Total sustained fitness is a product of education, nutrition, and optimal movement. Continual education helps sustain total fitness during difficult times, nutrition is the most critical and most difficult aspect of fitness. Understanding and practicing good nutrition is a must to becoming totally fit, and finally optimizing movement burns the calories, lubricates the joints, burns fat, and builds muscle to build and sustain total fitness. All these components act as a system to develop and maintain total fitness. People fail to become fit because they lack a strategy or plan. Businesses fail without plans. People fail to lose weight, grow muscle, develop endurance and flexibility because they lack a plan. Building a Strategy for Fitness educates you on how to get started and remain in control of developing your fitness and health.