page_title: Physical fitness
hierarchical_section_title: Physical fitness
caption_attribution_description: English: Rich Froning strategically walks backward into the water while wearing swimming fins during the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games at Camp Pendleton’s San Onofre Beach, July 12. CrossFit athletes competed in a true test of fitness that included swimming 700-meters in the Pacific Ocean, biking 6-miles through grueling terrain, running up more than 1400 vertical feet and ending the day’s events by maneuvering their way though a Marine Corps Obstacle Course.
context_page_description: Physical fitness is a state of health and well-being and, more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of sports, occupations and daily activities. Physical fitness is generally achieved through proper nutrition, moderate-vigorous physical exercise, and sufficient rest.
  Before the industrial revolution, fitness was defined as the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However, with automation and changes in lifestyles physical fitness is now considered a measure of the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases, and to meet emergency situations.
context_section_description: Physical fitness is a state of health and well-being and, more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of sports,  occupations and daily activities. Physical fitness is generally achieved through proper nutrition, moderate-vigorous physical exercise, and sufficient rest.
  Before the industrial revolution, fitness was defined as the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However, with automation and changes in lifestyles physical fitness is now considered a measure of the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases, and to meet emergency situations.
caption: Physical fitness is generally achieved through exercise. Photo shows Rich Froning Jr. – four-time winner of "Fittest Man on Earth" title.
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