There are five components to a well-rounded fitness routine, and they are as follows: 1) cardiovascular fitness, 2) muscular strength, 3) muscular endurance, 4) flexibility, and 5) coordination. Within the category of coordination there is an innate need for balance. If one does not possess a certain amount of balance, then the capacity to be fluid and move through daily physical functions is nearly impossible. However, the human body is quite intelligent, and though this may be happening on an unconscious level, we will change how we maneuver so as to continue functioning, but in a way that no longer requires us to balance. For example, pulling on your slacks in the morning. For years we would simply stand in front of our drawer or closet, select our pants, and balance on one leg while we slipped our foot down the pant leg, and then repeated the same balancing act for the other side. Most of us now sit down on a chair or the side of the bed to put our pants on. Why? I will venture a guess that over the years we have lost our capacity to balance long enough on one leg to manage that maneuver. It may not be a big deal, but it?s those little accommodations that we have made over time that have allowed us to become less and less balanced.
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