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salt when preparing or eating your meals. 3. Exercise Regularly An active lifestyle is vital for a healthy heart and there is something for every ability: • Walk briskly for 30 minutes a day and reduce your risk of heart attack by one-third. • Cycling is good aerobic exercise and can be a method of getting around. • Swimming improves heart and lung capacity, but is gentle on your joints and so ideal for those with more limited mobility. • Stretching exercises and Yoga are good if you are not…

Many obese or overweight individuals are bullied everyday for their size, destroying their self-esteem. People negatively perceive these individuals to be lazy, unhealthy, and undetermined. What people do not realize is that there are many assumptions that they make which are not true. For instance, if someone is overweight, that means there is an extreme risk for premature death. However, research has found that these people tend to live just as long, or even longer than people with normal…

240i Precor stretch machine is for a laboratory based test which is performed under controlled conditions indoors and the sit and reach test is a field based tests though it can be performed indoors too. When testing the validity of the sit and reach test it is hard to be accurate with the results because other factors such as the measurement or the individual’s arm length can play a vital role when it comes to the validity. If the performer isn’t able to get the same results when performing the…

Did you know that retired Ironman triathlete Peter Reid now flies seaplanes for a living? If you’re a plane enthusiast who desires to fly a real plane in the future, you might want to consider pursuing triathlon as a hobby first before you make the giant leap. Why? It’s because pilots and athletes share the same “adventure factor,” and several athletes routinely fly. For example, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth all work the cockpit in the Nextel Cup circuit. But since triatheletes…

Drug abuse amongst athletes dates back to ancient time, there are different layers of drug abuse amongst athletes. Based on my findings in the Ancient Greek Olympics eating mushrooms and drinking a wine/brandy concoction altered your consciousness and enhanced your performance, this was one of the first methods of doping in ancient times. Even back then doping was known to be unethical and identified cheaters were sold into slavery, athletes are now being drug tested to make sure there are no…

The two group were matched for age, BMI, as well as fitness level measured by their peak oxygen consumption (VO2 peak). 48 hours later they returned to participate in the main experiment. After an intense session of cycling or rest, the subjects practised a visuomotor tracking task which consisted of matching as accurately as possible a double sine wave curve on a monitor using a remote control handle with sensors. Acquisition of the motor task was assessed during the…

minutes of High intensity interval training three times a week burns body fat, boost metabolism, improve endurance and speed along with cardiovascular health. Different forms of exercise, such as, running, walking, swimming, strength training and cycling could translate into interval training. The rule for intervals involves repeatedly exercising at a high intensity pace for 30 to 60 seconds to several minutes, separated by 1 to 5 minutes of recovery which would be a low intensity pace. During…

I chose to read An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison. Before taking this class, I only knew a few things about bipolar disorder. Most of what I had learned about bipolar had come from Google searches in wondering if I too suffered from the disorder because of it being prevalent within my family on my absent father’s side. What I learned from Google was that bipolar is a disorder that can cause people to have mood swings, there were two different types of bipolar…

It’s a typical Sunday night. My roommates and I are sitting in the common room awaiting the new Kardashian episode. I sit, engaged and listening to the conversation around me. We speak about our day, our classes, what we ate, if we worked out. All of our statements, I realize, are brought back to ourselves, and are followed by a put down. “I’m so hungry, but I ate so much today. I can’t eat anymore.” Or “How is she (a female on TV) so skinny? Why can’t I look like that?” Followed by “she is…

Girls who identify with heroines try to emulate heroines’ sexuality; this imitation could cause an unhealthy self-esteem because girls will worth their sexuality more than anything else. Unfortunately, comics did not want heroines to look masculine; instead, they wanted heroines to use their sexuality and bodies as a form of power against villains. According to Gilroy, she states, “[Batgirl] also makes clear that her superheroic sexuality, like all other aspects of her identity, is a performance…