Posts Tagged ‘fitness’
Health & Lifestyle
An A-Z of fitness, health and nutrition terms that you may come across on this website:
Absolute Strength: The maximum amount a person can lift in one repetition.
Accommodating Resistance: Increasing resistance Nautilus machines are said to provide accommodating resistance.
Acquired Ageing: The acquisition of characteristics commonly associated with ageing but that are, in fact, caused by immobility or sedentary living.
Health & Fitness
Many people are under the impression that for exercise to be beneficial to our health it has to be strenuous exercise, in fact research has shown that exercise done in a mild to moderate form is actually more beneficial to our health.
In order to determine exactly how much exercise we actually need per week we have to be clear about what we actually want to achieve from our exercise routine, do you want to exercise for fitness or for a healthier you. This may sound confusing for often the terms are used to mean the same thing but they do have very different meanings.
Health & Fitness
Many of us at times feel we should do more to get fit and often we will go on an exercise crusade and rush into exercising like crazy for a few days only to get bored and give in again, but exercising this way can do you more harm than good.
A recent study was drawn over two years and tracked three million people who used a gym to workout, the study tracked how often the people used the gym and found that out of 70 fatal heart attacks that occurred during training or just after training over half of these were people who exercised less than once a week on a regular basis.
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 & Nutrition
Gaining weight in adulthood is a common thing but as long as we keep eating healthy and exercising this can be controlled and kept to a minimum, too much weight gain during middle age however increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease along with leaving us feeling lethargic.
Studies have shown that for every two pounds we gain the risk of developing diabetes over the next ten years rose by 20%. Not only does the risk of diseases such as these occurring but also too much weight gain can put a strain on the joints, the knees in particular.
Weight gain also increases the risk of several types of cancer including colon and breast cancer, a weight gain of more than 45 pounds during middle age can increase the risk of breast cancer in women by 20%.
Health & Fitness
If you’re thinking of attending a gym for the first time or have already made the effort and started attending you will probably have come away confused with the gym terminology used for your muscles and the different methods of training. Fear not here are some of the most commonly used terms in the gym explained in easy form: