What Is Physical Activity & Fitness?
You don't need to get fancy, expensive equipment to improve your fitness. Walking is an example way to get physical activity that is available to almost everyone. Many house and garden chores can help build strength as well. Functional fitness refers to how well you’re able to do all the physical tasks you need to do each day. A large factor in functional fitness is flexibility - and staying active can help. Gymnasiums which would seem familiar today began to become increasingly common in the 19th century. This is on purpose because the most important aspect of a workout is keeping it up. “You must enjoy a given activity if you expect to continue to be motivated to do it on a regular basis,” he says. Compared with people who didn’t strength train — and those benefits were independent of whether or not they regularly did aerobic exercise. What Does Being Physically Fit Mean? Download the Fitness First App Discover fitness programs and on demand Group Exercise classes to help