Do you know the difference between fitness and health?



  1. Endurance (Cardiovascular and Cardio-Respiratory): This is your body’s ability to use and deliver oxygen to your body.
  2. Stamina (Muscular Endurance): This is your body’s ability to store, process, and use energy.
  3. Strength: This is the ability of your muscles or a muscular unit to apply force.
  4. Flexibility: The ability to maximize the range of motion of a joint.
  5. Power: The ability of your muscles to maximize their force in a minimum amount of time.
  6. Speed: The ability to minimize the amount of time it takes you to accomplish a task or movement.
  7. Coordination: The ability to combine several different movement patterns in a single distinct movement.
  8. Accuracy: The ability to control a movement in a given direction or intensity.
  9. Agility: The ability to minimize the time going from one movement to another.
  10. Balance: The ability to control the centre of gravity of your body in relation to your support base.


Fitness involves activity of some sort that stimulates various systems of the body and maintains a certain condition within the body. Health, on the other hand, involves every system of the body and is only achieved through a lifestyle that supports health.

For instance, if a client of mine tells me that they have neglected to eat properly, ignored the fat content, and ate mostly processed foods, all the exercise in the world couldn’t possibly correct the damage done from such a lifestyle.

Exercise won’t remove the damage from chemicals, or improve immune system damage or weakness from depleted foods. Only sound nutrition can support good health. Of course, fitness can ALSO support health and WILL improve health if it is part of a WAY OF LIFE. Our health is mainly the result of thousands of daily nutritional decisions.

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