Personal Fitness

Personal Fitness

Personal fitness has remained a continuous goal in my life for the benefits that accrue from it. The concept comprises of health benefits and body fitness. Medical studies have shown that physical exercise is good for health. Some of these benefits include reducing total body weight, trimming the waistline, easing stress, depression and anxiety, improving sleep and enhancing body flexibility. Physical activity may be contributing about 70% of physical fitness in real life. This is true, especially where the income-generating activity is not physically engaging like my job as an accountant. Deliberate physical activity has played a significant role in enhancing my general body fitness. Besides, physical activities have been a considerable income generation program through training other people at pay. The implication is meeting the intended outcome while incurring health benefits.

Cognizant of this fact, I have drawn a physical exercise program towards my fitness objective. Walking and jogging will be the dominant activity in the exercise since they pose less risk of injury and maintain my energy levels at an almost constant level throughout the week. On the other hand, walking seems a pretty easy task, but to acquire effective results, one must have the necessary skills and competence (Hoeger et al., 2018). In this regard, I will do my walking for five days a week fifteen minutes daily starting 4:30 AM. My walking will be characterized by walking tall, shoulders high, chest out, and eyes focused forward. The lower part of the back will relax as it takes a neutral position. Walking is a useful exercise because almost all muscles participate in walking in a more time duration than other vigorous and intensive exercise. I will walk for seven minutes as I warm up for a jog. I will jog for the following 15minutes. Jogging increases the rate of muscle movement and the burning of excess fat as the body requires more energy at the jogging time. The jog will be followed by an eight minutes slow walk to cool down.

Walking and jogging may lead to unnecessary injuries if not carefully conducted. Risk factors include improper dressing and technique, overtraining, and environmental factors such as polluted air (Hoeger et al., 2018). Safety procedures include warming up before starting an exercise to allow muscles to have slow, sustained stretches, cooling down after jogging, avoid jogging in hot weather, having regular massage to relax muscles and running on clear, smooth tracks. The importance of proper jogging and walking include enhanced lung and heart fitness, lower risk of Cardiac arrests and other heart problems, stronger bones, improved balance, endurance, improved muscle strength and lower body fat. Some conditions, like hypertension, joint pains and muscular in addition to diabetes, can be managed by physical exercises for fitness.

Monitoring the heart rate is critical in determining the fitness level to avoid over-exercising. Overdoing physical exercise may result in bodily injury and mental fatigue. A resting heart rate is about 40 beats per minute. A lower resting heart rate indicates better fitness (Hoeger et a, 2018). During the winter break, I intend to cut my body weight by 10Kg, to able to make a 3KM walk in ten minutes and jog through the same in less than 10 minutes. These physical exercises will help me improve my physical fitness, mental health and body flexibility. Jogging is superior to many other physical workouts because it takes less time. Besides,  it exercises even the internal organ muscles such as cardiac muscles in addition to other skeletal muscles.

Physical exercise is essential in day to day life. Some of the benefits associated with physical fitness include the low risk of lifestyle conditions such as obesity and heart problems. It is, therefore, essential to emphasize physical activities to improve individual health outcomes.

Reference

Hoeger, W. W., Hoeger, S. A., Hoeger, C. I., & Fawson, A. L. (2018). Lifetime physical fitness and wellness. Cengage Learning.