subject: Many New Years Resolutions Involve Health; Why Is Physical Fitness So Important? [print this page] As 2010 gets underway, you decide on a New Year's Resolution to get more out of the upcoming year than you got out of the last one. Did you meet your goals from last year, or have they changed?
What do you want? Is your goal about making more money? Is it about spending more time with your family?
Whether your New Year's Resolution is about your bottom dollar or your need for love, your energy level has everything to do with meeting those important goals. That is the short and simple answer to: "Why Is Physical Fitness So Important?"
There is another reason that health is a major focus of many New Year's Resolutions. If you don't know someone dealing with the consequences of heart disease, you must be living under a rock! Heart disease kills more people than EVERY other cause of death COMBINED!
Your intuition is screaming at you to address your diet and lifestyle choices, because all around you is the evidence of what happens when you make those choices irresponsibly. Want more energy? Make better choices!
Just making a New Year's Resolution won't guarantee your success. It takes more than will power to get physically fit! As a matter of fact, if your health is already compromised, your attempt to "get in shape" might just KILL you!
Heart disease is a silent killer. Often the first sign of the disease is a heart attack! That is one wake up call you just might not wake up from!
Don't wait for your health to be devastated to begin making diet and lifestyle changes, but don't go into it blind either! Your doctor can tell you if exercise is dangerous for you. If you haven't had a physical recently, then schedule one. Once you've established your safe activity level, you are on your way.
If you are a couch potato, start off very slowly! Slow and steady wins the race! You are definitely racing the clock, because inactivity WILL kill you! However, you can't hurry up and get fit. It just doesn't work like that.
