Health
and fitness are vital to your quality of life! Whether you're thinking
about beginning a journey to health and fitness or are already on one,
this is the place for news, information, and a consumer advocacy approach
to health and fitness training for strength, wellbeing, mindfulness, and
life enrichment.
The modern health and fitness revolution began in the latter nineteenth
century. Until the 1960's, it was called physical culture. In the span
of little more than a century, It's grown like wildfire. Many of the ideas
about health and fitness, including training and diet, even training equipment,
haven't radically changed in the past hundred years. Fads and marketing
hype would have you falsely believe radically new ways of training will
shape you up overnight little to no effort. Genuine fitness and health
is a practical form of physical culture. As with any program of cultural
education and training, regular practice over a lifetime results in mastery
and artistry. There are no quick fixes. Instead, enduring health, well-being,
and character result from learning to care for your quality of life.
Long
Life Fitness maintains an editorial policy of rising above the fads and
hype, hence is neither "old school" nor "latest craze."
A century and more of exercise science indicates certain enduring perennial
principles govern success with fitness and health: those principles include
fun, relaxation, concentrated intensity, and variety. Too many programs
facilitate iatrogenic training - training that results in imbalances that,
in turn, facilitate injury.
Many
home gyms include some equipment more than forty and fifty years of age
- equipment that works just as well now as when it was new - and has a
longer life expectancy than anyone reading this! Some new equipment and
ideas about training offer benefits impoving training. Your equipment
choices should be solid and durable for a lifetime of enjoyable use, and
your health and fitness program should be as sound as your equipment.
Long Life Fitness monitors the pulse of health
and fitness and strength training to bring you up-to-date information.
In fact, we are a new concept in health and fitness and longevity in that
we bring together physical fitness, stress management, nutritional and
dietary fitness, and dis-ease management--all as aspects of fitness for
the whole person, not as competing ideas that generate fragmentation.
Our
articles embrace a wide range issues about health and fitness, including
success stories and information about breakthrough research in brain/mind
fitness and stress management - all geared toward making your fitness
training more concentrated and more successful in less time. Cutting edge
health and fitness research increasingly re-integrates body and mind,
resulting in new, integrative and unifying ways of training that yields
faster, easier success and enrichment in all of your life.
Ken
O'Neill, MA, CFT