Evaluating And Outlining The Benefits Of Exercise And Physical Activity ( Word Report )

Benefits Of Physical Activity, Exercise And Sport In Relation To Health

The fourth risk factor for global mortality is physical inactivity, which is roughly 3.2million people each year. Being active plays a defining role in ensuring a state of well being and health is maintained.

Physical activity is beneficial throughout; from childhood to adulthood it has sustained positive health implications. Children are known to have improved concentration levels and lower levels of obesity. Whereas adults seemingly have better mobility, increased muscle density and overall a healthy longer lifestyle. Completing physical activity, whether exercising or in sport is not always straightforward. With this in mind a ‘recommended guideline’ was created which broke down key factors of exercise and timescales you should do.

This guideline focuses on under 5’s all the way up to 65 years and older. It is clear that the expected workloads vary between age barriers, toddlers and babies are should be encouraged to crawl, reach and grab objects. From 5 onwards the guideline pinpoints differing ‘target zones’ to exercise varying from aerobic, muscle-strengthening to bone-strengthening.

Reaching these physical activity targets has a beneficial effect, and is known to lower cholesterol amongst other potential fatal issues like caner.

Exercise helps you maintain or lower weight, being overweight increases lipoprotein within the blood, which is a major factor in heart disease.

The more exercise you partake in the, your body reacts positively by expelling enzymes to break down this protein into bile for digestion.

High levels of lipoprotein within the blood cause high blood pressure, which is a known cause of type two diabetes and numerous cardiovascula...

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...nd a playing point of view. Maintenance costs to say water-turfed areas has become an increasing burden and effect expandable income greatly.

These fundamental grass-root changes have spread through all levels of sporting competition; at a time when traditional methods to seek funding are ill effective. Sponsors are increasingly difficult to seek as they are now after greater demographic value for there contribution. This economic downturn places further onus on schools as sporting clubs struggle to afford the increased costs.

The ever-increasing burden on schools to implement sport has lead to such problems that I have mentioned. Sport at a time when it should be a the forefront of peoples minds is stuck in a vicious financial circle; until that is broke (potentially governmental intervention) the delivery of sport and physical activity will forever been impeded.