Importance of Physical Fitness

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Importance of Physical Fitness
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Overview
Physical fitness, wellness, or health plays a pivotal role in a person’s life. It reduces the risks of
developing diseases such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and coronary diseases. Physical wellness has
both acute and chronic health benefits. Notably, physical activity involving regular activity
improves a person’s quality of life. Studies show that a minimum of 45 minutes a day helps a
person enjoy these benefits. The rationale of this essay is to analyze the importance of physical
fitness among individuals. Three-peer reviewed journal articles are examined.
1. Physical Fitness of Police Academy Cadets by Crawley. A Sherman, Crawley. R, and
Cosio-Lima: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4854178/
Crawley et al., (2016), asserts that tactical athletes, including police officers, firefighters, and
military require agility, speed, strength as well as endurance training for their job’s physical
operation. Officers particularly those of law enforcement need to make swift adaptations from
passive functions to harsh media where exertion of body is critical. The work of a Law
enforcement personnel is mostly inactive, however, they recognize that physical wellness is a
crucial factor of being equipped to execute infrequent and vital duties, such as providing self-
defense, pursuing armed criminals, controlling those resisting arrests, handcuffing, etc. (Crawley
et al., 2016). The manner in which a law enforcement officer executes different physical duties
may dictate his/ her professional effectiveness. Police must have a physical training program to
boost their muscular strength and endurance, aerobic capacity and anaerobic power, flexibility,
as well as ideal body composition. For effectiveness, overload and specificity— overload
principles— need address.

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According to Crawley et al., (2016), 68 cadet officers were subjected to research first to establish
baseline pre-academy physical wellness data of the officers and to investigate how a supervised
16-week physical wellness program would affect the academy cadets. Some of the procedures
the officers did include physical fitness training done at the first, eight, and week sixteen of the
officer's academy. In skinfold’s sum, measurements were from officers wearing shorts and a
sports top. Other procures were handgrip strength test, agility-T test, sprint speed, sit and reach
flexibility, upper as well as lower-body power tests, etc. The article concludes that all law
enforcement personnel must perform highly physical as well as engaging mental plans including
reacting to stress instinctively, making right decisions in critical moments and shooting under
duress (Crawley et al., 2016). Besides, appropriate physical training should produce a person that
can successfully operate in a stressful environment and have proper physical wellness or fitness
to well in such media.
2. Cardiovascular Role Of Group Sports Interventions: The Need For Improved Fitness In
Risk Reduction by Jari Laukkanen:
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)30669-4/abstract
Laukkanen in his article Cardiovascular Benefits of Group Sports Interventions, implementation
of sports groups can prevent coronary diseases events. Both soccer and running can also improve
cardiorespiratory fitness as well as coronary function. The author also demonstrates that previous
researches have endorsed aerobic training as a way to boost lipid profile as well as lower blood
pressure and body mass index. Moreover, he acknowledges that high-intensity interval training is
a way to promote fitness plus coronary risk factor profile. As per Laukkanen (2018), current
evidence indicates that high-intensity training may boost maximum oxygen uptake as well as
raise cardiometabolic risk factors such as lipids levels and blood pressure. Physical wellness