Caffeine is defined as: a crystalline compound that is found especially in tea and coffee plants and is a stimulant of the central nervous system. The stimulazation of the nervous system can begin as early as fifteen minutes after ingestioin and can last up to six hours. In moderate consumption few negative side effects occurred. Moderate consumption of caffeine is up to 250 milligrams or about four twelve ounce cans of pop. Caffeine can increase blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, and blood sugar levels. In high consumption caffeine can lead to many negative side effects such as, dizziness, muscle tremor, nausea, and anxiety. During the week I consumed 24.77 milligrams of caffeine, this came from the Orange Fanta I was drinking during
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A sound fitness program needs to meet your personally goals, varied, consistent, appropriately overloads your body, and involves a warm up and cool down. First you need to define your own fitness goals because depending on why you want to exercise will determine what kind of fitness plan you need such as if you are training for a triathlealon or if you just want to work out to increase your stamina and energy levels. For my personal goals I want to increase flexibility and energy levels. The next thing to incorporate is variety, you do not want to get bored of your fitness route or you will stop doing it so you want to include a varied of activities both indoors and outdoors, alone and with friends, and on different days of the week. The next thing to include is to appropriately overload your body. You have to be careful with this there is a fine line in between appropriate and inappropriate overload. Inappropriate overload leads to exhaustion and injuries; while, appropriate overload will result in healthy improvements in fitness. The main two componates to this are intensity, time of activity, and frequency. Intensity refers to the amount of effort expended or how difficult each activity is. There are three different kinds of intensities: low, moderate, and vigorous. All three can be safely incorporated into fitness programs. Time of activity refers to the time spent doing each activity; depending on your level of fitness you are trying to achieve you can do short bursts of activities that add up to thirty minutes every day or thirty consecutive minutes for higher levels of activity. Frequency refers to how many times you do each activity per week; this will vary from person to person. The final thing to include is a warm up and a cool down this prevents injury, gets the muscles ready for exertion, helps prevent soreness in muscles
A sound fitness program needs to meet your personally goals, varied, consistent, appropriately overloads your body, and involves a warm up and cool down. First you need to define your own fitness goals because depending on why you want to exercise will determine what kind of fitness plan you need such as if you are training for a triathlealon or if you just want to work out to increase your stamina and energy levels. For my personal goals I want to increase flexibility and energy levels. The next thing to incorporate is variety, you do not want to get bored of your fitness route or you will stop doing it so you want to include a varied of activities both indoors and outdoors, alone and with friends, and on different days of the week. The next thing to include is to appropriately overload your body. You have to be careful with this there is a fine line in between appropriate and inappropriate overload. Inappropriate overload leads to exhaustion and injuries; while, appropriate overload will result in healthy improvements in fitness. The main two componates to this are intensity, time of activity, and frequency. Intensity refers to the amount of effort expended or how difficult each activity is. There are three different kinds of intensities: low, moderate, and vigorous. All three can be safely incorporated into fitness programs. Time of activity refers to the time spent doing each activity; depending on your level of fitness you are trying to achieve you can do short bursts of activities that add up to thirty minutes every day or thirty consecutive minutes for higher levels of activity. Frequency refers to how many times you do each activity per week; this will vary from person to person. The final thing to include is a warm up and a cool down this prevents injury, gets the muscles ready for exertion, helps prevent soreness in muscles