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What Is Fitness? (Part 2), continued
What Is Fitness? (Part 2)
Adapted from Coach Glassman’s Feb 21, 2009, L1 lecture. This concept started with me having what I call “a belief in fitness.” I was (and still am) of the view that there is a physical capacity that would lend itself generally well to any and all contingencies—to the likely, to the unlikely, to the known, to the unknown. This physical capacity is different than the fitness required for sport. One of the things that demarcates sport is how much we know about the event’s physiological demands. Instead, we are chasing headlong this concept of fitness—as a broad, general and inclusive adaptive capacity—a fitness that would prepare you for the unknown and the unknowable. And we went to the literature to look for such a definition and could not find anything. The information we did find seemed esoteric, irrelevant, or flawed— logically and/or scientifically. For example, to date the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) cannot give a scientific definition of fitness. They give a definition, but it contains nothing that can be measured. If it is not measurable, it is not a valid definition.
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