What do you think fitness is?

Question

Are you fit? Do you think fitness is important? Why? What regular exercise do you do (3 times per week)?

This is for a survey, need 3 decent answerers.

Answer 1

I loathe my fitness. To me it means it takes a very long time and a huge amount of effort to get exhausted. I have too much energy all the time, I exercise all the time but never feel that satisfied feeling like you have done exercise for more than a minute. It makes me so disillusioned like I don't want to start doing any exercise at all because I know that once I start I'll have to commit myself to doing it along time before I get any relief from it or leave off feeling that unsatisfied feeling like you haven't finished. My brain is tired of it but my body is used to it. You just lose the sense of achievement when you are fit because your whole guage of distance alters. I think fitness just makes exercise take up more and more of your life. It means I can never sit still in peace because of the giant difference between sitting still and moving fast that I can't help but notice all the time. I love to think, to write to read to philosophise but can never do it in peace because I always feel this pull and tug to get up and exercise. I like what it forces me to achieve but achievement is something that you have to stand still to enjoy and I can't stand still I haven't the feeling you've run this far in my mind because I can't feel it in my body in the same way and I've run further some other day.

Answer 2

Nice little definition here- "fitness is the body's ability to meet the demands of the environment". & yes I think fitness is important, especially since Britain is getting fatter! I'm a bit of a fitness freak & have been known to run 40miles per week (3times a week is just laughable to me!!) Currently I go running 3xweek, do sprint work on track 1xweek, gym2xweek, swim1x & cycle once if I have time....I realise that this probably doesn't represent most of the population who are all lazy!

Answer 3

Fitness is the ability to endure in an activity for a relatively long time. Anaerobic training builds new capillaries throughout the body to carry more oxygenated blood to various body parts to keep the activity going. Your body becomes more efficient.
Running (not jogging, but interval training or fartlek), push-ups, pull-ups, squats and sit-ups in sets, Split the exercises and alternate them. That way you train more than three days a week, and you can devote more to each exercise. Anaerobic activity is superior to aerobic training for true fitness.

Answer 4

i am fit, yes i think fitness is important, i go to the gym 4 times a week

Answer 5

fitness is to me I think is how fast you recover from exercising or a work out and able to do it again.running for a time now for about 25 ,30 yrs.I agreed with pshdsa