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Exercise is fundamental to healthy living. Ask questions here about types of exercise and developing exercise habits in your life.

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What level if intensity should a warm-up be?

The warm up should begin slowly and then gradually pick up the pace. It should match the intensity of the first interval by the end of the warm up.

What is the average walking speed for a 50-year-old man?

A fifty year old should be around the peak of his life - enough fitness to ensure good performance, and aided by maturity in experience.

6km per hour should be well within reach for extended periods.

Why is bodybuilding bad?

I don't think bodybuilding is bad. If you can consume a fraction from your daily routine to shape up your body, it can't be said as bad at all. However complications may arise if you give it up completely.

What is three reasons why it is beneficial to add strength training exercises to your workouts?

  • Prevent or rehabilitate an injury
  • Control body weight
  • Prevent osteoporosis
  • Improve athletic performance
  • Manage stress
  • Tone muscles
  • Enhance confidence and self-image

Why does a swimmer need muscular endurance?

  1. It strengthens the muscles involved in respiration, to facilitate the flow of air in and out of the lungs.
  2. It strengthens and enlarges the heart muscle, to improve its pumping efficiency and reduce the resting heart rate, known as aerobic conditioning.
  3. Improves circulation efficiency and reducing blood pressure.
  4. Increases the total number of red blood cells in the body, facilitating transport of oxygen.
  5. Improves mental health, including reducing stress and lowering the incidence of depression.
  6. Reduces the risk for diabetes.
  7. Also known to reduce the risk of osteroperosis for both men and women.

How does exercise help to achieve a balance for your body?

Balancing in any form -- whether it be yoga, martial arts, other sports, or simply when one walks with correct posture -- benefits the body because it strengthens the smaller "stabilizing" muscles in the body. Most strengthening exercises are directed at the larger muscles, which is fine if you want to increase your gross strength. However, strengthening the smaller, "stabilizing" muscles enables the body to be more versitile, and allows a person to be able to do tasks that don't simply rely on gross strength.

How does speed affect intensity of exercise?

The word intensity as it applies to Prilepin's chart for determining the optimal weight for reps and sets, is one thing, but I will assume you are asking what is the effect on your central nervous system if you perform an exercise faster. If you train faster with an increased speed, you will become faster in that exercise. Training slow makes you slow. There are those who say that as long as you train to failure, you will be activating the fast twitch muscle fibers and so you do not have to train so fast but most strength athletes use some type of speed training.

It must be noted that for speed strength training to have any great effect on your athleticism, you should be fairly strong first. Lift heavy things first and then work on your speed. This seems to be the best protocol.

How many crunches to do in one day?

The answer is yes, but it's not good for your abdominal muscles. If you want to see gains, you must let your muscles rest after a workout. I would say do crunches every other day. Because you workout, your muscle fibers tear. Because they tear, they need to heal. So just give it a day to heal. And remember, a diet is key to having abs.

What is the weight of an olympic bar?

A men's Olympic bar weighs 20 kg that is 44 lbs.
A women's weighs 15 kg that is 33 lbs.
The variant used for bicep curls is called an EZ bar and weighs approximately 8 kg or 18 lbs for both men and women.

Should you do a warm up before strenuous exercise?

if you are going to warm up for a hard session, its vital you do it properly, otherwise you will cause damage.A good warm up i like to is 2 laps (400m) of a light jog then stop and stretch your muscles, making sure you do it properly, even twice if you need to.After i get on the rower machine for 5 minutes to get my heart rate going! warm up complete.It may sound like a lot of effort but its worth it

How long do teenagers need to exercise a day to be healthy?

i would say jogging would be the best. if you already exercise then probably 30 minutes, or you could do walk for 10 for a week, then the next week jog for 10 and then work yourself up to the 30 minutes.

Can working out stunt a child's growth?

no complete opposite actually so my answer NO WAY :):):):):):)

What are some cardiovascular fitness activities?

Any sort of aerobic exercise should be done at least 4-5 times per week for about 1 hour to develop your cardiovascular and pulmonary fitness. One should also try to maintain his ideal body weight and stop untoward habits, such as drinking to excess and smoking. Refrain from high fat-high carbohydrate diets and drink plenty of water to help flush toxins from the system.

Enumerate and define he components of physical fitness?

The different components of physical fitness are physiological, health related, and skill related. The health related components are body composition, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance.

Do pushups equals flat stomach?

A good diet + exercise = flat stomach

So while push ups can help in making a flat stomach, which in fact is just low body fat, it will be useless if proper nutrition and other exercise, ex. weightlifting and cardio, is not utilized.

Im 13 you need to get a flat stomach?

Same (: but do not worry... You arr only 13 and dont need to worry about your stomach. Trust me eat healthy walking is better then rumming so i suggust walking and try not to eat after 6:00pm (: sorry i know its not what you were looking for but i hope it help

XD kelly

Which cardiovascular exercise is best for getting rid of stomach fat?

No exercise gets ride of fat in any specific area anymore than any other exercise. You perform work, your body needs energy, and will burn fat wherever that fat might happen to be. So if you have a flabby chest, you more than likely have a flabby body. Drop your total body fat, and the chest fat will go too. Any cardiovascular exercise that elevates your heart rate to 50-80% of it's maximum will do the trick. The American Heart Association recommends 60-90 minutes of cardiovascular exercise a day, essentially everyday for those trying to lose weight. Timothy is right. You cannot target an area where you want to burn fat. But SOMETIMES you can target an area that you want to firm up. If you abdominal muscles are weak, you will hang out a little more. Situps can firm the muscles and help you look better. You won't necessarily loose any weight but the stronger muscles will pull in your abs. Weight loss and muscle mass go together.Calories areburned in the muscles. Fat doesn't mysteriously disappear when you eat less, the calories must be burned and you do that in the muscles. THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE SUCH A CONVERSION TAKES PLACE! You can increase the rate at which muscle burns the fat in two ways: 1. make the muscles work more... in other words exercise. 2. make the muscles stronger/larger... in other words, get fit. If your muscles are burning more calories than you're eating you loose weight. If you're eating more calories than your muscles can burn, you gain weight. It isn't magic, in fact it isn't even very complex.

What is one similarity between Pilates and yoga?

The body-mind connection, the breathe work. The hard work-that pays of towards a fit body.

Is jumping on a trampoline bad for your back?

Yes it is it will curve your spine if u constantly keep doing "tricks" or "cool moves". People don't know but it may be fun and all, but it can lead to scoliosis(a curve in the spine in the curve of an S or C.I hope this helped you:)

Is it healthy to worhout on the abs every day?

No, abs are muscles like any other. You wouldn't train your biceps every day!

They need days off to recover and rebuild. Concentrate on quality rather than quantity, prehaps looking at 5-10 minutes 3 or 4 times a week, focusing on correct technique. Core exercises are very useful, such as the 'plank'.

Make sure your diet is right for you, and you are sleeping well also.

Getting a good sleep pattern is super important, get a regular body clock sorted out and never sleep less than eight hours a night. Recent research has proven that if you get less than six hours sleep you begin to store fat around your mid section much more readily.

As for training you can train your abs as much as you want actually. Its not like every other muscle because there is a much greater pool supply of blood within that region of the body. 30 mins daily would be ideal mixing up reps and isometric exercises like the plank each session. I myself simply cannot train more than four or five times a week because I find the muscles get sore, work within your limits and keep an eye on your progress, I`d certainly have a couple of days off training each week.