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Fitness can be a great way of maintaining your health in a good condition. Some of the main benefits of fitness are:
- cardiac function improvement
- the increase of body and muscle strength
- hypertension risk reduction
What's the daily necessary physical activity required for a good physical condition?
The specialists recommend:
- moderate physical activity for 30 minutes per day, 5 days / week
- intense physical exercises for 20 minutes per day, 3 days / week
Very intense physical activities are the exercises that determine the pulse increase to as high as 70% of it's reachable maximum. Children and teenagers must benefit from physical activity for at least 1 hour per day.
Fitness goals:
There are two types of goals, when we speak about fitness: short term and long term goals.
The short term fitness goals are:
- a healthier heart: physical exercises require intense heart beat and this way the heart becomes stronger and more resistant
- healthier muscles, articulations and bone system: lifting weights at the gym strengthens your muscle and increases the bone density
- calories burning: physical activity causes the burn of the calorie and maintain a balance between consumed and used calories. When you work out on a regular basis, the organism burns calories during both the exercise and repose time
- an adequate organism's reaction to stress: persons with a good physical condition are less predisposed to depressions and anxiety
- the improvement of sleep capacity
The long term fitness goals include the decrease of:
- arterial hipertension
- heart attack
- colon cancer
- obesity
It is necessary that you consult a medic before starting a physical activities program, specially persons that suffer from arterial hypertension or diabetes.
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