Pillars of fitness
May 28th, 2008 at 03:31pm Mike DeDoncker
There are four basic areas — pillars of the building, if you will — of fitness. They are:
Cardiovascular endurance — the ability of your respiratory and circulatory systems to efficiently use oxygen to sustain activities such as running, biking, walking and swimming that involve large muscle groups.
Strength training — the ability of your muscles, tendons, ligaments and other fascia to adapt to stresses of lifting weights or body-weight exercises.
Flexibilty — stretching of the muscles and other fascia to keep them limber for the stresses of exercise.
Nutrition — eating a balanced diet that optimally sustains health and activity levels and doesn’t ingest too many or too few calories.
You can make progress by taking care of two or three pillars, but it doesn’t really all fall together until you take care of all four.
The first three are usually the easy ones, it’s the nutrition part — watching calorie intake, being mindful of portion control, eating the right number of servings of each kind of food and knowing what a “serving” actually is that gets tough.
Mind your nutrition and you may become a pillar of fitness.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Oneills Lies | May 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I hope you can provide a compliment to your editors. I like these blogs, they each have a distinct personality. Yours is by the guy who is built like Mr. T. Barry Wood is the cerebral guy with his own fan club. Movie Man is all movies all the time. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is watching a movie right now. Sweeny and Cunningham, they are writing about their Obama man crushes. Only one that sticks out is the Geo blog, which puts me to sleep.
2. Lawrence Gregory Clarkson | May 30th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I am not very flexible. What can I do? Should I stretch every day? For how long?
You are like Iron Mike.
3. Lawrence Gregory Clarkson | June 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Mike, I was just reading the Geo blog. It has a picture of that bad a– dude Kimbo Slice. I was thinking, considering the way you are built, you might be able to take him. Any thoughts? I think you would beat him *bad.*
4. Javan | June 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I am 100 percent sure Iron Mike DeDoncker could take Kimbo Slice. He would outquick him.
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