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Physical Fitness
Physical Fitness (Exercise)
Physical fitness is a combination of qualities that enable a person to perform well in vigorous physical activity, and strength. Physical fitness and good health are not the same, though each influences the other. Healthy people may be physically unfit because they do not exercise regularly. Physically fit people perform their usual tasks easily without tiring.
Better physical performance is only one benefit of physical fitness. Regular vigorous exercise also increases the efficiency and capacity of the heart and lungs and helps people maintain their proper weight. Individuals who are physically fit tend to be slimmer than those who are unfit. They have greater resistance to disease and recover faster if they do become ill. Physically fit people may be happier and more alert and relaxed. They also may be able to resist the effects of aging better than those who are physically unfit.
Principles Of Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is a personal responsibility. Few individuals other than athletes and military personnel are actually required to participate in organized fitness programmes. Most people are physically unfit simply because they do not get enough exercise. Many do not take the time to exercise, and others try to stay fit with only light, infrequent activity.
A person’s physical fitness is determined by such factors as age, heredity, and behavior. Although people cannot control their age or heredity, their behavior can help them become physically fit and stay that way. Individuals vary greatly in their capacity for physical fitness but almost anyone can improve by exercising regularly.
The years between adolescence and middle age are the peak period for physical fitness. However, people of the peak period for physical fitness. However, people of all ages can stay fit with good health habits and regular exercise. Any person more than 35 years old, and anyone with a health problem, should consult a doctor before beginning a fitness programme.
Health habits that aid physical fitness include getting enough sleep, eating properly, receiving regular medical and dental care, and maintaining personal cleanliness. Health can be harmed by overeating and eating the wrong kinds of foods; smoking ; and drug abuse, including excessive use of alcohol. Harmful health habits can undo the results of regular exercise.
A person’s level of physical fitness depends largely on how frequently and intensely he or she exercises. Most health experts agree that people should exercise at least three times a week to maintain desirable fitness. Improvement occurs faster with more frequent workouts.
Physical fitness experts recommend a 30 minute workout of continuous exercise. The exercise need not be difficult or strenuous. However, as a person’s condition improves, he or she should increase the number of times each activity is performed. Every workout should include three basic types of exercise:
Flexibility exercise,
Endurance exercise, and
Strength exercises
Flexibility exercises, such as bending, turning, and twisting movements, stretch the connective tissues and move the joints through a wide range of motions. These exercises cut the risk of injury from strenuous exercise and reduce muscle soreness. They should be performed before and after each workout.
Endurance exercises include cycling, running, and swimming. These activities, also call aerobic exercises, raise the rate of heartbeat and breathing and strengthen the circulatory and respiratory systems.
Strength exercises include pull-ups, pushups, situps, and exercises with weights. They strengthen the arms and shoulders and other muscular parts of the body.
Physical Fitness Programmes
School Programmes help children develop good physical fitness habits. Fitness during childhood influences fitness as an adult. By the time most people reach adulthood, their fitness habits have been firmly established.
It has been recommended that all primary and secondary schools should provide a daily exercise period of at least 20 minutes. This period should include vigorous activities designed to develop agility, endurance, flexibility, ad strength.
An effective school programme should offer regular health examinations, courses in health care, and performance tests to measure students’ progress in physical fitness. Such a programme also provides instruction in running, throwing, and other skills, and special programmes for handicapped and retarded students.
Physical fitness programmes should teach the younger children simple exercises and progress to more complicated ones as the children mature. Older pupils can participate in such activities as gymnastics, swimming, and dual and team sports. Secondary school programmes should include intramural sports, which involve competition among students of the same school and interscholastic sports, in which schools compete against one another.
Community programmes contribute to the physical fitness of the people by increasing the opportunities for exercise. A community needs leadership, adequate facilities, and good organization to develop successful fitness programmes. These programmes should meet the needs of residents with different interests and skills.
In many communities, schools become recreation and fitness centre during evenings and weekends and on days when the regular classes are not held. Schools can offer sports equipment and such facilities as gyms, playing fields, running tracks, and swimming pools. Some communities have special paths for cycling and jogging.
