Fitness Tips : An ultimate guidebook for better fitness

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By: Abid Bazmi

A simple way to improve fitness is to improve your strength in three key areas i.e. neural strength, cardio-vascular strength and muscular strength.

Fitness is the overall well-being of your physique in sports and daily life activities. Improving fitness means to enhance your performance in all walks of life. There is a direct relation between fitness and success. So, fundamental question that naturally touches the fringes of human mind is how to improve fitness.

Key areas to improve fitness

Working in following three key areas will help you improve your fitness and physical strength. These areas are co-related and inter-dependent with one another. So ignoring any one key area means overall decline in performance. Optimum results can be achieved by improving your performance in each area.

1. Neural strength

Neural strength plays central role in physical fitness. Strong mind guarantees less psychological pressure from different socio-economic and environmental issues of our life. So improvement in neural strength plays the most important role in improving physical strength.

Tips to improve neural strength

• Be insensitive to the issues not directly related to your life. It will save a lot of your energy consumed in the issues having zero impact on your life.
• Live a target oriented life so that you may get maximum results out of minimum resources.
• Adopt mind relaxation and imagination techniques to keep your mind cool and calm. It will enhance your performance and put you on the next slot of success.
• Apply guided breathing and guided blood circulation techniques to keep your mind relaxed and afresh.
• Do regular exercise to boost up your immune system. It will produce neurotransmitters having good impacts on your neural system.

2. Cardio-vascular strength

Cardio-vascular strength means strength of heart and blood vessels. However heart is the central organ of this strength. Improving cardio-vascular strength means better blood circulation which is a key to overall fitness and physical strength.

Tips to improve cardio-vascular strength

• Do cardio-vascular exercises like swimming, cycling and running. It will enhance pumping capacity of your heart.
• Avoid extra-processed, over fried and junk food to keep your blood thin and energetic.
• Apply vasodilation techniques to improve the working capacity of blood vessels. It will keep your blood vessels clean and less rigid.
• Make your diet as natural as possible. Add more fruits and vegetables in your diet chart.
• Improve blood circulation to the peripheries of your body like head, upper limbs and lower limbs. For this you should do anaerobic exercises like sprinting 2-3 times a week.

3. Muscular strength

Muscles have 50% weight of our body. Strong muscles keep our body in proper shape even in old age. All the athletes and body builders give special focus to their muscles growth. So, strong muscles are very important in our physical fitness.

Tips to improve muscular strength

• Balanced diet, regular exercise and proper sleep is the key to muscular strength. So manage all these areas to build up your muscles naturally.
• Give special focus to the health of your liver as liver synthesizes many types of proteins and amino acids which are the construction materials of muscles.
• Do hard exercises to improve the strength of your muscles as muscles grow against the resistance.
• Movement of muscles is due to contraction of neurons. So improve your neural strength to get your muscles stronger and stronger.
• Add dairy products in your diet chart as they are the best natural sources of calcium and carbohydrates required for muscles growth. It will make your muscles grow naturally.

Conclusion:

Neural strength, cardio-vascular strength and muscular strength are three basic pillars of our physical strength and fitness. So making these pillars stronger and stronger means we are gradually improving our fitness and strength.

About author

Abid Bazmi is a blogger, motivational speaker, educationist, trainer and globally known human affairs analyst. Click here to visit his blog