Differences between Health and Fitness
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Differences between Health and Fitness Health and fitness are an important part in everyday living. A good state of health enables you to cope with everyday demands of life in a physical, mental and social sense. It helps you to cope with emotional pressures and adapt to changing environments. Developing social skills is a huge part of being healthy enabling you to interact with new people from different classes and cultures. Fitness is a measure of the body's ability to complete activities necessary for everyday life effectively and efficiently. Fitness for sport however is often more specific and at a higher level. It has two main components being skill-related fitness based upon the neuromuscular system and determines how successfully a person can perform a specific skill. Health related factors are physiologically based and determine the ability of an individual to meet the physical demands of the activity. Both are...


