Essential Tips for Staying Fit

The ability to stay fit is much easier than most people would believe. In fact, it could be one of the simplest activities you can perform each day. To stay at your highest level of fitness requires the ability to eat well, workout each day, and rest accordingly.

Eating Properly

Most people eat a horrible diet filled with junk food, high carbohydrates, and too much fat. Maintaining a healthier lifestyle usually requires the need to eat properly, by consuming only the highest quality foods.

It is important to understand that all of the energy that your body creates is derived out of the food that it consumes, and the air that is breathed.

Many individuals believe that the easiest solution for losing weight is simply skipping meals. However, with missed meals comes a lower amount of body fluids, and reduced energy.


The lower the amount of energy, the quieter the metabolism will become. When the metabolism is minimized the body begins to slow down, and tends to hold onto additional body fat, and will burn muscle mass instead, to produce the energy it requires. As a result, the body becomes weakened, but still retains its fat.

Alternatively, consuming the best foods each day can reverse this phenomenon, an increase the body’s metabolism.

Consuming higher levels of protein, complex carbohydrates and minimal fat is the ideal way to stay fit.

Routine Workouts

Performing routine workouts every day does not require extensive exercise. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, participating in local sports, or taking a walk after dinner is all the physical activity that is required to stay properly fit.

The key ingredient to maintaining fitness is to understand that the body has a natural resistance to exercise. However, by simply incorporating an additional 15 minutes of exercise each day, the body will begin to become accustomed to the change.

As the body becomes more fit, its immune system becomes stronger, and its resistance against physical activity begins to diminish.

The easiest way to incorporate an effective program to stay fit is to mix things up. By walking on certain days, jogging on other days, and participating in local sports at different times throughout the week, will help keep your body in check, as it strives to maintain the energy level you require.

Getting Enough Rest

As we get older, we tend to sleep less. When we were children, and constantly growing, we often required 10 full hours of sleep every night. However, most adults today get less than six hours of sleep on average.

This can cause significant havoc on the internal organs and the aging process. A lack of sleep often produces a slower metabolism, and a groggy sensation throughout the day.

As a result, we tend to find ways to produce less energy, and avoid any type of physical activity. By getting enough sleep every night, it is easy to enhance the body’s metabolism, increase its energy levels, and stay fit.

Recognize that what is consumed every day contributes about 50% of the energy required to stay fit. Working out contributes approximately 20%, and getting enough rest contributes the last 30%.

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Warren Tattersall has been a nutritional consultant for over 20 years and has a personal interest in weight lifting toward reaching competition level.

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