Defining Health & Fitness with some interesting points.

What is health?

Health is the absence of illness and dysfunction of the body systems. Health is a balance between your physical, mental and social well beings.

What is Fitness?

Fitness is a combination of aerobic, strength, flexibility, and cardio-vascular endurance that allows one to perform physical activity free from injury, well above sedentary levels.

Fitness Considerations to consider?

The welfare of the client is central to all considerations in the trainer-client relationship. As the trainer we need to encourage all-rounded achievement in physical fitness of the client.

We need to ensure we are providing a balanced, cross training program to arrive at all-rounded health and fitness. We want to provide the client with a program that will make them happy, give them energy, emotionally more stabile, and bring them to an optimal BMI and all the other benefits of good health and fitness.

Health and Fitness benefits:

• Flexibility - The movement of a limb around a joint.
• Strength - The force produced from a maximal muscular contraction.
• Endurance - The ability of the body to sustain physical work.
• Nutrition - The body's blood chemistry and body composition.
• Mental Health - A proper balance of personality and the ability to handle stress.

Other benefits include:

Reduce stress, increased confidence, increased co-ordination, posture improves etc.

This has to be some of the main considerations we have to develop in our clients.