How Important Is Your Health?
Is health an important issue to you? I will always ask this question to new clients or anyone that approaches me for fitness consultation. The reason is, if you want to start fitness training or if you want to get to understand more about fitness, the first thing you need to know should be why is health so important to you. My explanations on that will be simple, health is one thing you have and you can’t buy no matter what. Seriously, NOTHING can buy health!
I’ve noticed that more than 70% of the population in Malaysia are absolutely not health conscious. This 70% range from teenagers to adults. Obesity had been drastically increasing throughout the years; it’s not only happening in Malaysia, but unfortunately enough, it’s all over the world. In Malaysia, the statistics shows that approximately 16.6% of the population at 1996 were obese and overweight respectively. It’s year 2008 and surprisingly the percentage has not decreased, instead; it’s now even higher. Why aren’t Malaysian doing something about this serious issues? Don’t you worry about deceases such as coronary heart decease, diabetes, hypertension etc.
Being obese or overweight is one issue, the other issue will even though if you are light or small size; but if you have a body fat percentage, that doesn’t make you any healthier than you should be. Our health for the body had always and will always be measure by the percentage of body fat instead of the weight. Everyone tends to be emphasizing so much on their weight and neglected the most important thing of all. Body Fat Percentage! Most females even skip Numerous meals in order to get their “Dream Weight”. Personally, I think that’s ridiculous(no offence). Example : If you are a hot bikini model that weighs 100kg and have a body fat percentage of 8% with a tip top health. Should you still be worrying so much about those numbers on the weighing machine? The answer is “HELL NO!”.
Regardless of how well a person looks from the appearance, the most important thing shall always be your health and fitness level. Your health is the one that keeps you breathing and staying alive. Your health is the one that allows you to spend more time with your families and friends. Your health is the one that keeps you on your daily routine. It all comes back to your health. Appearance is merely a bonus for you when you have good health. By having the best body in the world and yet you are not eating right, not resting enough, drinking your liver away, smoking your lungs out. That will be a total waste of your life. There are so many people these days going to the gym, but only 10% of them truly works out, 20% tries to work out, 10% goes there to get to know the opposite sex, 20% goes there thinking by going to the gym itself will help you get fitter, 10% goes there cause they just need a place to get away, and the left over 30% will be those who goes to the gym as a trend in town. Sadly, out of the 10% that truly works out, 8% smokes, drinks, sleep late and DO NOT apply any health guidelines. So as I always say, “What’s the point?”.
I sincerely hope that more people are genuinely into practicing a healthier and fitter lifestyle. Think of the extra quality time you could spend with your love ones.
“Live Life; Stay Strong”
TrainerQunling
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