Mens FitnessMens fitness means to be truly fit to be able to live a full and healthy life. If you want to make the most of your life, fitness for men has to be a top priority in your daily routine. Does the following scenario describe you? Too much time spent at work and worrying about work related issues. Too many calories of fat and sugar saturated foods coupled with little or no daily exercise. Paying little heed to warning signs of the body. If so, you are far from alone. These lifestyle mistakes have brought many men to confront serious health problems like heart attack, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Overall, mens fitness can easily be improved with a better daily balance of work, rest, proper nutrition and exercise. If you find yourself becoming ill with low grade flu like symptoms that you just can't shake every time you snatch some down time, only to feel alright again when back at work, you may be suffering from a modern disorder that has been dubbed "leisure sickness". This means that you are constantly pushing body and mind to achieve work goals that are never ending. They pile up behind each other like the images in a bank of carnival mirrors.
Weekends, evenings and holidays ruined. This is a dangerous place to be in health wise and if this describes your situation, you are going to have to make some radical changes to take charge of your body and your failing health before your body gives up on you. It is extremely difficult to break the habit of an unbalanced lifestyle, but unless you do it, your future looks pretty grim. Well find the time - you have to devote only 1 hour a day and then the good things are going to happen for you, quicker than you realise once you get into the swing of it. You have to create a fitness habit as an integral part of your lifestyle. Mens fitness does not have to mean a lifetime spent lifting iron in the gym , (but of course it can). A balance of
cardio workouts
and strength routines each week will give you the body you want, whether you are looking to
gain muscle or just lose the love handles.
If you build muscle under your fat, you are going to be very disappointed in your appearance in the short to medium term. If you are a "hard gainer" and find it difficult to build muscle whatever you do, you may need a specific program designed for the hard gainer body type. If your main problem is that you are flabby and unfit, then first of all, get walking or cycling. Walking is easier because you can do it anywhere and anytime with your only real requirement a good pair of supportive walking shoes. Spend the money on purpose made shoes and you will not regret it. Walk briskly, do not just wander along. You should aim at around 5-7 km per hour to burn the fat effectively. Include a couple of hills or sets of stairs as you gain aerobic fitness. The fat will fall off you and your love handles will melt away. 
Once your body is free of much of its excess fat, you can build in strength training if you want to gain muscle. You may like to refer to my lose belly fat and ab workouts pages to get some solid mens fitness advice for this hard to train area of the body. Exercise works best with a nutritious diet that incorporates the right amount of foods for you, eaten at the right time of day. You should aim at eating 5-6 small meals a day, and cut back on the traditional big meal and desert at night. Eat most of your carbs (and they should be complex; breads, rice, grains, pasta) before the evening comes to maximise their energy giving properties. Avoid simple carbs as much as possible. Refined sugars and flours are just going to give you a "sugar fix" or energy spike that will make your body crash with an empty fuel tank a little later in the day.
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Your faithful body holds up and hangs in as long as you are working, but the minute you stop, your body caves in to sniffles and headaches and sore throats, every time again. 
