Posts Tagged ‘Physical activity’
Physical Activity and Age
Here below are listed in alphabetical order certain physical activities, on which is intended only to raise some basic guidelines in reference to the recommended age of achievement for each of them.
Athletics
Depending on the type of activity can be practiced from childhood to middle age, promoting endurance, strength, coordination and elimination of fats. The lesions may be back, joints and others.
Aerobics – water aerobics
From teens to seniors, taking into account the impacts should be reduced by age to not load the joints, especially knees, plus you have to keep an adequate heart rate. We recommend three sessions a week, resting a day between them. Read the rest of this entry »
Women and Physical Activity
Regular physical activity combined with healthy eating habits can improve the health of women and help prevent many diseases are the leading causes of death and disability that affect everyone. Think again it is estimated that over eighty percent of women over forty years go by sitting most of the day.
As already indicated, exercise helps prevent cardiovascular diseases, which include heart disease, stroke and hypertension, representing one third of deaths among women worldwide.
The combination of regular physical activity and healthy diet is controlled and fully effective half to prevent and control these problems and others, such as obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis or arthritis, and help in the menopause and even during pregnancy, where you can keep the physical activity that will vastly improve flexibility and strength needed. Read the rest of this entry »
Food, Sports and Physical Activity
The effectiveness of muscle to generate force and motion depends on the ability of muscle cells to contract and, as in other “machines” of the fuel used. Therefore, no wonder the interest in the relationship between muscle power and efficiency. See also ‘Exercise and Calories’
Fuel
Until the early twentieth century it was thought that the ideal fuel for muscle proteins were, it was necessary to provide in the form of meat. These ideas led to supply problems such as the German army in World War I, which according to the beliefs of the time eating per capita was almost a kilo of meat every day. Read the rest of this entry »
Pregnant? The best exercises
Yesterday we discussed the importance of exercise and sedentary flee. That also goes for when you’re pregnant. And is that during pregnancy, although it is true that you can not make an effort too strong, it can do some physical activity.
We tell some of the best things you can do:
* Walking: without doubt one of the recommendations are made to all pregnant women is to walk. And it is a good way to move, and is an exercise you can do over nine months.
* Swimming: You can sign up for a swimming course for pregnant women, a great idea, or if there is also the possibility that swim on your own, yes, avoiding doing the breast stroke and without separating the legs too.
* Gym: sure if you ask at your gym routine to guide you exercise you should do, and can even create a table you special exercises.
How to Control Stress
Exercise is a means to promote health, feel good, look better and increase the capacity constraints. So you can give an importance that exceeds the simple maintenance of bodily health.
You can use physical activity as a powerful anxiolytic to neutralize the negative effects of excessive stress.
Anyway, mind-body duality is a discussion that takes centuries, but when in the sciences of human movement motor is spoken, it is understood that there is always the level of thinking, so the body can never be separated from mental activity as they influence each other.
By this I mean that acting on your body will also improve your mental aspect.
This task can carry out physical activity, whatever. Read the rest of this entry »
Guide to Lose Weight With Exercise
The American College of Sports Medicine recommended 30 minutes a day of moderate aerobic activity to ward off the risk factors. It should be clear that this recommendation is to promote health, and is not a direct passport to weight loss.
Maintaining a caloric balance, that is, eating the same calories spent on the day to lose weight you must burn 2500 calories per week just by doing some physical activity. Of those 2500 calories, at least 800 must be burned by high intensity exercise.
Therefore, aerobic exercises are not the only ones that must be made in weight reduction programs, and generally makes low intensity. Unless sandwich short periods of high intensity, active breaks, ie, moving slowly to recover.
One sure way to increase the intensity physical exercise is doing strength training. Read the rest of this entry »
Rules Against Cellulite
Basic rules we should take to fight cellulite:
1. Reduce salt
The salt retains fluid and causes swelling of the tissues you. It also reduces the consumption of sugars and fats and which behave like complex digestive processes that facilitate the development of toxins and adipose tissue degenerate; also encourage weight gain and the appearance of cellulite.
2. Waiver of coffee and cigarette
Both are vasoconstrictors, decrease the diameter of vessels, reduce the amount of blood that reaches the periphery of the body and prevent tissue oxygenation.
3. Say no to alcoholic beverages
Favor the retention, cellulite and swelling of legs, besides having a high caloric content.
4. Drink plenty of water
Purifies the body and helping to eliminate fluids and toxins. The ideal is to take two liters per day, starting with a glass fasting and taking one every hour. If you can, try to take a natural diuretic as Jamaican water or grapefruit without sugar, which will help you eliminate fluid more quickly.
5. Avoid staying long sitting or standing
If the job requires you to sit still long, try to stretch their legs occasionally. If you’re sitting, at least every hour stop and walk two minutes and make some moves that make you stretch and relax muscles.
6. Sit properly
Do parallel with knees and feet flat on the floor. Do not cross your legs, because the pressure on the pelvic area causes traffic problems at the groin.
7. Take precautions with contraceptives
He recalled that the estrogens contained in oral contraceptives, promote fluid retention and the appearance of cellulite. If you have cellulite or you’re afraid to be prone, the better to assess the possibility of using other contraception. For any doubt, consult your doctor.
8. Say goodbye to high heels
In addition to causing pain in the feet, hinder the flow of blood. The perfect shoe must have a heel with a height between 3 and 5 cm., So the heel can develop as normal blood pump function.
9. Forget the tight clothing
If you have cellulite, it is better to sacrifice fashion to avoid having this problem: jeans, tight belts, strong elastic underwear, tight pants, etc., Are a hindrance to the movement, the main cause of the appearance of cellulite.
10. Anti constipation
The loose bowel, is an ally of cellulite: the pressure put on her spleen, prevents the proper flow of blood to the heart and impairs blood circulation. If you suffer. Eating a diet rich in water, fiber, fruits and vegetables.
11. Exercise
Physical activity is a hobby that also promotes the burning of calories, prevents the accumulation of fat, tones muscles and promotes circulation. So do some aerobic sports like swimming, running, spinning, etc.