The Spanimax Method - Introduction

The Spanimax Health Method is the base of the triangle. Overall health is a state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; something that is achieved through a combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being.
The Spanimax Health Method is concerned about natural means and mechanisms to help people carry out and attain a lifelong health program. It forms a square to represent the four essential principles of Knowledge, Power, Attitude and Network.

1. Knowledge as the starting point of all health-awareness: Knowledge leads to power. And in the pursue of your health goals, this power, when focused on learning all about nutrition, fitness and health, opens the gates to healthy living and a body and mind you can be totally proud of. Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: Perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning, so this process can't be accomplished properly without the other three following principles.
2. Power as the degree and depth of individual control over the environment and the self. The measure and the nature of influence you can achieve by developing this power must be based on knowledge and personal experience. This way you make sure that your power becomes a positive force for your own health endeavors and the collective world.
3. Attitude as the driving force of all achievement. A positive mental attitude will allow you to use the health knowledge you acquire in a powerful, effective manner. How you choose to think, inspired by your own awareness and a supportive network, will decide the end result of your lifestyle as a whole.
4. Network as support, feedback and consistent development force. It relates directly to social health. The theory of social support is recognized as an essential aspect of all achievement. It is associated with how networking helps people cope with stressful events, wrong lifestyle and damaging habits, enhancing psychological well-being, motivation and inspiration.

Health-related physical fitness consists of those components of physical fitness that have a relationship with good health. The components are commonly defined as body composition, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, muscular endurance, and strength. Many sources also cite mental and emotional health as an important part of overall fitness. This is often presented in textbooks as a triangle made up of three points, which represent physical, emotional, and mental fitness. Although The Spanimax Fitness Method is mostly related to physical fitness, its workings affects those other areas of overall fitness in connection with the Health Triangle. It includes three essential principles.

1. Variation (The What): A general-purpose physical fitness program must address the following essentials: Cardiovascular endurance, flexibility training, strength training, muscular stamina, body composition and general skill training. The knowledge of different exercise forms we must do to achieve our physical fitness intent, forms the substructure of the Spanimax Fitness Method.
2. Emphasis (The How): Provided with the knowledge of what to do, and the variations necessary to achieve the fitness essentials, the Emphasis Principle will teach how to plan your training and how you should do it in order to achieve your desired results.
3. Frequency (The When): Frequency deals directly with how often you are willing to get involved in any kind of physical activity. It is a crucial principle since so many people fail to exercise often enough, losing motivation and ultimately giving up. The key to a lifetime of fitness is consistency and this principle will arm you with the motivational tools to keep you going as you learn to discover your own fitness needs.