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There are numerous definitions of fitness today but one that has stood the test of time was that proposed by Aristotle around about 2,500 years ago. He put it quite simply when he said that something that is well suited to its purpose is fit. If we look at the human body and examine its skeleton, muscles, lungs, cardiovascular system and endocrine system I think it is fair to say that it is suited to its purpose.

However, while the human body may be well suited to its purpose and therefore fit, it will only stay that way with regular exercise for each and every one of its component parts.

For example, physical activity causes your heart to work harder, increasing blood flow which both floods the body with fresh oxygen and removes waste products.

Similarly, exercise increases your lung capacity so that it can draw in extra oxygen to bathe the tissues and help power the heart. Greater lung capacity also means greater exhalation to remove harmful carbon dioxide, which is a waste product of certain chemical reactions within the body.

Regular, exercise helps to increase High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (which is one ‘good’ form of cholesterol. It also helps to regulate blood sugar levels and converts stored fat into sugars that are used to provide energy. This process helps to prevent obesity and is important in the control of such conditions as diabetes.

All of these benefits, while very real, are also largely unseen but other benefits of a regular fitness program are more obvious and include an increased muscle mass, toned legs, arms, stomach, buttocks, and a generally healthier looking skin. At the same time exercise provides greater strength, improved balance, higher endurance and, more often than not, a better mental outlook on life.

Of course different forms of exercise routine will concentrate on different areas of the body. Aerobic routines will help the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems, weight training builds muscle tone and mass, pilates and yoga aid balance, flexibility and muscular control. But, while each of these may focus on particular areas, they all help to improve fitness throughout the body, since the various systems of the body are all inter-connected.

Best of all, these benefits, at least to some extent, can be achieved with a minimum of daily effort. Moderately intense activity for as little as 20 to 30 minutes each day, five days a week, will go a long way toward improving your overall fitness.

A number of simple activities which provide excellent exercise can be performed without the need for any special training or equipment. These might include a brisk walk, a short daily jog or even simply taking the stairs rather than the elevator.

More vigorous activity such as playing tennis, a few laps in the swimming pool, an hour on the treadmill or exercise bike, or any of a dozen other activities, can increase your fitness considerably with only a small investment of time and money.

For those who are really committed to achieving a high level of fitness then there are numerous gym available and just about every kind of home fitness equipment imaginable can be purchased today at prices to fit all budgets.

An aerobics workout gets the lungs working to get more air into your body and more carbon dioxide out. Though initially it produces only short gasps, recovery during resting time often leads to deeper and easier breathing. This is crucial in helping the body to naturally heal itself.

Meditative Aerobics Workout.

Few people realize the value of a regular meditative aerobics workout. Most people incorporate lively and loud music to their cardio workouts, and is in fact the fad nowadays. But there is greater health value in doing them in the quiet of early mornings. Meditative exercises can do wonders to overall health and faster healing. This is the principle behind the health and healing benefits of slow and rhythmic exercises like tai-chi, yoga, and inner martial arts.

Correct Meditative Exercises.

An aerobic workout done outdoors amid lush green surroundings, or in a quiet open space, is meditative. Focus on your body cadence, making sure there is a continuous smooth flow of breathing and body movements. There should be no awkward movement sequences when moving the limbs and the body. When breathing is hard and you seem to run out of breath, it means something is upsetting the flow. You may be doing things too fast or doing something that punishes the body more than exercising it. To remedy this, just let everything flow smoothly, with artistic balance and symmetry. Remember rhythmic movement.

Be aware, too, of the rich supply of oxygen going through the nose, trachea, and into the lungs. When the lungs are worked out enough through rapid breathing, resting time can be supplemented with breathing. Breathing should gradually go deeper as the gasping recovery time normalizes. Then, when it has fully recovered, do slow and deep breathing, again being aware of the movement of oxygen from the nose down the trachea and into the lungs. After a while, resume your aerobics workout in a meditative exercise mode.

How Healing is Helped.

Aside from the feel-good endorphins released in an aerobic workout, cardio meditative exercises get lots of oxygen into your respiratory system. This is essential for cell repair, food supply, and energy. Thus, as meditative exercises do great things for your emotions, important repair and nourishment is happening at the cellular level. Combine these two results and you get enormous two-pronged healing benefits.

It is a known fact how emotions can upset health due to harmful chemical reactions triggered during stress and distress. This is not to mention overeating habits that often accompany stress. With massive and regular doses of endorphins, plus strengthening of the immune system due to cellular repairs and nourishment, it’s easy to see how cardio workouts done as meditative exercises can aid in healing.

Examples of Great Cardio Workouts.

Exercises that benefit cardio and respiratory systems are jogging in place, jumping rope, tread mill, running, brisk walking, hiking, shadow boxing, yoga exercises, and dancing, to name a few. Aerobics should always be supplemented with some muscle weight training.

Healing is due largely to other vital factors like nutrition, medical treatments, healthy lifestyles, and faith. But we must realize the indispensable role of meditative aerobic workouts.

Baseball leadership has since the 19th Century called itself Big League. Now is the time and the hour to live up to that billing.

We may not be smarter than a fifth grader but it is high time we tried our dead level best to at least be as smart as a fifth grader.

Did baseball create the world situation whereby the fast paced life style of achieving and over achieving was an absolute must? A fifth grader would most likely answer No. Now are we collectively smart enough to agree with that fifth grader?

Baseball the most talked about and the most written about part of the World . It is only natural that the limelight or the blind eye hears, knows , sees, and ingests our digests every portion of the action pertaining to the game and the players.

The act of body enhancement be it for beauty or for strengths sake is a norm not the extraordinary. Recognize up front and proclaim this to be a truth. Now we have admitted the truth of the matter it now allows us a chance to remedy a shortsighted deficiency of our entire society.

Matter of fact Baseball that is the entire “Baseball World” can take its cap off, wave to the crowds and say “Yes we will be the Flag carrying Leader to solve this malady.” What more could an institution or group such as Big League Baseball wish than to go down in history as the Leader toward solving and helping to eliminate a situation tending to destroy our society.

Be as smart as a fifth grader understand the problem ,accept facts, accept responsibly and accept the honor to provide an answer. Placing blame when we are in this drug mad scramble together provides no solution only boils the pot.

Every military man, every president, every congressman, every boy scout, every girl scout, every witness, every walk of life take sworn oaths to do the right thing by the office or the endeavor unto which they are becoming involved. Will the baseball world put on this cloak of leadership and set an example so profound and encompassing that baseball becomes the one secular entity which turned the tide and changed a deteriorating society.

Baseball be challenged and be as smart as a fifth grader and understand that the past is prologue the future is now.

Adopt rules of conduct for baseball which could apply equally through out our society and simply enforce the rules.

There is nothing within the realm of reality which forces one to become a baseball player or to be a part of baseball management or for that matter even a baseball fan. Bad behavior and shirking the rules in a deliberate and profound manner should not be tolerated nor condoned. Dismissal post haste from participation should be natural and standard fare.

Baseball Big Leagues you now stand in the middle of the Bull Ring do the honrable thing fight to the death to rid “The Game” of this albatross and monkey on our back “The use of harmful body and mind bending drugs.”

Where or if ever in the course of history has one group or entity such as “Baseball” been placed in a position whereby the entire world is so keenly watching the final turn of events?

You are it. Be as smart if not smarter than a fifth grader.