经过迈克尔·克鲁格
Because I’m a trainer, people assume that I’m very fit and very healthy. Outward appearance would tend to lend some credence to this assumption, but appearances can be deceiving.
我实际上很健康，但是至于健康的部分，我真的不知道。这在某种程度上取决于您问谁以及他们在评估中使用的参数。
So, with this in mind, I’ll ask you the same question, “Are you fit and healthy?”
什么合适？
There are numerous ways to determine where you fall on the fitness continuum for your sex, age, job, sport, or any other category to which you might belong. There are tables that you may consult, which will tell you where you should be to be “normal” or “average,” which, in fact, are two different things, but that’s a discussion for another time.
健身需求的差异很大，您的生活中要实现的目标很大。消防员的需求与计算机程序员的需求完全不同。如果您的职位描述包括能够在面对火的同时爬上60多磅的衣服和设备，那么您最好很健康。
On the other hand, sitting at a computer for hours on end requires a type of “fitness” that is very different from what we might normally associate with “being fit.” Being sedentary is very hard on your body. It wreaks havoc on your heart and circulatory system. The posture that you maintain while seated can have detrimental effects on your skeletal and nervous systems. Pinched nerves and muscle strains are very common among office workers.
There is a minimum level of fitness that everyone, regardless of occupation, really ought to aspire to. This doesn’t mean competing in a triathlon or being a power lifter. We have a somewhat confused idea of what minimum fitness really is. I could give you data that are very quantitative, and your performance may or may not indicate that you are fit, which would just confuse matters even more.
My way of determining someone’s fitness is less numbers oriented and more real life performance based. Life fitness has more to do with asking yourself whether or not you are able to participate in life day to day in the way that you want. “Can you do your job?” is a good question with which to start. Are you avoiding activities because either you don’t feel physically up to the challenge or because you would feel uncomfortable even trying to participate? Feeling depressed is sometimes associated with a lack of fitness too, so that’s a question to ask yourself. Research has found that regular activity is good for your brain, so how are you doing in that department? Feelings of embarrassment concerning your appearance is another issue; lack of self-esteem can affect many aspects of your life. All of these situations can lead to social isolation, and that’s detrimental to both physical and mental health and your overall sense of well-being.
So, being fit means more than just the score you achieve on a bunch of tests. Let’s face it, most people who are “unfit” would score poorly on physical fitness tests simply because they don’t do any of the activities that make up the tests. If you don’t do push-ups regularly, you probably won’t do very well on a push-up test. On the other hand, if you practice push-ups for a week or two, you’ll probably test better simply because you got better at doing push-ups, not because you actually got stronger.
为了追求健身，重要的是要了解您现在的位置以及您想去的地方。至于您现在的位置，您不需要知道您的infortion缩或您的vo2最大是。If you have been struggling just to get through your day, your pants don’t fit too well, you huff and puff climbing stairs, and you spend way too much time on the couch watching Netflix, you know where you’re at and you know it’s not good. What’s even more important though is that you it’s not where you want to be.
Your fitness is easier to improve on than your health. If you make changes to your fitness routine beginning today, you’ll see quantifiable results in a matter of weeks. If you decide to improve your “health” and expect to see immediate changes, well, that’s another matter ….
Let’s talk about health.
What’s Health?
If you’ve been to doctor in the past year, you probably know where you fall with regard to some basic health parameters. You know what your heart rate, blood pressure, and body weight were on the day you were at the clinic. They may have mentioned your body mass index (BMI) and, based on that, recommended losing a pound or two. If you were there for a more extensive physical, then your blood sugar, cholesterol, kidney function, and a myriad of other data may have been spread out before you, each indicating … something.
您可能已经开了一种或多种药物。您可能会惊讶地发现，在您的最后一个身体上，您被告知一切都很好，但是现在，即使取得相同或改进的结果，您也不再“很好”，但是被告知您需要服用药物。这样的方式与“健康”不同。以前的好处可能不再足够了，医疗保健行业可以为您提供一些东西。
Don’t get me wrong on this point. I know that many adverse health events have been prevented due to modern medicine. Drugs that lower blood pressure and reduce cholesterol and blood sugar have been a literal lifesaver for those who need them. Keeping these three (mostly) lifestyle metabolic conditions under control has made all the difference in many people’s lives. There are also many chronic illnesses that we now have treatments for that have enabled sufferers to live more productive and pain-free lives. This is a very good thing for the individual and for society in general.
