"You May be Fit but Are you Healthy?"

Key Note Speaker: DAVE O'BRIEN

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN:

he World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." To fully answer the question, then, you may chose to refine it to:

"What is the difference between Physical Health and Physical Fitness?"
Even within these parameters, Fitness is one component of Health. And in turn, Fitness has a number of components: "Fit for what?" Endurance, strength, and flexibility are three components of Fitness.

Generally, though, Fitness can be defined as the capacity to do effort, work or exercise. Physical Health might be defined as the resistance to illnesses; the capacity of your immune system, but even within the confines of Physical Health, it is not just "the absence of disease or infirmity"

To extend this to the original answer, health might be thought of as the ability of your body to recover from diseases like a cold, but it is so much more than that. Alternately, fitness might be seen as your ability to recover from doing strenuous exercise (the quicker your heart rate gets back to normal, the fitter you are), but it, too, is much more than that. Fitness is one aspect of Health, generally mediated through the fitness of your heart and circulatory system, lungs, and muscles. So, you can be fit but not healthy AND you can be healthy but not fit.

How would you like to be both?

WHO IS DAVE O'BRIEN

Dave O’Brien, endurance athlete, International speaker on health is the oldest man, and one of only 30 people to complete the 4 Deserts- Racing the Planet.  He is an extraordinary person with a unique perspective on exercise, nutrition and health. Empowering people to take more ownership and responsibility of their health and that of their families.

A Story about real life, extreme challenges and life beyond the comfort zone

-  The Desert Runner’s Movie - 
Imagine you’ve been dropped off in the middle of one of the largest, driest deserts in the World. Over the next six days you will have to run, jog, walk or crawl 155 miles through the incessant heat (up to 50 degrees centigrade), across soft sand and hard-packed gravel, over sand dunes multiple stories high and down razor-sharp rocky cliffs. You must do this carrying everything you need to survive — clothes, food, sunscreen, emergency medical supplies, sleeping bag — in a 20-pound pack on your back.

Now imagine doing this not just once, but four times in one calendar year, through the four most treacherous deserts in the world: the Atacama Desert in  Chile, the Gobi Desert in China, the Sahara in Egypt… and then, the final stage, a 150-mile footrace across the single most inhospitable landscape in the world: Antarctica. The race organisers have strategically chosen these four deserts because they are (respectively) the driest, windiest, hottest and coldest places on Earth.

Any single race in RacingThePlanet’s 4Desert Ultramarathon Series is an extraordinary, life-threatening challenge– something we would only expect the most accomplished, elite athletes on the planet to try. But most of the courageous men and women who come from all over the world to compete in these Herculean events are not professional athletes at all, they’re ordinary people—people with families and day jobs and mortgage payments– people like you and me who have decided, for a variety of personal reasons, to take on this extreme physical challenge.

Why do they do it? Are they crazy? Perhaps…
Dave O’Brien, the oldest man at 56, and only Irish man to complete this superhuman feat is an extraordinary person with a unique perspective on exercise, nutrition and health. Learn what he has to share with us based on his remarkable career

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

- people who are interested in fitness and health

- peope who are interested in Ultra running, endurance racing and running in general

- active people or athletes who know how exercising can add additional stress on the body

- athletes who want to avoid injury and be in optimal health to partake in their chose sport or activity

- people who just do not get their 5-7 portions of fruit & vegetables every day

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST:

- this event is FREE but you must register as places are limited.

- this event is sponsored by Juiceplus- you will not be asked to buy or join anything.