Fitness When you are fit, you are at a healthy body weight. You have energy. Exercise and a healthy diet are a regular part of your life. Fitness has four parts: * Heart and Lung Fitness. This is how well your heart pumps blood and sends oxygen through your body. * Muscle Fitness. This is […]
Fitness Burn calories while you clean. Who needs a gym when you can burn calories by doing household chores. The faster you move and the more you bend, stretch, and reach, the more your body will benefit. For example, a 150-lb person burns about 130 calories during a 30-minute 3.5 mph walk around the block
Fitness Tone, tighten & shrink your body with constant movement. You may never earn a spot on Dancing With the Stars, but you can get the same benefits they’ve been touting – tight, toned bodies and noticeable weight loss – simply by moving to your own groove or learning a new one. Be forever young.
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Fitness Your goals are about you and for you. Other people’s fitness goals should not interfere with ones you set for yourself. * Write down your goals. * Your goals need to be clear and measurable. In other words, will they be easy to identify and actually reach? Clearly defined goals are more readily achieved.
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Fitness You don’t have to join a gym to get fit. There are lots of ways you can break a sweat, shed pounds and improve your health. Small steps can make a big difference. * Do leg lifts before you get out of bed. * Walk the dog. Instead of slowing Fido down, pick up
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Fitness An exercise stress test measures the heart’s response to physical exertion and can give your doctor an idea of how safe it would be for you to exercise and at what intensity you can exercise with relative safety. If you undergo an exercise test, your doctor will ask you to either pedal a stationary
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Fitness Fitness activities that involve steady, rhythmic motions of major muscle groups and burn oxygen for more than a brief spurt are considered aerobic. They force your heart and lungs to work at anywhere from 60 to 85 percent of their capacity. Brisk walking and bicycling are examples of aerobic activities. So is aerobic dance-informally
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Fitness Add muscle-strengthening to your aerobic exercises to deliver even more health benefits, like protecting your joints, better balance and more restful sleep. Classes:Take a strength-training class at your local fitness center to learn the basics. Equipment:Use dumbbell or hand/ankle weights, resistance tubes, an exercise ball, and the weight of your own body. At-home gear:Use
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Fitness Exercise can do wonders to get rid of unwanted pounds and tone up flabby muscles. But it can’t turn a short, stocky person into a tall, willowy reed, or a slightly built person into a brawny bruiser. However, your body type may make you better suited to some activities than to others. Most people
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Fitness We all know exercise is good for us, but sometimes we need something more to get us up and moving. How about finding a cause that speaks deeply to you – breast cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, mental health, etc. There’s likely a fitness-related fundraiser in your area to benefit a worthy cause along with
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