Many business companies, labour and service organizations, churches, private clubs, and park and recreation agencies provide facilities and instructors for community programmes. A number of firms have fitness programmes for their own employees.
The World Book
Encyclopedia
Physical fitness is a combination of qualities that enable a person to perform well in vigorous physical activity, and strength. Physical fitness and good health are not the same, though each influences the other. Healthy people may be physically unfit because they do not exercise regularly. Physically fit people perform their usual tasks easily without tiring.
Better physical performance is only one benefit of physical fitness. Regular vigorous exercise also increases the efficiency and capacity of the heart and lungs and helps people maintain their proper weight. Individuals who are physically fit tend to be slimmer than those who are unfit. They have greater resistance to disease and recover faster if they do become ill. Physically fit people may be happier and more alert and relaxed. They also may be able to resist the effects of aging better than those who are physically unfit.
Principles Of Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is a personal responsibility. Few individuals other than athletes and military personnel are actually required to participate in organized fitness programmes. Most people are physically unfit simply because they do not get enough exercise. Many do not take the time to exercise, and others try to stay fit with only light, infrequent activity.
A person’s physical fitness is determined by such factors as age, heredity, and behavior. Although people cannot control their age or heredity, their behavior can help them become physically fit and stay that way. Individuals vary greatly in their capacity for physical fitness but almost anyone can improve by exercising regularly.
The years between adolescence and middle age are the peak period for physical fitness. However, people of the peak period for physical fitness. However, people of all ages can stay fit with good health habits and regular exercise. Any person more than 35 years old, and anyone with a health problem, should consult a doctor before beginning a fitness programme.
Health habits that aid physical fitness include getting enough sleep, eating properly, receiving regular medical and dental care, and maintaining personal cleanliness. Health can be harmed by overeating and eating the wrong kinds of foods; smoking ; and drug abuse, including excessive use of alcohol. Harmful health habits can undo the results of regular exercise.
A person’s level of physical fitness depends largely on how frequently and intensely he or she exercises. Most health experts agree that people should exercise at least three times a week to maintain desirable fitness. Improvement occurs faster with more frequent workouts.
Physical fitness experts recommend a 30 minute workout of continuous exercise. The exercise need not be difficult or strenuous. However, as a person’s condition improves, he or she should increase the number of times each activity is performed. Every workout should include three basic types of exercise:
Flexibility exercise,
Endurance exercise, and
Strength exercises
Flexibility exercises, such as bending, turning, and twisting movements, stretch the connective tissues and move the joints through a wide range of motions. These exercises cut the risk of injury from strenuous exercise and reduce muscle soreness. They should be performed before and after each workout.
Endurance exercises include cycling, running, and swimming. These activities, also call aerobic exercises, raise the rate of heartbeat and breathing and strengthen the circulatory and respiratory systems.
Strength exercises include pull-ups, pushups, situps, and exercises with weights. They strengthen the arms and shoulders and other muscular parts of the body.
Physical Fitness Programmes
School Programmes help children develop good physical fitness habits. Fitness during childhood influences fitness as an adult. By the time most people reach adulthood, their fitness habits have been firmly established.
It has been recommended that all primary and secondary schools should provide a daily exercise period of at least 20 minutes. This period should include vigorous activities designed to develop agility, endurance, flexibility, ad strength.
An effective school programme should offer regular health examinations, courses in health care, and performance tests to measure students’ progress in physical fitness. Such a programme also provides instruction in running, throwing, and other skills, and special programmes for handicapped and retarded students.
Physical fitness programmes should teach the younger children simple exercises and progress to more complicated ones as the children mature. Older pupils can participate in such activities as gymnastics, swimming, and dual and team sports. Secondary school programmes should include intramural sports, which involve competition among students of the same school and interscholastic sports, in which schools compete against one another.
