Fitness

[SunsetRunner]

Fitness goes beyond the number on a scale it's great to know making progress in changing body composition.

The scale doesn't tell how good a workout was, or how fit you are.

It's possible being fit at a higher weight and being unfit at a even healthy weight.

In case being sedentary at a healthy weight but as soon going upstairs making leaving exhausted..

While it's important to eat healthy foods overall to nourish the body with natural foods. It's also important to get / stay fit by walking or exercise.

Just got Fitstar, it's for iOS and Android. The Blaze has Fitstar exercises on the tracker though the app has much more to offer.

Got exhausted from the Fit test alone, the exercise plan builds up gradually based on your fitness level.

It's not required to exercise every day, the plans are for example to workout 2x a week if just starting or 3x, 4x, to 6 times a week depending on the duration and intensity. Of course can be done at own pace.

Be kind to your precious body to have rest days. Recovering and not overtraining is important to.

To unlock all features premium subscription is required. It's about the average price of a game on the pc or other console.

Have Fun reaching your goals

[SunsetRunner]

I do agree with you that “Fitness goes beyond the number on a scale”.

Body weight is often used as a measure of fitness progress. When we attempt to change our figure and we don’t see pounds dropping off of the scale, we have a tendency to be hard on ourselves, even if we see that we have made progress in the mirror.

Our discouragement is based on the mistake that we think that we must be losing weight in order to change our body composition. We often forget about the fact that muscle, fat, bone, and water all play an important role in what number we see on the scale.

Our body composition means more than our weight. Body composition comes from:

• Muscle: 30-55% of body weight,
• Fat: 10-30% of body weight,
• Water (not in muscle or fat): 10-25%,
• Bone: 15% of body weight,
• Organs, other tissues: 10-15%.

Thank you for your insight and suggestions!

Cheers!

[bcalvanese]

I have this crazy theory that body weight is directly related to fitness level.

I know it sounds funny but as I see walkers/joggers at all the places that I walk/jog, I notice that the heavier the people are, the more they seem to be struggling with their breathing, and the fitter people never seem to be struggling at all.

When I was obese, I struggled a lot, and now that I consider myself to be at a fair fitness level, I am only 5 to 10 lbs. over weight. I would be willing to bet that once I get to what I consider a good fitness level I will be at a healthy weight.

I don't realy count calories any more but it seems to just happen as I improve my fitness level.

I know... I'm crazy...:)

[Mukluk4]

I'd have to disagree, it depends on what constitutes that weight.  I am by no means in a healthy BMI range, but I dropped 30 pounds last year (down to 265ish) and my sports performance suffered.  I put on about 10 pounds (muscle and probably fat) over the summer and my game improved.  

[shipo]

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@bcalvanese wrote:

I have this crazy theory that body weight is directly related to fitness level.

I know it sounds funny but as I see walkers/joggers at all the places that I walk/jog, I notice that the heavier the people are, the more they seem to be struggling with their breathing, and the fitter people never seem to be struggling at all.

When I was obese, I struggled a lot, and now that I consider myself to be at a fair fitness level, I am only 5 to 10 lbs. over weight. I would be willing to bet that once I get to what I consider a good fitness level I will be at a healthy weight.

I don't realy count calories any more but it seems to just happen as I improve my fitness level.

I know... I'm crazy...:)

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The thing about the folks you see who are heavy and struggling versus folks who do not appear to be heavy and are cruising along with no issues is, probably for the most part, correct.  That said, there are many of us, myself included, who are overweight who don't necessarily look overweight.  Again, using my own body as an example, it is 5' 8" in height and when I get on the scale it typically shows 3 pounds either side of 200 (per the silly BMI charts I should weigh less than 160).  Even with all of my excess weight, or maybe because of said weight, I am very competitive in my age group in running.

[bcalvanese]

I'm sure there are acceptions, but in general, it's just something I notice.