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Fitness vs. training: Why the difference matters
Training is temporary, fitness is foreverIt used to be that whenever I would re-embark on a fitness regime I would get carried away with quantifying everything. Whether it was laps in the pool, kilometers walked, or meters climbed on the bike, if I could count it I did. By quantifying everything I was able to track how much work I was doing, and since improvement was, at least in my mind, directly related to how many reps I did, how far I swam or pedaled, or how hard I worked then it was easy to gauge the success of what I was doing. If I walked five kilometers a day one week I wanted to make it six by the end of the following week. This is not a typical fitness mindset but I think it is quite common for many of us currently or previously involved in sport to think about our fitness activities this way. I felt that if I wasn't turning in ever increasing numbers then I wasn't improving and was wasting my time. READ THE FULL ARTICLE....