Let’s start with this. When you exercise, over time it creates a whole bunch of biological reactions that allow your body to become strong, fast, mobile, coordinated, and efficient. Different exercise types and factors create different adaptations and individuals react differently depending on their genetics, history, current fitness, and interests.
Even in one individual, endurance training will produce different changes than resistance training. That's why I think it is important to dip your toes into as many fitness realms as possible.
By keeping your fitness program varied, you can gain these (and more) benefits:
- Stronger ligaments and tendons
- Increased VO2 max (your ability to use oxygen)
- Increased lactate threshold (how hard you can exercise)
- Increased blood delivery systems (capillaries) in muscles
- Increased cardiac muscle (a stronger heart)
- Increased force production (how much you can lift or how high you can jump)
- Improved balance and coordination
- Increased speed
- Improved ability to continue exercising for longer periods
Each of these wonderful fitness changes is helpful (and necessary) in different scenarios of our lives. So when your body is becoming efficient or strong, powerful or fast, your performance—not only in sport but in life—is enhanced.
But, the long-term benefits of these improved abilities are only seen and become meaningful if we're able to be consistent in our training.
Consistency is both the key and the most overlooked component of fitness. Put plainly, you don't get and stay fit because of the 21-day program you did three months ago. It’s what you've done consistently in the three months since that defines where you are today.
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I wrote an article for the Weighless Life blog a while ago called Getting Unstuck. In it, I said this:
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