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MIND OVER MUSCLE

MENTAL HEALTH VS MENTAL FITNESS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The first definition of Mental Fitness was built through an analogy of physical fitness where it is something you build through training, and is seen as “your ability to cope with and meet the psychological demands of life, without undue fatigue or damage to your mind or body.” If mental health is your “state” of wellbeing, then mental fitness is the environment and the set of behaviors within which you cultivate it.

THE FOUR PILLARS

Just as there are four different components to physical fitness — cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition —

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