Cardiorespiratory fitness

your body performs for example getting stronger and faster • Looks – improving the way your body looks for example building muscle or losing weight It is also important to include the Components and Principles of Fitness when deciding and clarifying the aims The Components of Fitness are; • Heart Related 1. Muscular Strength - defined as the maximum amount of force that muscle can exert. 2. Flexibility - the range of movement in a joint. 3. Body Composition - the percentages of fat, bone,…

Hui, Chui, and Woo (2009) describe dance as a choreographed routine of movements usually performed to music. A world wide human activity, dance integrates the coordination of intentional body movements, performed in synchronization with rhythmical stimuli, usually together with other individuals (Murcia, Kreutz, Clift, & Bongard, 2010). Alpert (2011) contends that it is this direct expression of the use of body movements and expressions that makes dance the most fundamental of the arts. Dance…

Body Fitness Program By steve carve Nov 10, 2013 Body fitness is one of the most important essentials of our life. Someone has truly said that health is wealth. We can give our best only when we are at our best. A healthy body leads to healthy mind and soul. Before deciding workout your exercises you must keep in mind the aim of your workout, and result you want from your exercises. If you are striving for gaining weight then you must focus on some hard strength training and endurance training…

moderate intensity exercise each day. Those aged 65 and over are recommended to work up to 30 minutes each day at the level of their ability (provided they have their doctor’s clearance). We know the benefits of cardiovascular exercise, namely improved fitness, stamina and energy, but how about strength exercises? Strength training is beneficial for everyone, no matter where they are at physically. Benefits include improved posture, decreased joint pain, better balance, stronger…

The workouts provided to you in this program have given you all the tools necessary to pass the USSS Physical Fitness Test. It is incumbent upon you as the trainee to conduct both strength training and endurance based workouts to meet your goals. All trainees are encouraged to work out six days a week with one active rest day. An active rest day does not mean you sit in your room and do nothing. An active rest day is meant to be a light or easy day where you are still moving, but not at the…

Cross Training to Prevent Injuries and Enhance performance in runners Cross training is defined as two or more sports to improve performance, especially on an individual’s main sport. According to Elizabeth Quinn “Cross training is an excessive way to condition different muscle groups, mature new sets of skills, and also reduce boredom that creeps in after months of the same exercise routines.” Therefore cross training allow you to gain the ability to differ stress built on muscles and even…

Exercise, particularly endurance exercise, has salutary effects on brain health and cognitive function [27, 28, 29]. This upliftment in cognitive function with exercise has been most often appreciated in the aging community [30]. Exercise has also been reported to ameliorate outcomes in neurological diseases such as depression, epilepsy, stroke, AD, and Parkinson’s disease [31–36]. The beneficial effects of exercise on the brain are most discernible in the hippocampus and its dentate gyrus,…

performance.3,4 However, more recently studies have been comparing the two in regards to aerobic capacity and there is potentially more overlap that what was previously believed. Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) is a primary measurement of aerobic fitness which typically improves with TE. Mitochondrial density, skeletal muscle oxidative capacity, skeletal muscle metabolism, and skeletal muscle capillarisation are also factors that affect aerobic performance.1,5 However, SIT has typically been…

Ready to Race Running seems easy enough compared to other physical sports. All you need to do is grab a pair of sneaker and walk around moving your feet rapidly. But if you are to run in a marathon, it becomes a necessity to follow correct instructions for doing the best. Thus, in order to guide newbies who will be running the marathon in some time and are worried about the task ahead, Kanchi Maya Koju, the national athlete is here with some useful tips for your preparations. So before lacing up…

Bodybuilding Principles to Build MuscleThis page is dedicated to the bodybuilding principles that I follow and believe work for me. I do not believe that there is one cookie cutter routine out there that will work for everyone. I do believe that with a lot of trial and error and listening to your body, you can find what works best for you. Everyone is different and it just takes some experimenting. I don’t claim that what I do will work for every person out there, but I do think that these…