Fitness
Most of us know the benefits of fitness, but choose not to participate. We eat to much fast food and do little exercise. Unfortunately, our well being is dependent on fitness and good diet. Benefits include slowing the aging process, better blood flow and hearth strengthening.
Regular exercise decrease changes of overweight children and adults. Children spend too much time indoors with video games, TV, computers, and cell phones. Check online articles for help in setting exercise routines for you and your children.
Fitness should be a daily activity. All you have do is get started after you make the decision. This should not be wishful thinking. It should be a life changing event.
Strength Training Basics
Strength training strengthens the skeletal muscles. It is anaerobic by design. Strength training can be used for rehabilitation or fitness in personal of sports regiments.
Exercise that has it can be utilized for both rehabilitation and fitness purposes as well as in sports specific training.
Strength training involve three principles: Overload, Progression and Specificity.
Overload - Muscles must be utilized past their accustomed use.
Progression - Increase resistance to achieve overload.
Specificity - principle integrates specified muscle group used and repetitive motions.
Gains in strength initially are obtained trough nervous system adaptations. More effective used of the neural paths are achieved. This allows for increases in load-baring capacity.
Body Building
Body building is the activity of the body becoming stronger by adding muscular shape in its efforts to fight gravitational forces. Body building can be recreational exercise or that found in competitive body builders. Any kind of activity that maintain or strengthen your body can be considered body building.
Weight training is a exercise which subjects the body to various amounts of resistance. This comes from free weights of weight lifting equipment. When you weight train the body adapts to increasing body mass and load. As the body's physiology adjusts, more strength and a better fitness is achieved.
Weight Lifting - Weight Loss
Weight lifting increases metabolic activity. This generates additional fat burning which results in fat burning. Weight lofting may not be advisable for those over weight by more that 25 pound. The better approach is to start with anaerobic activity to lose that weight.
Adults 25- 50 pounds overweight ought to combine a regiment of 30-45 minutes of aerobic activity six days each week. This program should be broken into alternate aerobic activity done every other day.
After those pounds have disappeared, a new program can be initiated. Combine four days a week of aerobic exercise with two days of weight lifting. This is combination should be reviewed with training professional and your doctor, before being instituted.
Strength Training
Strength training is not just adding muscle bulk. It is used to make better athletes. Strength training benefits include: flexibility, agility and stamina. These results are obtain from a full body workout. Such a workout can allow you to turn your body into an envious machine.
Strength training is not just for professional athletes and weight lifters. Think about other athletes that don't depend on large muscle mass, i.e. gymnasts and volleyball players.
These athlete depend on flexibility and agility, not extreme muscles.
Bart Ritchey writes on a variety of personal, business and marketing related issues. You can learn more by visiting my blog, Home Fitness, fitnessactivities-bart.blogspot.com fitnessactivities-bart.blogspot.com/
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