Fitness vs. Health vs. Wellness

Do your personal goals revolve around working out to stay in shape (fitness) — or working out for your mind, body and spirit (wellness)?

fitness vs. health vs. wellness

Fitness focuses on your physical health including nutrition, strength, conditioning, flexibility, and body composition with specific markers based on body size, gender, body type, training style, and training age. Fitness is a component of wellness, but wellness isn’t a component of fitness.

Health is a state of being – physical, mental, and social well-being. Primary determinants of health include the social, economic, and physical environments, and individual characteristics and behaviors.

Wellness (well-being) includes fitness but it’s broader. Wellness considers all of your choices and how they create your entire lifestyle. Wellness includes many facets, and looks at the way they interact to create balance or imbalance. Think of wellness as a web, then plucking it one part creates reverberations across the rest.

Wellness is the state of living a healthy lifestyle. Wellness is considered a conscious, self-directed and evolving process of achieving full potential. Wellness is multidimensional and holistic, encompassing lifestyle, mental and spiritual well-being, and the environment. Wellness is finding a balance between all of these and enhancing a sense of happiness.

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Improve Bone Health & Strength From Tai Chi & Qigong Practices!

How does that work?

Julius Wolff, an anatomist and surgeon around the late 1800’s, theorized that “bones in the human (and animal) body, will adapt to the stress that they are exposed to.” In other words, bones become stronger if you put them under stress through proper exercise

Watch part 1 (34 minutes) and part 2 (33 minutes) to learn how these exercises have passed the test of time, for improving and maintaining ones level of wellness.

Methods include stretching the spine, relieving stress, increasing oxygen intake and becoming more self-aware.

If you need help in getting yourself moving, consider attending one of my classes or some one-on-one instruction. Contact me for more information on getting started at 407-234-0119 or www.MindandBodyExercises.com

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Fitness vs. Wellness

Build Bone and Muscle Strength with Tai Chi and Qigong

September 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Build bone and muscle strength through Tai Chi and Qigong with Jim Moltzan, Zen Wellness Center Certified Qigong Master Instructor.

Join the senior health specialist at AdventHealth Medical Group for this free, enriching event. Meet skilled and knowledgeable health care professionals, have your questions answered, and receive free health and wellness information. For questions or to RSVP, please email Diane.Burns@AdventHealth.com

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Silk Reeling #1

Silk Reeling refers to internal (neigong) movement principles practiced in traditional styles of Tai Chi, especially emphasized within the Chen and Wu styles. The metaphoric term derives from the spiraling and twisting movements of the silkworm larva as it wraps itself within its cocoon. In order to draw out the silk successfully, the action must be smooth and consistent and flowing with no jerking or sharp change in direction. Too fast of a movement and the silk breaks. Too slow and it sticks to itself and becomes tangled. Silk Reeling movements are continuous, rhythmic and spiraling patterns practiced at consistent speed with a “light touch” of drawing silk. Silk reeling is practiced in solo forms and stances as well as in “push hands” with a partner.

Watch the video to see one method of stretching the spine, relieving stress, increasing oxygen intake and becoming more self-aware.