Sustainable Fitness

 In my last post, Health vs. Fitness, I talked about the differences between the two. The take home is you can have a health body without being fit and a fit body without being healthy, but we want and need both! Today I want to talk briefly about sustainable fitness and what it means to me. Again, let's start with a definition-

Sustainable -  the potential for long-term maintenance of well being.

Fitness - Physiological headroom. The distance between the least you can do, and the most you can do. (re-worded from Arthur DeVany)

So if we put those together here is what it looks like-

Sustainable Fitness - The potential for long-term physiological headroom OR the ability to keep the most you can do as high as possible for as long as possible and far greater than the least you can do.


The below graph represents what sustainable