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FIVE
FITNESS PILLARS
If
you do not keep your mental and physical
energy at optimal levels, your body begins
to age prematurely and your ability to think,
be productive and carry through with your
goals crumbles. Fitness is, therefore, at
the core of your ability to manage the energy
required to reach your personal goals.
The
Core Challenge will help you restore and maintain
your optimal fitness level of energy based on
five Core Fitness Pillars:
1.
Core Hydration
2. Core Hygiene
3. Core Nutrition
4. Core Training
5. Core Energy
These five Core Fitness Pillars focus on the
core or "trunk" of your body because
that is where the foundation of fitness sits.
Internally, your spine, nervous system, and
vital organs such as the liver, kidneys, stomach
and intestines exist in the core. Externally,
the muscular tissue that holds your body together,
such as your obliques, abdominals and lower
back muscles, exist primarily in the core.
To
successfully train your core muscles, they should
be challenged in a variety of ways which include
relaxation, balance, flexibility and the integration
of circular movements (hip rotation). All of
these techniques are found in the Master Moves
system. Using circular movements, like dancing,
core training stimulates your internal organs
by the compression and elongation of your core
muscles.
Core
Hydration:
An estimated 75% of North Americans are chronically
dehydrated. Most do not even manage to consume the
minimum required eight glasses of water per day.
Water is your body's principal chemical component
comprising approximately 60% of your body weight.
Every system in your body depends on water. Water
flushes toxins out of vital organs and carries nutrients
to your cells.
Core
Hygiene:
Core Hygiene focuses on caring for your skin. All
part of your external body such as your hair, nails,
eyes, ears, genitals, teeth, and gums are extensions
of your skin. Your skin makes up 12% to 15% of your
total body weight. Your skin also offers a valuable
reflection of what is going on inside of your body.
One of the most effective ways of protecting ourselves
from illness is maintaining healthy skin. Skin provides
your first line of defense against the outside world.
So reducing the threat of bacteria that constantly
reside on the body will, in turn, reduce illness.
 Core
Nutrition:
What you eat, how you eat, and how much you eat
is essential for building your core muscles. Every
minute of your life, your body replaces more than
200 million dead cells. If you eat junk food, your
body in incapable of replacing the dead cells.
Core Nutrition is not a diet. Trendy and restrictive
diets interfere with good health and optimum weight,
which is better achieved through a regular good
eating plan such as Core Nutrition. Most conventional
dieting causes weight to be lost from muscle and
not fat; the result is an unbalanced lean muscle
to fat ratio and a weak, shapeless body. Core Nutrition
is the practice of eating natural foods to produce
optional levels of mental and physical energy.
Core Energy:
Core Energy is based on the integration of physical,
mental and spiritual energy. Many doctors are aware
that spiritual, mental and emotional factors play
a major role in illness and health but their training
has emphasized the physical and they often do not
know how to address spiritual or emotional energy.
Mental and spiritual energy resonates with life
experiences such as personal and professional relationships,
and becomes encoded in the cell tissue of your body.
Core
Exercise:
The energy of your body will not be free-flowing
if your physical body does not provide the foundation
to channel your energy. When movement originates
from your core muscles, pressure changes occur
in the core muscles that assist the circulation
of blood and lymphatic fluids throughout the body.
At the same time, the spinal column is realigned,
and your internal organs are massaged and placed
back into the ideal position. Your core is responsible
for flexing your body forward and sideways, rotating
it side-to-side, spine extension, as well as torso
and pelvic stabilization.
Additionally,
The
Core Challenge includes The Coins for Kindness
program for helping you feel good about
yourself and give back to your community. By
helping people achieve a healthier and happier
life, we are also helping the world become a
better place to live.
Since
1999 Master Moves has been tested and enhanced
to become the most effective and easiest Core
Training system for people of any age of body
type. As a result, we created a holistic fitness
system based on five fundamental pillars to sustain
health and fitness.
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