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Exercise
is defined as the performance of some activity in order
to develop or maintain physical fitness and overall health.
It is often directed toward also honing athletic ability
or skill. Frequent and regular physical exercise is an important
component in the prevention of some of the diseases of affluence
such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes
and obesity.
Exercises are generally grouped into three types depending
on the overall effect they have on the human body: |
- Flexibility
exercises such as stretching improve the range
of motion of muscles and joints.
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Aerobic exercises
such as walking and running focus on increasing cardiovascular
endurance.
- Anaerobic
exercises such as weight training, functional
training or sprinting increase short-term muscle strength.
Physical
exercise is considered important for maintaining physical
fitness including healthy weight; building and maintaining
healthy bones, muscles, and joints; promoting physiological
well-being; reducing surgical.
Proper nutrition is at least as important to health as
exercise. When exercising it becomes even more important
to have good diet to ensure the body has the correct ratio
of macronutrients whilst providing ample micronutrients,
this is to aid the body with the recovery process following
strenuous exercise.
Proper rest and recovery is also as important to health
as exercise, otherwise the body exists in a permanently
injured state and will not improve or adapt adequately
to the exercise. Hence, it is important to remember not
to do the same type of exercise two days in a row.
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| Exercise
benefits |
Frequent
and regular aerobic exercise has been shown to help prevent
or treat serious and life-threatening chronic conditions
such as high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease, Type
2 diabetes, insomnia, and depression.
Strength training appears to have continuous energy-burning
effects that persist for about 24 hours after the training,
though they do not offer the same cardio vascular benefits
of aerobic exercises. Exercise can also increase energy
and raise one's threshold for pain.
Both aerobic and anaerobic exercise also work to increase
the mechanical efficiency of the heart by increasing cardiac
volume (aerobic exercise), or myocardial thickness (strength
training, see Organ hypertrophy).
Source: Wikipedia
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