The meaning of fitness

           The notion of fitness has undergone different interpretations and alterations as to its definition.
If you a believer of the origin of species, well even if you are not, the idea of fitness was understood as an element of survuval and mating. In the animal world today and even millions years ago , animals who showed fitness were able to survive and even ward off pradators,and more importantly were able to win a mate for reproduction. Female had the power to select the male that is fit and would pass on the good gene to the offspring. Unforntunately or maybe fortunately, depends on where you find yourself in the category, the same reality applies today in the human species and even more so.
            But the idea of fitness wasn't limited only on the physical aspect, as having six packs and all , but it characterized also different aspects of life. A male who were able to bring food to a female was considered by her as being fit, or being able to protect her was an impressive quality in the fit male.
Now the physical quality was such that it was the first factor of attraction, notably the girafe with the longest neck was and is imposing therefore fit, the lizard who could perfom more push ups was the "man".
            Today the definition of fitness has taken a more biological approach while preserving some elements if not all of its primitive meaning. The physical characteristic of fitness still very much a factor of consideration in the mating( relationship) department. The females still have the power to chose the male they think fit. There has been a nuance of reciprocity that males also pick females without any abstraction of fitness a priori.
          The scientific aspect, more precisely the biological aspect of fitness, in human's view, has to do with the wellness of the body. Is fit someone who benefits a well functioning of the body due to some physical activities(exercise) or a proper nutritional value intake.
 In regard to the different elements of the definition of fitness, it has become a culture that has evolved . Through time and space it has evolutionarily lost or gained some elements.
At the end of the day it is only beneficial to human.
So stay fit.

The fitness mindset

             How can one become a fitness master? certainly it doesn't happen by accident. so what is the mindset behind the success in fitness?
             Before getting into understanding this concept, it is important be familiar with another concept.The discipline is paramount to almost every area in life success. Fitness is no exception.
Achieving a goal of fitness requires one to be disciplinary. Sometimes it is necessary to ask some fitness gurus what does it take to achieve one's fitness goal. The experience that i had in dealing and talking with such people lead me to arrive at a simple finding: they think fitness everyday. While this is such a brilliant idea in its simplicity, not many people come to do that. Why is that? simply because we all by nature tend to engage in passive thinking rather than a more creative one. Now i am going to expose the secret behind this mystery. Without going to far, i am going to take an example of myself. Other than litterally going to the gym, every physical activity that i am engaged in, may it be sweeping the floor, climbing flights of stairs, fixing anything at home, i always tune my mind to believe that it is an exercise and that it targets a specific part of my body, and when the mind is focus on that specific of the body even when i am exercising, the result speaks volume. It has always worked for me and most of my clients have found it undoubtedly effective
Also because we eat everyday, it is another way to maintain the fitness mindset . I just watch what i eat especially if i have choice. here , it is quite important to be mindful of the effect of anything consumed, what may contribute to the overall fitness achievement, whether it helps or forestalls the whole operation.  
It therefore must be clear that attaining a fitness goal requires as much physical exercise and careful selection of nutritional intake as the psychological awareness .

fitness and the african

       One of the few first things i noticed when i first came to America was the fact that it was public knowdledge that fitness was undeniably and irreversibly good for you. This was made factual by the way that you could see gyms almost in and around every commercial center in the case of East Coast where i landed and later on , in almost every block in California, you could see people of all age category running up and down in parks without any clear destination in mind or a frequent fitness product advertisement on  television. But what happened to make poeple so trendy about fitness?. was there anything wrong with people here ? the answer is yes if you really understand where i am coming from.
I was born and grew up in Africa. I or any other fellow African, the majority to say the least, we didn't  know what a simple push up is and we don't care even if we know how to do it.
The reality is we are called to engage in fitness by doing our normal daily activities.
You see i grew in the village where the means of everything from transportation to labor are rudimentary or sometime inexistant. The circumstances dictated that we physically engaged in different activities.
Basically our cardiovascular exercises consisted of walking really long distance to go to school, to the farm or to any other place and this happened everyday of the year. The case of school for exemple when i was growing up, the clasees were in two shifts,so i used to make four trips of about seven miles one trip each school day. Until i left the village i didn't remember ever ride on any vehicle. also the running moment came when hunting or when late in class, because we never possessed a clock, it tended to happen often. How could one not burn calories to the bones.

Our strenght exercise consisted of carying heavy things on top of our heads for example getting water from the well at about a mile or two from home or fetching woods for fire or carrying product from the farm sometime at about ten miles. Also working in the farm conditioned me as well, using machettes to cut grass and trees was the brutal arm strenghening method possible, How could one not become strong?

Consequently those normal daily activities are what make the African(me) physically fit with an accompanying factor that the food they comsume comes directly from the farm(organic)

So what is wrong with the people of the West Hemisphere is that they lack those natural activities.
Well i beleive that every individual is free to choose to bring a bit of a natural in their lifestyle.
you can choose to walk sometimes or use the bike rather than driving,
Think fitness when doing even the household activities
Think fitness when playing with the kids.
It is about fitness.