What Kind Of Results Do You Expect From a Fitness Exercise Program

What Kind Of Results Do You Expect From a Fitness Exercise Program.

When we start any kind of a physical fitness exercising conditioning program, the question of what kind of results to be expected should be address first.

This question can be addressed by considering adults and kids separately.

As parents, we want our children to grow and develop physically in a normal way, so that they are not handicapped by physical limitations.

We want them to have the ability to meet all demands made upon them with adequate reserves to enjoy life.

Many people express the thought that the physical condition is of little importance and that other things are of more importance.

However, if one has a strong healthy body, he can be happy regardless of other circumstances, but if he suffers physical inadequacy and poor health, he cannot be happy under any circumstances.

During the growing years, the child's body is especially adaptable to physical influences, good or bad.

Planned progressive use of the body in training during this period will assure him of a body that is structurally good. It will strongly influence the development of the organs and tissues within his body, for no organ or tissue can reach full development and capacity for effort unless progressive demands upon its function are made.

Regardless of body type, his physical fitness level will become much greater than it could be without the progressive training. Most children with the common faults in body mechanics can eliminate them with the properly selected resistance exercises.

The child's body is an extremely adaptable mechanism. It will reflect exactly what we demand of it and require of it to do. The muscular system is so constructed that its use not only strengthens the muscles themselves, but places a corresponding demand upon the function of all the organic processes in the body.

The three great requirements for growth and development are nutrition, rest, and progressive exercise. We say progressive exercise because without increasing the demand on body function we get little improvement in either structure or function.

Many an adult is expecting his body to perform its duties over a life span of seventy or more years with the organic development and strength of an adolescent. This is not reasonable and definitely unnecessary.

The application of progressive resistance training from childhood to adulthood will bring about a fully developed physical structure and strong physical reserves in organic and functional abilities that no other form of training has been able to do.

Closely allied to the physical development of the child is his emotional development. The emotions are so strong a force for good or evil that their development and control should be a major consideration in our children.

Everyone is under a constant emotional strain, whether he is conscious of it or not.

This, of course, is caused by the ever present conflict between our modern civilization and our emotional desires.

In many ways this conflict is more pronounced with children than with adults because they are more motivated by emotions than by reasoning. Their lives are on a purely physical and emotional basis for the first few years and only gradually become more governed by reason.

As his emotional demands are met by the realities of environment, his emotions must become adjusted to them or he becomes a "problem" child. Abnormal development of emotional reactions is surely caused in part at least by the individual having insufficient strength to meet the demands of his environment successfully.

Any child whose emotional development is poor is a potential victim of nervous and mental disease as an adult.

All physical changes have a definite reaction in the emotions and even mild emotional reactions have a definite physical expression. This is easily observed in the marked difference emotionally in a child when he is ill and when he is in good health.

It is difficult to bring about a perfectly normal emotional stability in one whose childhood has been handicapped by chronic illness.

In the same manner, emotional development is much less a problem in a child of good development and vigorous health.