Your Health And Fitness Balance?

How balanced is your health and fitness approach?

How many different areas are you doing pretty good at?

All too often i see people who hit one area really well but are shockingly bad in others.

Other people might do a couple of things ok and a few more not so good.

Many will also not be up to scratch on any area.

Now, we have to be aware that the concept of 'balance' is different for many people depending on their particular goals and perspectives. But whatever your particular bias, you are going to need some level of strength, endurance, flexibility, speed, power, supportive nutrition, and restoration.

This is a basic list - each category could be further subdivided into specific aspects of each.

Take each of the above areas and honestly evaluate each one for yourself. Imagine each of these qualities is the spoke on a wheel. Any gaping holes or weaknesses in your wheel (your approach)?

Not many people have the requirements of an ultra specific training programme. Therefore most of us can benefit from being 'all rounders' to a certain extent.

So, the challenge for you is to address some of those areas you are not currently doing so well at. It's easy to do the things that we have learned to be good at, or have a natural ability for, even when we work them hard.

It's challenging, both physically and mentally to work at something new or different. And if you are truly addressing something that was out of balance, then addressing this should only be a positive, compared to just doing something different for the sake of it.

Ever heard that saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail in the wall that needs banging in?

Sometimes you really don't need to do just more of the same thing, harder!

Look at the two areas above that really form the foundation of the gains that you make, especially concerning health, - nutrition and restoration. Are you really giving your body enough of a varied stimulus, and then enough down time and fuel to positively adapt to that stimulus?

Be an Everyday Athlete!

Steve Cork
www.sussexbootcamps.co.uk
www.everydayathletes.co.uk