While Webster's Dictionary offers virtually no distinction between the terms, the exercise industry does. Experts have been in agreement for some time that although health and fitness certainly share many components, they really are different.
Fitness is measured from a performance standpoint with various physical feats.
Health, on the other hand, is measured by cholesterol levels, blood pressure readings, and the presence of disease. As a dance fitness program, the goal of Jazzercise is to impact a person's fitness level. Our program is designed to improve cardiovascular and respiratory efficiency, enhance muscular strength and flexibility, and impact fat loss. The Center for Disease Control acknowledges inactivity as a major risk factor for heart disease by recommending that every adult needs to be physically active a minimum of 30 minutes each day. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at 102 sedentary women who walked three miles per day, five days per week for 24 weeks.