What is the secret to fitness?


What is the secret to fitness?


Well, for starters, fitness never attacked anyone, was never bestowed upon anyone, was never achieved without due effort. To get fit, overall or for a specific activity, requires participation on a regular basis.

 


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What is the secret to fitness? Well, for starters, fitness never attacked anyone, was never bestowed upon anyone, was never achieved without due effort. To get fit, overall or for a specific activity, requires participation on a regular basis. If you do the work, you will get the results, eventually. Fitness comes in small and sometime unnoticeable increments, the way sneakers wear out, one molecule at a time. Your body adapts to the demands you place upon it, changing so as to become better at supplying whatever ability it takes to better perform your chosen activity. Like getting a tan or learning to play a musical instrument, if you just keep doing what you can do, you will improve, and be able to do a little more, go a little faster, or a little further, or a bit better.

Once you get it in your head that you CAN do better, you quickly come to expect yourself to perform at the new improved level. Once again, simply repeat the process. Train regularly. Experience a bit of overload, the reasonable challenge to which your body will adapt. Soon enough, you will find yourself in the position of having improved, expecting even more from yourself, and starting with the renewed vigor, fueled by your recent accomplishment, to push for even greater gains.

“Are you a runner,” I’m frequently asked. I don’t consider myself a runner, so I answer “No, why,” wondering if maybe I was wearing a running t-shirt, or it was my sneakers, or if they had seen me running. “Your legs look like a runner’s legs,” I am told. Not sure if this is a compliment or not, I choose to take it as one, and respond accordingly. Before I started running on a regular basis, no one had ever asked me this question, but now, after 20 years of running at least a few times a week, I get it a lot. The activities you choose today will continue to show on you for years to come. Consider that in five years you will be wearing the physique you’ve developed over the past decade, and you can see the importance of choosing wisely. What do you wish to look like a decade from now? Start training for your chosen physique today, knowing you’ll be developing it for years, and wearing it for years to come.

Additional Resources

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About Dr. Doug Graham

Dr. Douglas Graham, a lifetime athlete and raw fooder since 1978, is an advisor to world-class and motivated athletes and trainers from around the globe. He has worked professionally with top performers from almost every sport and every field of entertainment, including such notables as tennis legend Martina Navratilova, NBA pro basketball players Ronnie Grandison and Michael Porter Jr., track Olympic sprinter Doug Dickinson, pro women's soccer player Callie Withers, championship bodybuilder Kenneth G. Williams, Chicken Soup for the Soul coauthor Mark Victor Hansen, and actress Demi Moore. As owner of a fasting retreat in the Florida Keys for ten years, Dr. Graham personally supervised thousands of fasts. He was in private practice as a chiropractor for twenty years, before retiring to focus on his writing and speaking. Dr. Graham is the author of many books on health and raw food including The 80/10/10 Diet, The High Energy Diet Recipe Guide, Nutrition and Athletic Performance, Grain Damage, Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries, and his latest, Perpetual Health 365. He has shared his strategies for success with audiences at more than 4,000 presentations worldwide. Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern raw movement, Dr. Graham is the only lecturer to have attended and given keynote presentations at all of the major raw events in the world for each of the last eight years. Dr. Graham has served on the board of governors of the International Association of Professional Natural Hygienists and the board of directors of the American Natural Hygiene Society. He is on the board of advisors of Voice for a Viable Future, Living Light Films, Vegetarian Union of North America, and EarthSave International and serves as nutrition advisor for the magazine Exercise, For Men Only. Dr. Graham is the raw foods and fitness advisor for The801010Forum.com. He taught the Health Educator program at Hippocrates Institute, served as the "source authority" for Harmonious Living, and authors a column for the magazines Get Fresh! and Vibrance (previously known as Living Nutrition). Dr. Graham is the creator of "Simply Delicious" cuisine and director of Health and Fitness Week, which provides Olympic-class training and nutrition for people of all fitness levels in beautiful settings around the world. He will inspire, motivate, educate, and entertain you like no one else in the health movement can.