Body composition

- Body composition describes the amount of fat, bone water, and muscle in the body, measuring
your body composition will tell you your own body’s unique makeup and help you identify areas
to work on to improve your overall health and wellness.

Problem with mi

- BMI has many limitations and is a poor tracking tool for weight change because there’s no way
to identify if changes in your weight are in fat or muscle
- Predicting health or mortality using a single number such as mi over simplifies health risks and
ignores important factors that contribute to positive health.
- When you’re trying to get healthier, you’re most likely focused on losing fat and gaining muscle.
Scales or mi cannot tell you how much of your weight loss is fat, muscle, or body water, but
body composition can.

Why do you need to understand your weight in terms of muscle and fat?

- By differentiating between muscle and fat, body composition removes the guesswork of
determining what your weight fluctuations mean, be it muscle gain, fat loss, or anything in
between

Does skinny always equal healthy?

- People who are skinny fat may look thin and healthy because they have an acceptable amount
of subcutaneous fat – the type of fat stored just under the skin – but they have increased health
risks due to an excessive amount of visceral fat and too little muscle mass.

What are the benefits of body composition?

- Find your baseline so you know what you need to lose, gain, or maintain
- Assess your body fat percentage so you can focus on fat loss, not just weight loss
- Maximize your workout routine to fit your unique health and fitness goals
- Calculate your caloric needs and create a personalized nutrition plan
- Set realistic goals, accurately monitor progress, and stay motivated
- Make more educated decisions to improve your body composition

What is fit principle

- Tried-and-true method of putting together an efficient workout plan

- You can think of the components as a set of rules to follow
- Great for monitoring your exercise progress
- Useful in helping researchers and healthcare professionals create the right exercise regimen for
people who had just had a stroke

Frequency

- This refers to how often you exercise. The point is to meet your goals without overtraining the
body

Intensity
 - This refers to how difficult an exercise is

Time

- This refers to the duration of each exercise

Type

- This refers to what kind of exercise you’ll be doing under the umbrella of cardio or strength
training

Benefits

- Its good for busting through plateaus

- Its great for alleviating boredom
- It can be used by all fitness levels