How to improve your fitness?

Maintaining a good level of physical fitness is important. However, it can be difficult to determine what fitness entails.

Experts define physical fitness as “one's ability to execute daily activities with optimal performance, endurance, and strength with the management of disease, fatigue, and stress and reduced sedentary behavior.”

Fast facts on fitness:

• Maintaining good physical fitness can help prevent some conditions.
• With exercise, body composition can change without changing weight.
• Athletes' hearts show different changes depending on their chosen sport.
• Muscle strength increases due to fiber hypertrophy and neural changes.
• Stretching to increase flexibility can ease a number of medical complaints.

Benefits of regular physical activity

Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing several diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Physical activity and exercise can have immediate and long-term health benefits.If you are regularly physically active, you may:

• reduce your risk of a heart attack
• manage your weight better
• have a lower blood cholesterol level
• lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers
• have lower blood pressure
• have stronger bones, muscles and joints and lower risk of developing osteoporosis
• lower your risk of falls

Improve Your Fitness

• Choose a reason for becoming more active – Ask yourself why are you being active.
• Choose an activity that you enjoy – Choose activities you enjoy. Variety is key, if you get bored with one activity, try a different one.
• Set goals and chart your progress – Set a realistic goal for yourself to achieve. Keep a diary, a chart or use an online app to track your progress.
• Give yourself rewards – When you achieve goals or steps to a goal, give yourself a treat – preferably a healthy one.
• Starting your fitness habit – Whatever your age or ability, any activity is better than none.

That's why THE MAX Challenge is here to help every single step of the way. THE MAX's workouts are programmed for you, and instructors are present to make sure you're executing the exercises correctly and motivating you until the final minute of class! Their lifechanging process, successfully used by people of all different experience and fitness levels, combines exciting fitness classes, nutritional counseling and motivation into one easy to follow program.