{"id":296656,"date":"2010-02-09T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/being-thin-doesnt-always-equal-being-fit\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:25:00","slug":"being-thin-doesnt-always-equal-being-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/296656","title":{"rendered":"Being Thin Doesn&#8217;t Always Equal Being Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/02\/thinner.jpg\" \/>If you&#8217;ve ever lost weight in the course of a regular exercise program or playing sports, you know how much easier it becomes to run down a court or bend into downward dog or even walk to the corner store as you shed those pounds. So does that mean that the thinner you are, the fitter you can be? <\/p>\n<p>For runners, it&#8217;s been said that a one percent reduction in weight leads to a one percent increase in performance. But it turns out it&#8217;s not so simple. Over at <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The New York Times<\/span>, Gina Kolata tackles this topic (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/fashion\/04best.html\">Slimmer Doesn&#8217;t Always Mean Fitter<\/a>). So how do you know when you&#8217;re at the right weight for optimal fitness performance? And when does thinness start interfering with fitness?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/being-thin-doesnt-always-equal-being-fit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Being Thin Doesn&#8217;t Always Equal Being Fit<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/being-thin-doesnt-always-equal-being-fit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19348183\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/being-thin-doesnt-always-equal-being-fit\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Health, Fitness If you&#8217;ve ever lost weight in the course of a regular exercise program or playing sports, you know how much easier it becomes to run down a court or bend into downward dog or even walk to the corner store as you shed those pounds. So does that mean that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}