Posts Tagged ‘exercise’
Health & Fitness
Walk your way to a healthier you
Walking is one of the best all-round forms of exercise we can have, it is a way of keeping fit and losing weight that doesn’t cost anything but the rewards we can reap from it are endless. To lose weight we must burn off more calories than we eat and walking is one form of exercise that can help us to do this.
As a general guide a person weighing 60kg would burn off 150 calories if they were to walk at a brisk pace for a half hour. A heavier person would burn off more calories per half hour and a lighter one less calories.
Health & Fitness
All exercise is good for you and if done on a regular basis of at least 4 out of 7 days will lead to a healthier you, but exercise comes in many different forms from the simple everyday exercise we all get such as just walking, to more vigorous fitness routines such as an aerobics workout.
All forms of exercise use muscles and using our muscles on a regular basis can increase muscle size, strength and endurance, but not every form of exercise will have the same effect.
Health & Fitness
It doesn’t matter which fitness programme you start on the basics behind them are all the same. Every exercise or fitness programme relies on frequency, intensity and duration as the base and will include sets and repetitions.
Frequency
The frequency of your fitness regime relates to the amount of days you spend on your exercise routine, in order to maintain your current health or to become fitter you should exercise is some form or other at least five days out of the week.
Intensity
The intensity of exercise can be measured in many different ways from the scientific to the more simple; the easiest way for a person to measure the intensity of a workout routine themselves in a gym or at home is to wear a portable heart rate monitor.
Health, Fitness & Nutrition
What we eat and the amount of exercise we do all counts towards reducing the risk of heart disease and premature death, heart disease kills more people per year than any other illness so we should do all we can to help keep our heart in good working order.
Heart disease is a term that covers a range of conditions that affect the performance of the heart; the most common of these is ischemic heart disease, this happens when there is insufficient blood supply to the heart which is usually caused by fatty deposits building up in the vessels that supply the blood to the heart.