Saturday, July 7, 2007

Five Components of Fitness

The five components of fitness should all be considered when determining your fitness training program.

A good fitness instructor will look at these five components of fitness and discuss them with you when deciding on what you want to achieve from your fitness training.

A good all-around program should target all five components of fitness and these include cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility and body fat percentage.

A well-planned resistance training program will generally target all five components of fitness and with the addition of good dietary recommendations and cardiovascular work most people will find that they will improve considerably in all five components of fitness over a relatively short period of time.

Any program that is lacking in any one of these five components of fitness will have a detrimental effect on any of the other five components of fitness so it is quite important to consider this when determining what your fitness training program will incorporate.

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