A: You're in luck. The truth is that fitness, wellness and pathology (sickness) are measures of the same entity, that is your health. It looks like this:

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Sickness                                        Wellness                                                      Fitness

This continuum is measurements of: Blood Pressure, Body Fat, Bone Density, Triglycerides, Good and Bad Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, Body Fat, Flexibility, Muscle Mass, etc.Done right, fitness provides a great margin of protection against the ravages of time and disease.Fitness is “super-wellness”. If your goal is to be fit and healthy you will, by definition, be an athlete.

Last updated on April 25, 2011 by Matt W