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Although eating the right food is vital for health, it's also important
to get some exercise.
But there are a lot of misconceptions about exercise and fitness
out there. How often have you heard someone use the term 'fit and
healthy'? It is often assumed that the two go hand in hand - a fit
person is a healthy person, right? Not necessarily....
If you don't have a reasonable level of fitness, you won't be fully
alive and healthy. But you can be very fit, and not at all healthy.
Partly this is because fitness is only one requisite
of health, and the others might have been neglected. But also
it can be that to be fit, or at the top of your field, you need
to sacrifice other aspects of health.
So one of the topics we'll be discussing in this section is Training,
and Overtraining. Other articles
to come will cover ways to stay active, have fun and maintain a
reasonable level of fitness, without trashing your body.
Also to be covered is Sports nutrition. The diets we've talked
about in other sections are diets for health, and are suitable for
someone who exercises for health. But a competitive sportsperson
has a much higher calorific and performance need and would need
to modify their intake accordingly.
More discussion of athletes' special requirements will be coming
soon, as this section gets a complete overhaul and update.
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