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Exercise
Exercise is fundamental to healthy living. Ask questions here about types of exercise and developing exercise habits in your life.
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How does regular exercise help you do better in school?
yes it will because when you have a healthy body, the blood will circulate better towards your brain!
Specific exercises to better the respiratory system?
I would say that there is definitely one main exercise to improve the respiratory system which is running. Running long distance greatly improves your cardiovascular and respiratory systems and also keeps your body in good working order. Although running is not for everyone and a few more exercises are swimming, cycling and any other activity that requires you to have endurance.
Right angle push-ups sit and reach and partial curl-ups?
Right angle push-ups, sit reach, and partial curl-ups are all types of exercises that allow the body to stay in shape. Each of these exercises can be done in different ways to fit each individual.
How will doing push ups help me improve at netball?
it will give you better power when it comes to a game when having to pass a far distance.
How do you work the muscle or knot on the outside of the elbow?
You need to work the muscles in the fore arm. The best exercise that I have ever done, I learned from a baseball player. Tie a weight to the end of a string. Drill a hole through a piece of wood and attach the string. Then, using your hands, roll the string around the piece of wood by rolling it up with your hands. You should see that "knot" on the elbow contracting up and down. You will also work your fore arm at the same time.
How can you lose weight if you are in grade 5 and you weigh 125 lbs?
Eat fewer calories, exercise more. Avoid suggary foods and anything fried or greasy and you'll loose weight. Sugar only makes you more hungry after the calories are burned up and sugar turns to fat quite easily in the body. Fried foods and anything with a lot of butter or other fats will tend to keep you overweight. Eat a lot, just make it things like fruit, veggies, meat & grain products.
If you only exercise twice a week will you lose weight?
If you exercise twice a week you might lose weight only if you exercise like for 30 minutes. You might also like to try exercising for about 60 minutes or more.
How does the body know to increase ventilation rate during exercise?
The truth is that nobody really knows what causes the increase of ventilaion in exercise and keeps it close to metabolic rate.
CO2 is a powerful stimulator of breathing and an increase of CO2 is produced by the body in exercise.
This increase however is only found in the venous circulation where there are no chemoreceptors to detect it. All of the know chemoreceptors (aortic, carotid and central chemoreceptors) are found in the arterial side where there is relativly no fluctuation in the partial pressure of CO2.
Furthermore, when the chemoreceptors are denervated breathing can still increase as normal.
Other possible candidates that are involved in increasing breathing are, muscle chemoreceptors, efferencekopie, proprioreceptors, catecholamines, potassium levels...but all are either unlikley to be a cause or are impossible to measure (e.g. efferencekopie).
So the textbooks will tell you that ventilation remains close to metabolic rate, but they dont say (beacuse they dont know) how it is kept close to metabolic rate.
For further information on this look at works by Mike Parkes (university of Birmingham, united kingdom).
I have uric acid located in my blood, will it lead to diabeties?
If , you are an active male with these statistics and level of output, you are consuming around 1800 calories too few. Be careful. Also, 19% body fat is not so bad, and you have also got to take it off slowly, a 3500 calorie defecit a week will = 1 to 2lb of fat loss a week, any more is un reasonable long term. It's a wonder you are not in a catabolic state and eating away at your own lean tissue. If fat loss is your goal then you should never be more than 10 to 15% under your calorific maintainence intake per day, or your heading for a serious metabolic breakdown. You have got to NUTRIFY not starve the muscle.This is a common mistake made when people of all body types,eg endo, ecto, meso, wish to loose body fat and or grow more lean tissue, paradoxically MORE good whole organic foods are LESS, when it comes to increasing your Metabolic rate and loosing body fat and growing lean tissue......... A concerned reader, school teacher and Kickboxing Instructor.
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Great Answer by the last poster. I'm also a martial artist who's very strict with diet. Let me be clear: if you are only eating 1300 calories, you are eating a dangerous diet and may be doing damage to your body. How long have you been living this way? I find it hard to believe you're at 19% body fat unless you started pretty fat or you just started this severe calorie deprivation. Know that body fat calipers can be tricky to use, even for professionals, so don't obsess over them. You should be able to see improvement in the mirror every 2-3 weeks. Use the Harris Benedict equation to calculate your caloric intake. This equation works, trust me. Also, I would disagree with the last poster--"organic" means nothing if you're talking about losing body fat and staying in shape. There are no indisputable studies that show better health from eating lots and lots of organic products. What you want focus on is "whole food," which is something we can all afford and easily obtain--"whole food" meaning it's not processed. That means all the stuff our great-great grandparents probably ate on daily basis: whole grains (no "enriched flour" nonsense), vegetables (all kinds are good) and fruits (lots of people worry they're eating too much fruit sugar--I think you're fine as long as you keep within your caloric goal--I've cut body fat while eating upwards of 10 servings of fruit a day, although with lots of cardio), meats (though watch the saturated fat) and beans, and a reasonable amount of dairy (again, watch the saturated fat--and also, be stingy with any liquid calories like milk). Danger foods for me are nuts and nut butters: you have to be disciplined not to eat too much peanut butter, for example. A "serving" is two tablespoons--200 calories--and most of us who are active men don't find that amount satisfying. I could sit down and eat half a jar as a snack, so I never eat PB on an empty stomach.
