Maintaining a Healthy Body Composition

What are you made of?

...and in case you're wondering, I'm not talking about grit and self discipline---THIS time anyways.

I'm talking about your Body Composition.

The American Council on Exercise (ACE) tells us that "A healthy body represents a healthy body composition".

So in essence, the makeup of your body plays an integral role of its overall internal functioning.

Body composition is comprised of two general components:

1) Your body fat

2) Your non-fat body mass (organs, muscle mass, skeleton, etc)

I'm sure its no surprise that a big part of getting and maintaining a healthy body composition is keeping your body's fat levels under control while making sure that the non-fat parts of you are strong and in full working order at all times.

Generally speaking, a healthy body composition for women is considered to be between 21% and 24% fat, with the rest non fat.

Accordingly, the target body fat percentage range for a man's healthy body composition runs from about 14% to 17% body fat.

During your initial program phase, you will want to aim toward these ranges or slightly below them.

If you started the Your Best Body NOW Program while you were obese, you may have to repeat the initial program phase a few times in order to get into a range that is healthy for you.

The most important thing is that you know where you stand and get to work immediately on getting into a healthy range for yourself.

Also don't make the mistake of going to fast.

It's perfectly fine if it takes you several months or even a year or more to get there if you started out with a very high fat percentage.

Everyone's body is different and you will need to be patient with yours.

Lifetime health fitness is not a 100-yard dash, its a marathon.

You win the game by constantly tweaking and improving your overall well being little by little over a long period of time, never shocking the body with too much undue stress and/or change at one time.

As I talk about in the ebook , the skeletal part of your body composition is something that you cannot control.

The best thing to do to keep it strong is to eat a balanced diet that is rich in vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.

Your muscle and fat ARE parts of your composition that you can influence.

For best results, you will want to continue to manage and minimize your fat percentage until is either at or just below the healthy ranges mentioned above, and then tone and maintain your lean body mass to help burn additional fat, take some of the load off of how hard your bones have to work, and make you look great!

Make a lifetime habit of constantly monitoring and managing your overall body composition for optimum health.

Your body will LOVE you for it!