How to achieve healthy and fit body

Getting physically healthy and fit is very important in our lives.
A lack of energy balance most often causes overweight and obesity. Energy balance means that your energy-in equals your energy-out.

Getting healthy and fit.
Our lives have become busier and continue to get more hectic every day.
On top of demanding careers, we have to juggle many everyday tasks, one of which is working out.
We are constantly faced with the image of the “ideal body,” be it impossibly lean women donning the latest fashion garments on billboards, or extremely chiseled men in lifestyle magazines. This raises the question: how is it possible for us to sculpt that kind of muscle with our time constraints? Perhaps more importantly, do we have to go to fitness extremes to get the kind of body we’d be content with?
Of course, you don’t need to train at the pace of an Olympic athlete to feel good about yourself and your body. By making a point of regularly working out at a moderate to hard intensity and following a health-conscious lifestyle, it is certainly possible to attain a physique that makes you proud, and turns a few heads too! Consider these pointers to make the most of your workout:

1. Consult a personal trainer
   Everyone’s fitness goals varies, and these professionals will be able to help you tailor a fitness regimen that is constructed to deliver the best results in terms of your requirements, capabilities and objectives. The personal trainers at www.myhealthandfitness.co.za have their fingers on the pulse of all the newest developments in the world of exercise.
   
2. Lift weights
   Hitting the gym for some resistance training three or four days a week is definitely a great idea. Lifting weights increases your metabolism, forcing your body to burn fat faster, and also causes your muscles to break down and rebuild themselves – meaning, of course, that they become more defined.
   
3. Have fun
   The whole point of getting fit and healthy is to get the most out of life, right? To supplement your gym time, consider participating in an activity you actually enjoy. Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn tae kwondo (a martial art), or how to ride a horse. Or perhaps you find yourself reminiscing about your varsity surfing days?
   Incorporating fitness into your social life, such as joining a mountain-climbing club or going mountain biking with your peers over weekends, is also going to make working out much more appealing and, consequently, more enjoyable.
   
4. Talk to a dietitian
   The idea of six compact meals a day does have proven efficacy. But for the most part, it’s simply not possible to prepare and sit down for six dining occasions. Also, social gatherings often revolve around a large meal. For this purpose, it’s a good idea to incorporate the services of a dietitian. They are qualified to assess your body’s nutritional needs and work out a diet schedule to suit your unique requirements.
   
5. Take the small things into account
   Make sure you get enough sleep. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, and carry your shopping bags instead of pushing them out of the store with the shopping cart. If possible, walk to work. Replace binge-watching series with physical activity. You’d be surprised at the results even a few minor changes could deliver.
   It’s good to have fitness goals, and even better when you achieve them. But, unless you are a professional athlete, health and fitness shouldn’t be seen as something that has to take over every minute of your daily existence. It’s better viewed as an element that will optimise life.
   The health and fitness tips were provided to Kathorus MAIL by Danielle Cargnelutti, manager of Limico Media Company and Zandile Ntsham, public relations officer of the same company.

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