One friendly bit of advice to remember going forward: plenty of *good* wholesome calories help you lose weight, keep you healthy so you don't get sick as often, bring happiness to life, allow social interaction and family gatherings, and keep us connected to our family food traditions (so we're not the weird ones who go on some bizarre "cutting" diet that consists solely of chicken breast, spinach, and an occasional sweet potato). When it comes to diet, think in terms of months and years--avoid trying to cut fat too fast. It's just not worth it since you're already an average healthy man body fat-wise, and I'm assuming you're not a competitive bodybuilder or competitive wrestler/martial artist.
You have lots of discipline it sounds like--you'll have no problem adapting to a healthier, richer diet.
What is the fastest way to lose weight-eating healthy foods or doing exercise?
A combination of both is the fastest way to lose weight. You can't really get the results you want by doing just one or the other.
Can you lose 14pounds in 3 weeks?
You can't lose 14 pounds in 3 weeks safely. The average weight loss per week should be about 1-3 pounds.
What is a eating disorder because vomiting is an effective though dangerous way to lose weight?
Bulimia
Somatic education describes the way people use self-awareness when they move their bodies. The term is used by Moshe Feldenkrais in his Feldenkrais method, and in Joseph Heller's Hellerwork, another system of body work. Feldenkrais theorized that if we use thought and movement together, as our body movement becomes more efficient, our creativity and intelligence would be enhanced.
No sit ups exercise the stomach muscles. Look for exercise for the pecs if you want to make the moobs go away. Although depending on your age, it might not make a difference. When you get older the fat wont go away since it's a hormonal change when the testosterone is lesser then when you were younger. If you are young you might need to loose weight.
How can you lose 50 pounds in 4 weeks without harming yourself?
- Run Atleast 1 Mile A Day (Try To Do It Under 6:30)
- Eat Healthy Stuff (Junk Is Not Good If You Are On A Diet)
- Have Max. 3 Meals A Day
- Try To Do Some Situps ( 100 ) Or Pushups 40
You Will See Fast results !
Good Luck
What happens if a child under 18 takes alli- weight loss pills?
....they will get loopy and disoriented
What would happen if you had no butt?
Well, you wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom and the food in ur body would build up and kill you, so be thankful you have a butt!
Yup, your digestive output would overflow you body and i don't know, maybe rot your body to death, possibly.
Do you have to lose belly fat before you get a six pack?
You have to lose belly fat before you get a six pack. This is the only way that the abdominal muscles will be toned to form a six pack.
Can you reduce the size of your bottom with exercises if you are a normal sized person?
Flex your butt and grab it to see how much of it is muscle and how much is fat.
People store bodyfat in different places so you can be "normal sized" and still carry excess fat on your butt.
If this is the case then the best way to get rid of it is through moderate intensity, medium to long duration aerobic exercise like running, cycling, rowing, aerobic clasess etc combined with a healthy diet that ensures you are not consuming more energy than you are expending.
If it's all muscle then the above will probably help as well unless you do a lot of heavy lifting type work or it's genetic.
Remember there is no exercise that will strip fat from any specific area - the whole body functions as one system.
What is the best way to lose weight in your thighs and hips?
You slim down hips and thighs by moving your hips and thighs. Sorry, there's no shortcut around it. Running, walking, climbing stairs, leg lifts, lunges, leg press exercises at the gym, rollerblading and ice skating, horseback riding, cycling... Any way you cut it, the key is move, move, move! And I don't mean slow walking, like cruising the mall speeds, I mean like speed walking. You have to move fast enough to get your heart rate going in order to burn the calories and tone the muscles. Go through a book demonstrating various exercises (or even YouTube) and pick the ones you feel comfortable doing and alternate them so your muscles will be constantly stimulated. Like, Monday, Wednesday and Friday walk/run/rollerblade for a mile. Tuesday and Thursday do leg lifts, lunges and stretches for an hour. Rest on Sunday.
The other thing to losing weight there is that, as a woman (assuming you are from the aay your question is worded) fat naturally accumulates on hips, thighs, and lower stomach as a preservation tool for emergencies, so it's really hard to get rid of. So in addition to the exercises, monitor what you eat and make sure you're not eating more calories than you burn. Supposing you weighed in around 160 pounds, if you rollerblade at a decent speed for one hour you'll burn up to 913 calories. Now of course, these numbers will change depending on your own weight, but that's just an example. 913 calories sounds like a lot, and burning that in an hour is great, but you totally undo everything you just burnt if after that exercise you come home and eat pepperoni pizza (Pizza Hut: 203 calories per SLICE) and guzzle sodas.
So to slim down keep in mind: Calories in have to be equal or LESS than calories being burned daily. You'll burn calories doing your daily activities, sure, but the bulk are whild you work out.
Remember as you lose weight you have to eat less and exercise more because your body burns less calories when you exercise and requires less calories to maintain its weight. You should use a calorie calculator such as this one www.magnetic-diet.com/calorie-calculator to estimate how many calories your body requires. It also will estimate the amount of carbs, protein, and fat you require.
