People achieve many physical and mental health benefits from exercise, but 79 percent of adults in the US don’t exercise regularly (Hellmich). Many people believe any form of physical activity can be considered an exercise. Exercise is broken into four different groups: aerobic exercise, anaerobic exercise, balance exercise and flexibility exercise (4 Types). Aerobic exercise is an activity that improves endurance. Some examples of aerobic exercise include walking, running, and playing sports. Anaerobic exercise such as weight lifting helps build muscle and power. Balance exercise is movement that helps a person’s balance. Flexibility exercise such as yoga stretches your muscles. There are different forms of exercises and all of them have various
The best known result of lack of physical activity and exercise is overweight and obesity. According to James McKinney, studies have discovered that having an active life and exercising at least 150 minutes per week, alternatively, 15 minutes a day, not only can help avoid obesity, but also improve health reducing the chances of developing a chronic disease (McKinney. 132,133). He also states that, “High levels of physical activity and cardio respiratory fitness are associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality”. Furthermore, “more physical activity can reduce the development of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke and cancer.” (McKinney,134). In addition, having an active life can reduce the chances of getting cancer by 45% (McKinney,134), and also, reduces the symptoms of depression by 30%
Exercise can benefit an individual in many ways. Through research I have found several articles which have been written throughout the years that address these benefits. Some of these benefits are to prevent diseases, to improve stamina, to strengthen and tone, to enhance flexibility, to control weight, and to improve quality of life. All of these benefits will be address throughout this paper. However, even though exercise does benefits an individual, it does also depends on their circumstances. For example, exercise can be done to help with a pregnancy and after a pregnancy, to control diabetes, and to help the brain function for achievement in school.
Ways people quit smoking are by mental and note form reminders of why they are quitting, rewarding themselves, distraction, using gum or healthy snacks e.g celery and carrots, exercise, drinking cool water and nicotine patches or supplements.
Exercising is known to be beneficial to one’s health so it is interesting to see how this process affects one’s physiology. Exercising entails the contraction and relaxation of the muscles in the body. There are two general types of exercise that are characterized by the amount of oxygen that is present. Aerobic exercise is when there is sufficient oxygen present to meet the body’s needs, and anaerobic exercise is when there is not. In both cases, the muscles are able to contract and relax by using cellular energy. This energy is generated through a three step process that results in the high-energy molecule known as adenosine triphosphate or ATP. The beginning of the three step cycle is known as glycolysis which consists of breaking down glucose that is obtained in the diet to a molecule known as pyruvate or pyruvic acid while also creating two ATP molecules. Pyruvate can undergo changes depending on if it is in anaerobic or aerobic conditions, but in the process of creating ATP, it has a conformational change to another molecule called acetyl CoA which enters the second stage of the cycle known as the Citric Acid Cycle. During this
I retrieved this peer-reviewed article from within the Harvard Health Letter where an author was not listed in order to evaluate the authority and background. When the word exercise is brought into conversation, one thought assumed to be associated is weight loss. Within this article exercise is evaluated by the opposite of this assumption. Canadian researchers conducted a study of twenty-four men ranging in body sizes from lean to obese, some with medical conditions. The participants had to follow an intense aerobic exercise program for one hour five times a week.
Increasingly, people are suffering from illness from sedentary lifestyle. “Physical activity and exercise is known to have a beneficial effect on a variety of factors relevant to diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including blood pressure, … and insulin sensitivity. Exercise is therefore recommended for both the prevention of diabetes and the treatment of people with diabetes” (Lumb, 2014, p. 673).
According to Spain (2016), “more than 60% of all college students report they do not get the recommended weekly amount of exercise” (page 1. This is a distressingly high number. It is essential for the still developing college student to incorporate physical exercise into their daily life for not only physical reasons and benefits, but for their mental health as well. College students are under a great amount of stress and it is occasionally a challenge to fit other activities into their schedule, but with repetition it can certainly be done and the benefits are well beyond just some weight loss. In nursing some of the goals are to promote health and prevents illness, exercise does just that. It is
The clinical question for the project is “Does exercise along with diet and medication play an important
In the year 1996, through a report by the Surgeon General, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) created a report called At-A-Glance, that contains information regarding the benefits that physical activity has when regarding health issues that face people as well as how said physical activity impacts their life in a positive way. The report combines different information gathered over the years that includes information regarding demographics as well as information regarding how frequency and intensity affect the impact that physical activity has. The Center or Disease Control states that “This report brings together, for the first time, what has been learned about physical activity and health from decades of research.”
Exercise is one of the most important factors in a persons’ life. Physical activity, or the lack of it, can result in a person having a healthy life or cause them to have diabetes. The benefits of exercise are countless. The positive health results, the improvement in attitude, even better academic performance are all factors which make not exercising inexcusable.
The terms “physical activity” and “exercise” have often been used interchangeably. Physical activity is “bodily movement that is produced by the contraction of skeletal muscle and that substantially increases energy expenditure”. Although the terms are similar in that they involve any bodily movement that expends energy, exercise is a subset of physical activity that has been defined as “planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement done to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness” and physical fitness is “a set of attributes that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity”. To learn about the impact of environmental influences on all domains of physical activity, researchers have recently begun to collect reliable data on the forms of physical activity apart from leisure time (or recreational) physical activity.
According to the Merriam Webster, exercise is defined as “physical activity that is done in order to become stronger and healthier”. Exercise is essential in achieving optimal health, as it pushes us out of our comfort zone and away from disease and death. It helps us to find a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being as well as a balance between them all.
Having regular physical exercise is certainly beneficial to one’s health and I am glad to be keeping up with this lifestyle since last summer. Regardless of the extent of my personal and school commitments, I aim to exercise at least 3-4 times weekly. After some research and personal reflection, I realised that this lifestyle can be attributed to several reasons and I thought it would be timely to examine these reasons in depth, which would, perhaps, help me better maintain this positive lifestyle.