#1 Reason Why Fitness Enthusiasts Should Be Cross Training

Over-all fitness improvement can only be				exercises bike.Since physical training is specific...
achieved by making a compromise between ALL				you are effectively training your body's ability to
of the physical abilities needed for fitness				perform machine resistance exercises and ride a
excellence... and using cross training to improve				stationary bike.Your body will make the necessary
those abilities.If you are a fitness enthusiast				changes to allow you to perform those activities
interested in improving health and over-all physical				more efficiently in the future.However, since true
abilities which will enable you to meet the				fitness is the compromise of physical abilities and
challenges of sport, work and life with excellence...				the seamless transition from one physical ability to
you should be cross training!Cross training is a				another... your physical training time would be
form of training that uses more than one method				better served by using cross training between a
to achieve the desired physical goals.For example,				wider variety of training methods, stresses and
a runner might also train on the stationary bike				intensities.Cross training allows you to use many
with the hopes of improving their running				different training methods, stresses and intensities
performance.The debate continues as to whether				to create an environment for you body to
this type of cross training is truly beneficial for				improve over a wide spectrum of physical
elite athlete performance improvement.But what				abilities... and not just one method, stress or
about when we look at the training methods of				intensity producing specialized fitness.Cross training
the fitness enthusiast?... someone that physically				can keep you from overtraining one aspect of
trains for health and over-all fitness				fitness... at the expense of all the others.Cross
improvement.In my opinion... Fitness enthusiasts				training is fun... meaning you will be more likely to
should be cross training if they want to optimize				keep you physical fitness training program on
strength, conditioning and fitness.One physical				track for the long haul.Cross training can help you
training method cannot provide enough varied				make physical activity a part of your lifestyle... the
stimulus to improve all the physical abilities needed				surest way to long term health.In short, cross
for fitness excellence... this can only be				training can develop a body that is fit to do many
accomplished by using cross training between				activities well under the greatest amount of
various physical training methods, stresses and				circumstances... allowing you to meet the random
intensities.The #1 Reason Fitness Enthusiasts				challenges of sport, work and life with
Should Be Cross Training?Fitness is the degree of				excellence.In conclusion...Most commercial fitness
competence in the ability to perform in all the				programs are a limited form of cross training...
areas of cardiorespiratory endurance, strength,				combining resistance training in the form of
power, speed, flexibility, balance, coordination,				machines and cardiovascular training in the form
agility, accuracy and toughness... not the ability to				of aerobic activity.Unfortunately, this cross training
perform one physical ability well.That's right...				combination alone is not enough to train all the
fitness is a compromise between various physical				physical abilities needed for fitness excellence.Only
abilities!It would then stand to reason that a				through cross training with a large variety of
physical fitness program should be designed to				physical training methods, stresses and intensities
"optimize" the competence of all the physical				can the fitness enthusiast reach their true physical
abilities and their interaction with one another... and				potential.Cross training is the best way to optimize
not "maximize" only one physical skill.This can only				physical performance for the fitness
be done through cross training.Let me give you an				enthusiast!Eddie Lomax is a strength, conditioning
example of what I mean...Suppose you are limiting				and fitness coach and founder of Optimum
your training to the combination of resistance				Physical Training. We recommend his book
training in the form of exercise machines and				Unchained Bodyweight Workout.
aerobic exercise in the form of riding the

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#1 Reason Why Fitness Enthusiasts Should Be Cross Training