebration of strength and speed. Upon closer look, fitness is actually a whole lot more than that. According to this article, the components of fitness are:- Strength Power Agility Balance Flexibility Local muscle endurance Cardiovascular endurance Strength endurance Coordination Phew! That&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[45,56],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","tag-components-of-fitness","tag-sunsets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}