| 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 | | | | |