Fitness

There are many levels of fitness. If an individual states that they want to get fit what do they mean? Fit to live? fit to drop? fit to work? fit to run a marathon, fitness fanatic? Everybody has different concepts of what fitness is whether gained from the media, friends, life experience. As physiotherapists we have to bear this in mind when treating clients and be sure not to impose our concept of fitness onto them. To be fit can be a never ending quest with no goal at the end ither than to keep progessing or it may mean to climb a certain mountain, walk 100 metres to the local shop every day. A certainty however is that everyone can improve his or her fitness to some degree, all that is needed is confidence and knowledge.