Fitness Cure

I love, love, love this book. I was reading through it this morning and found some awesome information I wanted to share with y’all!

I definitely feel that we need to start distinguishing more and more about the differences between health and fitness. From personal experience and observation, it appears that we have everything ALL backward and need to more fully understand what makes an individual truly healthy.

Personally, I know that when I was competing, I didn’t digest properly, I was irritable because I wasn’t eating enough carbohydrates for energy, and my mind was always occupied by thoughts of ‘perfection.’ I wasn’t healthy – I looked fit, but I wasn’t healthy.

Here an excerpt from Anthony Robbin’s book: Awaken the Giant Within.

“The failure of most individuals to grasp the difference between fitness and health is what causes them to experience the frustration of working out religiously and still having the same five to ten pounds stubbornly clinging to their midsection. Talk about learned helplessness! Worse than that is the light of those who make exercise the centerpiece of their lives and believe that their actions are making them healthier, yet each and every day they are pushing themselves one step further toward fatigue, disease and emotional upheaval.

What exactly do I mean by the difference between health and fitness? Fitness is the “physical ability to perform athletic activity.” Health, however, is defined as “the state where all the systems of the body- nervous, muscular, skeletal, circulatory, digestive, lymphatic, hormonal, etc., – are working in an optimal way….” – (*excerpt from Dr. Philip Maffetone’s “Everyone is an Athlete”) Most people think that fitness implies health, but the truth is that they don’t necessarily go hand in hand. It’s ideal to have both health and fitness, but by putting health first, you will always enjoy trememdous benefits in your life. If you achieve fitness at the expense of health, you may not livelong enough to enjoy your spectacular physique.” – Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within, pg. 440-441

Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!

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