The following excerpt from Josh Kirk-Owner's blog. INLINE Private Training
"Due to our absolute individuality in bodily structure, emotional balance, and motor coordination, each of us must define our own unique and sustainable relationship with exercise. Before you begin or advance a fitness program, think about these things:
Body Structure: We all have singular shaped bodies that react differently to the same exercises. What works for one person may not work for another.
Emotional Balance: Our emotions allow words, images, and people to motivate or de-motivate us. They create desire for change and our internal discipline or lack thereof. We all have a different emotional balance.
Motor Coordination: Some people are born jugglers and tight rope walkers, others are not. Some also have excellent form, balance, and muscular tension that allows them to get better results and guard themselves from injury.
Sustainability: It is difficult to work out or maintain motivation when you are injured. Training through deep joint and connective tissue pain creates negative results. Pounding your body needlessly shortens your exercise life-span. Because of our unique body structure some people are more prone to injury and have shorter exercise life-spans.
Most importantly, it is the health of your joints and surrounding tissues that brings to balance all the disparate notions of fitness and working out. As soon as it is compromised your body machine begins to weaken, ache, and become susceptible to more damage. The entire point of “lifetime fitness” is to strengthen your machine and keep it running optimally for all the days of your life. Burning out your engine early with unbalanced approaches will defeat this purpose.
Taking the time to educate yourself and form a personal relationship with exercise will keep you healthy, balanced. Otherwise, your attempts at fitness will only last as long as the fad does, until you get injured, lose the big game, or get your butt kicked by someone better than you. Then you will be searching for a new relationship to exercise, only to find yourself sucked into the next fad instead."
Elijah Sacra
National Academy of Sports Medicine
Certified Personal Trainer
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