To pursue fitness or not to pursue fitness

To pursue fitness or not to pursue fitness that is the question.Before we can answer that question in the affirmative I think it is important to know what is meant by the word fitness. What are the images conjured up when the word fitness is uttered within ear shot. Do images of tread mills, cold steel,bland food,and sore muscles flash through your mind? If this is your thinking, you are not alone.Many of us equate increased fitness with deprivation,fatigue and exhaustion: in short...torture.

The images provoked by the word still does not give us a clear definition.Personal fitness is most associated today with physical fitness.Ay there's the rub! To think of fitness in such a limited manner is tantamount to the blind man's declaration that the whole of an elephant is his trunk. To define fitness as just a function of the physical self is a prescription for frustration and failure.

The definition of fitness must address the whole being. The whole being is constructed from physical,spiritual,emotional,social,and cognitive stuff.A holistic definition of fitness is mandatory for any hope of achieving anything worthy or lasting.So after all that blah blah blah what is your definition of fitness?