Of course, there have been side effects as well. I’m not talking so much about issues directly tied to the drugs but rather in the attitude of those who take them and for the way we as a people view preventable illnesses. We have come to believe that having a preventable condition “controlled” is the same as being “cured” or “healthy”; it’s not.
我知道那些吃任何想要的东西的人，因为饭后他们检查了血糖并用胰岛素开枪。他们不知道自己实际上是糖尿病患者，尽管在目前控制血糖很重要，但这不是长期的负责任行为。正如许多患者似乎相信的那样，用药物胰岛素拍摄并不能“治愈”糖尿病。他们认为，只要他们随身携带胰岛素，他们就可以吃任何想要的东西，而且没有问题……这不是一个好方法。
I once interviewed a prospective client, and he provided me with a (rather substantial) list of the drugs he was taking. I couldn’t help but comment on the large number of illnesses he had for a man of his age. He took umbrage with my comment and said that he didn’t have high blood pressure or diabetes or any of the illnesses he was taking drugs for. I asked why he was taking them then, and he said because they “cured” him, and as long as he takes the drugs he would remain “cured.” That’s like a junkie saying, “As long as I can get my heroin, I won’t go into withdrawal so I’m fine.”
There are “good” drugs” and “bad” drugs. Good drugs can literally cure you of an illness. These drugs come in too many varieties to mention and cure too many illnesses to count. I was very glad for the antibiotics I was given for a nasty staph infection in my right elbow; those were “good” drugs.
其他好的药物允许患有慢性，衰弱和无法治愈的疾病的人在没有痛苦和痛苦的情况下生活。这些药物通常会使他们有正常寿命和正常日常功能的机会。这些是我们经常说的现代医学的奇迹，是人类的恩赐。
Bad drugs (I don’t mean literally bad but metaphorically bad) can control a situation, delaying the onset of worst things that may come from the situation, which is, in fact, a good thing. Many of these drugs are used long term to treat illnesses caused by lifestyle choices. Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and hypertension once again top the list.
If you’ve been prescribed one of these drugs, it should be a major wake-up call to change the way you are living and thinking. Losing weight, eating better, and getting more exercise will in many cases make these drugs unnecessary. Personal responsibility for the things you can affect is the real cure and the only permanent one for these lifestyle diseases.
身体健康
Fitness is nearly 100 percent under your control, and there is no reason that you aren’t on top of this aspect of your life. I’ve heard every excuse imaginable for justifying the lack of personal responsibility regarding fitness. These excuses are flat-out worthless, and they don’t change a thing. Push away from the table, eat something green, get off your butt, get moving, and accept that it is your responsibility and the fitness part of the equation will fall right into place.
健康更加艰难，因为您可以做正确的事情并仍然遇到问题。许多疾病完全无法控制；就是那样子。遗传学，环境和仅仅是古老的厄运不在您的控制范围内。饮食良好，睡眠，锻炼身体，建立牢固的个人关系和积极的态度将为您改善健康带来很长的路要走，即使生活在生活中，您也会有很长的路要走。没有保证，但是至少您将在此过程中过上美好的生活。
So, do all you can to positively affect what you can affect and avoid the avoidable; with a little luck, something unseen won’t sneak up and take you down. That’s really living life to the fullest …
…no regrets.
迈克尔·克鲁格是NSCA认证的私人教练。在美国海岸警卫队任职时，他开始接受健身训练。他与威斯康星州麦迪逊市及其周围的消防员和其他人合作。他可以为消防部门，公民组织和运动团队提供培训，咨询和演讲活动。他发表了许多有关健身，健康和身心连接的文章，并在德克萨斯州达拉斯的IAFC 2009年健康日上发表了演讲者。通过电子邮件将他发送给mkptllc@gmail。