Community programmes contribute to the physical fitness of the people by increasing the opportunities for exercise. A community needs leadership, adequate facilities, and good organization to develop successful fitness programmes. These programmes should meet the needs of residents with different interests and skills.
In many communities, schools become recreation and fitness centre during evenings and weekends and on days when the regular classes are not held. Schools can offer sports equipment and such facilities as gyms, playing fields, running tracks, and swimming pools. Some communities have special paths for cycling and jogging.
Many business companies, labour and service organizations, churches, private clubs, and park and recreation agencies provide facilities and instructors for community programmes. A number of firms have fitness programmes for their own employees.
The World Book
Encyclopedia
Wednesday 4 April 2012
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What are the immediate benefits of exercise?
What are the long-term benefits of exercise?
The long-range positive expectations for maintaining a regular program of exercise are equally important.
Less heart disease. Studies show that a person who exercises has less chance of a heart attack. Exercise appears to increase the high-density lipoproteins (HDL) in the bloodstream and HDL seems to protect the body from hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis).
Dr. Kenneth Cooper says that a half hour of running or brisk walking three times a week is enough to decrease by about 50 percent the average person’s chance of dying from heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other chief causes of death. An interesting aspect of this is that women may benefit from exercise even more than men, because exercise helps them increase bone density and prevent osteoporosis.
Less hypertension. People who exercise generally find that their blood pressure decreases. Lower blood pressure is associated with decreased chance of stroke or heart attack.
A study reported in Circulation (83:1557, May, 1991) showed that a single exercise session significantly lowered mild hypertension in the men who were studied. On the average, blood pressure was lowered for thirteen hours after just one exercise session.
Less diabetes. “Increased physical activity is effective in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and the protective benefit is especially pronounced in persons at the highest risk for the disease,” Journal of Medicine (Dr. Helmrich and colleagues, 325: 147-52, 1991). The study showed that a person who exercises has less chance of developing diabetes. Because diabetes increases the risk of stroke, heart attack, and blood vessel disease, it is exciting to know that exercise can decrease the chance of developing diabetes.
Fewer accidents in later life. Studies have shown that older women suffer fractures from falls for two reasons. They cannot see well, and they are in poor physical condition. The first can usually be treated by an ophthalmologist, but the second must be taken care of by the person herself before she gets so “out of shape” that she can no longer exercise and then falls and breaks her bones.
Increased chance of independence and good health in later life. Women who exercise often can continue to be active and healthy as they grow older. It is true that some people seem to inherit “healthy genes,” but you cannot count on that in your own particular situation. You have to assume that you will grow old and debilitated unless you take care of yourself now.
Less pain from job-related demands. Many working Americans develop back, neck, and eye pain that has been assumed to be job-related. Denise Austin, a Loss Angeles-based exercise specialist, however, has discovered that most of these pains are due to lack of exercise rather than to any of the machines that people use in their workday. She has found that by working some easy-to-do exercises into the daily work schedule many of the problems employees develop either disappear or are prevented. Some of these problems are stress-related, and others are due to the position assumed in front of computers, word processors, and typewriters. In spite of the, however, exercise helps.
Less pain from everyday life. Lack of exercise leads to pain with everyday activities. Without exercise, our bodies are much like hot house plants. Away from the storms of life, the plants develop no resistance and strength. Because there has been no wind to make the stem pliable and sturdy, the least little bump will break them. In the same way, without exercise our ligaments and muscles get weak.
Accustomed to daily, routine activities, we function without pain in the realm, unusual activity, though, such as lifting a heavy suitcase or moving a couch may pull a muscle or tear a ligament. When this happens, it’s easy to stop doing even that much physical activity and to think, “I’m getting too old to do that.” This can be a dangerous downward progression of our bodies. It’s not that we’re too old, it’s that we have let our muscles and ligaments get weak, like those hothouse plants. Such occurrences should make us realize that regular exercise must be an important part of our daily lives so that we can do not only the things we need to daily but also the special things we want to do in the future. Our bodies do not have to “grind down into inactivity” in old age. We have the chance now to keep them strong and capable of doing the physical things we want to do.
