Why Is Total Body Wellness So Important?

The human body is a marvel of design and a wonder of complexity. In order for the body to function properly, the different components of your body must work harmoniously together. This underscores the importance of total body wellness.

While there is a multitude of internal systems that affect the way your body works, most medical professionals divide the primary components of fitness into different groups, such as cardiorespiratory capacity, muscular capacity, and body composition. Each one of these must be working properly in order to ensure that you are functioning at your best.

Cardiorespiratory capacity is important because it defines your body’s ability to intake oxygen and then deliver that oxygen to your cells. Once the oxygen is delivered to your cells, your body uses that oxygen to create the energy that you need in order for your body to do the work that it needs to do. Most people are familiar with the term aerobic capacity. Aerobic capacity determines how hard your body can work, how long your body can work, and how efficiently your body can work based on the amount of oxygen it takes in and the energy that it produces.

Your muscular capacity is the way that your muscles work. It could pertain to endurance, which is the ability that your muscles have to continually apply force over an extended period of time. Or endurance could be seen as your body’s ability to perform repeated contractions for an extended period of time. When looking at your muscular capacity, we are also talking about the amount of force that your muscles can exert in one single movement. It’s the ability to generate that explosive movement that you often see in athletes.

When talking about body composition, we are looking at things like the ratio of bone to muscle to fat in your body. When your body composition is healthy, the chances of you developing things like heart disease, diabetes, and other illnesses drastically decrease. This is why medical professionals put a lot of emphasis on things like your body mass index.

These are just a few of the factors that are considered when it comes to total body wellness. All of these factors should be taken into consideration with the end goal of helping you to improve your health and maintain good health throughout your life.

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