Types of Fitness Exercises
What exercises can you do to improve your fitness? There are many forms of exercise that aim to improve specific aspects of physical fitness:
Endurance and Cardio. This refers to activities that aims to improve your heart rate and breathing. These exercises aim to work on your stamina and keep your circulatory system, lungs, and heart healthy. Endurance, in particular, is defined as the ability to sustain a physical activity for a particular period of time. Examples of such activities include running, biking, swimming, jumping jacks, and sports like boxing.
Strength. Muscle strength is the ability of your muscle/s to produce (and sustain) a contraction to elicit movement. And this movement is often used together with power, your muscle’s ability to produce movement within a particular time. Strength training comes naturally to certain individuals, such as workers that perform manual labor. Examples include weightlifting, hill walking, cycling, push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, working with resistance bands.
Flexibility. These exercises stretch your muscles and keep your body flexible to reduce the risk of injuries while exercising. Examples include forward and side lunges, cross-overs, knees to chest stretches, and standing hamstring stretches.
Balance. Balance exercises are physical activities that involve one’s ability to maintain and/or return to an upright position or in midline and control one’s center of gravity. Performing balance exercises also helps to prevent falls. Examples of such exercises include balancing on one foot, balance walk, tai chi, and leg lifts with dumbbells.
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