Besides the obvious points like reduced body fat and ideal body type there is a plethora of health reasons why it is important to be fit. By reducing the fat that your body carries you are helping your heart to work more efficiently. think of your body as a car and your heart the engine. now imagine you filled up the inside of your car with bricks and added a trailer, you also haven't changed any of the fluids for years and you need to get up over a long steep hill. Do you think the car will make it? who knows maybe the engine blows?. But if you think about that in terms of your body and you don't make it, that's heart failure. That's quite a bit more serious than a blown engine. people spend thousands of dollars on their cars but never take the time to do upkeep on themselves. If you go too long without doing maintenance on your body you are more at risk to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and heart failure.
If you think of your health in terms of a continuum, at the bottom is death closely followed by sickness, in the middle would be wellness and at the top end would be fitness. if you plot a point on that line where your fitness is the space between where you are and sickness or death is time. The more fit you are the more time you have before a health problem can become life threatening. do yourself a huge favour and spend some time and money on yourself , get in the gym for a little tuneup and find a nutritionist to help you re calibrate.
