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What are the 7 Dimensions of Wellness

What is wellness?  It’s a concept that changes how we think about and approach health. Many people and treatment programs view health and well-being as the management of disease. While this approach can be useful in removing harmful behaviors and treating illness, it doesn’t provide a framework for wellness once the initial issues have been resolved. Embracing wellness means shifting your mindset to prevention and employing proactive strategies to thrive, rather than just survive. Wellness is a conscious and self-directed process with the goal of achieving your full potential. It can be broken down into seven dimensions, all of which overlap and interact in everyday life.  What are the seven dimensions of wellness? Familiarizing yourself with each dimension and working to bring them all together will empower you to live your life to the fullest. 7 Dimensions of Wellness  The 7 Dimensions of Wellness are: Social Wellness  Emotional Wellness  Spiritu...

Exercise and Health: Which Exercise Is Best for You — Diet Doctor

By medical review You can’t outrun a bad diet. We’ve heard it time and time again. And for the most part, it’s true. But hold on. That doesn’t mean exercise has no role in health and weight loss. On the contrary, exercise can have a profound impact on overall health and body composition, especially when combined with healthy eating. The key is understanding how to incorporate different forms of exercise into a healthy lifestyle.  In this guide, we hope to answer all of your questions about exercise and its impact on your health. First, define your goals Would you be interested in losing weight while also increasing insulin sensitivity, lowering blood pressure, improving HDL, reducing abdominal fat, building lean body mass, relieving symptoms of depression and anxiety, and enhancing feelings of wellbeing?If all of that was in a pill, who wouldn’t want to take it? But it’s not in a pill; rather, it’s what you can accomplish through exercise. As you read the following sections, consid...

Health and fitness tips

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Tips to successfully improve your overall fitness   Physical fitness is an activity that many people want to incorporate into their lives. The main goal of physical fitness is to build a healthier body and life for yourself. You can create a better exercise routine by following the tips listed below.Remember that not everything you read about exercise is true. Always check the credentials of the author you are viewing or the coach you are working with, before accepting their word as gospel. Some may be very new to the field or simply express their own theories that have not been proven. Fitness program Start an exercise program that costs nothing. Even if you can’t afford to join a gym or buy expensive home training equipment, you can still get a great workout. Go to your local school on the weekends and play basketball or run on the track. Even brisk walking around your neighborhood can give you decent cardio without spending a dime. Health care running f...

How to build a successful and rewarding career in fitness. A step-by-step guide for personal trainers & coaches.

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Every year, thousands of people consider starting a career in fitness and health. But most have no idea how to make their dream a reality. This article—written for both new and experienced fitness professionals—outlines a new curriculum for building a successful career. Becoming passionate about health and fitness put the rest of my life into perspective. I caught the fitness bug early. I started working out and reading articles about nutrition and fitness when I was in high school. By the time I was 21, I’d put on 30 pounds of muscle, felt awesome, and vanquished my skinny guy genetics.Like many people who start living the “healthy lifestyle”, I quickly became the go-to fitness and nutrition expert for my friends and family, a position and responsibility I enjoyed and cherished. My new-found love for exercising and eating healthy—coupled with the results I saw in the mirror and my ability to help others get in shape—made me feel like a brand new person.Well, almost.Because even though...

The 10 Components of Fitness

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Spread the love Fitness is a concept that is vastly misunderstood and each individual has his / her own way of defending it.What most people do not know is that there are 10 components / elements / facets that make up the state of Fitness .  All these 10 components need to be improved in an individual for him / her to be deemed as physically it.Now, it does not matter if you are young or old, man or woman; or whether you belong to a certain category of people (bodybuilder, athlete, corporate executive, couch potato, housewife etc).  Your fitness program must aim to improve all 10 aspects of fitness.All human beings are built the same way physiologically.  Therefore, we all need each of the components of fitness to enhance the quality of our physical fitness and the by enhance life.So …. What exactly are the 10 components of fitness? The 10 Components of Fitness : 1) Cardiovascular Endurance : The ability of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems to transport oxygenate...