Copy typed by Shirley-Ann Pearman
An excerpt from pages 816-818 (1240) of “1250 Health-Care Questions Women Ask With Straightforward Answers by an Obstetrician/Gynecologist” (by Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., M.D. with Susan Nethery)
Tuesday 8 November 2011
What are the long-term benefits of exercise?
What are the long-term benefits of exercise?
The long-range positive expectations for maintaining a regular program of exercise are equally important.
Less heart disease. Studies show that a person who exercises has less chance of a heart attack. Exercise appears to increase the high-density lipoproteins (HDL) in the bloodstream and HDL seems to protect the body from hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis).
Dr. Kenneth Cooper says that a half hour of running or brisk walking three times a week is enough to decrease by about 50 percent the average person’s chance of dying from heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other chief causes of death. An interesting aspect of this is that women may benefit from exercise even more than men, because exercise helps them increase bone density and prevent osteoporosis.
Less hypertension. People who exercise generally find that their blood pressure decreases. Lower blood pressure is associated with decreased chance of stroke or heart attack.
A study reported in Circulation (83:1557, May, 1991) showed that a single exercise session significantly lowered mild hypertension in the men who were studied. On the average, blood pressure was lowered for thirteen hours after just one exercise session.
Less diabetes. “Increased physical activity is effective in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and the protective benefit is especially pronounced in persons at the highest risk for the disease,” Journal of Medicine (Dr. Helmrich and colleagues, 325: 147-52, 1991). The study showed that a person who exercises has less chance of developing diabetes. Because diabetes increases the risk of stroke, heart attack, and blood vessel disease, it is exciting to know that exercise can decrease the chance of developing diabetes.
Fewer accidents in later life. Studies have shown that older women suffer fractures from falls for two reasons. They cannot see well, and they are in poor physical condition. The first can usually be treated by an ophthalmologist, but the second must be taken care of by the person herself before she gets so “out of shape” that she can no longer exercise and then falls and breaks her bones.
Increased chance of independence and good health in later life. Women who exercise often can continue to be active and healthy as they grow older. It is true that some people seem to inherit “healthy genes,” but you cannot count on that in your own particular situation. You have to assume that you will grow old and debilitated unless you take care of yourself now.
Less pain from job-related demands. Many working Americans develop back, neck, and eye pain that has been assumed to be job-related. Denise Austin, a Loss Angeles-based exercise specialist, however, has discovered that most of these pains are due to lack of exercise rather than to any of the machines that people use in their workday. She has found that by working some easy-to-do exercises into the daily work schedule many of the problems employees develop either disappear or are prevented. Some of these problems are stress-related, and others are due to the position assumed in front of computers, word processors, and typewriters. In spite of the, however, exercise helps.
Less pain from everyday life. Lack of exercise leads to pain with everyday activities. Without exercise, our bodies are much like hot house plants. Away from the storms of life, the plants develop no resistance and strength. Because there has been no wind to make the stem pliable and sturdy, the least little bump will break them. In the same way, without exercise our ligaments and muscles get weak.
Accustomed to daily, routine activities, we function without pain in the realm, unusual activity, though, such as lifting a heavy suitcase or moving a couch may pull a muscle or tear a ligament. When this happens, it’s easy to stop doing even that much physical activity and to think, “I’m getting too old to do that.” This can be a dangerous downward progression of our bodies. It’s not that we’re too old, it’s that we have let our muscles and ligaments get weak, like those hothouse plants. Such occurrences should make us realize that regular exercise must be an important part of our daily lives so that we can do not only the things we need to daily but also the special things we want to do in the future. Our bodies do not have to “grind down into inactivity” in old age. We have the chance now to keep them strong and capable of doing the physical things we want to do.
Copy typed by Shirley-Ann Pearman
An excerpt from pages 816-818 (1240) of “1250 Health-Care Questions Women Ask With Straightforward Answers by an Obstetrician/Gynecologist” (by Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., M.D. with Susan Nethery)
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