For Everything Fitness
Aside from air, water and shelter, food is essential for survival. Food provides the energy our bodies need to stay alive. Macronutrients are nutrients in food that provide calories or energy. Without these substances the body would not be able to grow, metabolize or perform other crucial … [Read more...]
Exercise is considered an activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness. In order to successfully participate in these activities, fundamental movement skills are required. Without them, exercise for kids can be a frustrating experience. If kids don't … [Read more...]
Being physically active is more important to health than any other part of life that is under our direct control. Recent research suggests that it is better for your health to be overweight and active than to be at a normal weight and be inactive. Exercise for kids, offered in motivating ways that … [Read more...]
Most of us take our bones for granted. Couch potatoes and world class athletes tend to forget about them until they experience pain as a result of physical stress, physical injury or a symptom of disease (ie. osteoporosis, cancer, etc.). What the majority of us don't realize is our bones are as … [Read more...]
Parents, guardians, schools and community-based organizations have a responsibility to provide adequate amounts of exercise for kids. When kids engage in regular physical activity they become more healthy and fit. Physically active kids have higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness and … [Read more...]
Our lives are bound by "time". It is indefinite and continuous and helps us relate events to our past, present and future. It is the one constant that all humans abide by, creating certainty and order. Every human life has a beginning and an end. Although we take it for granted leading up to our … [Read more...]
Over the years it's become standard practice for fitness organizations to watch market trends. A trend is defined by a shift in behavior, or mentality, that influences a significant amount of people. Unlike a fad (which is "a fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of … [Read more...]
When you think of the word "exercise" the brain is probably the last thing that you think about. Flexing muscles, moving limbs, expanding lungs and a racing heart are obvious images that come to mind ... not the explosion of activities going on in the brain. We know that when we exercise our … [Read more...]
Everyone should exercise ... including women who are pregnant and expecting. It's good for you. It's good for the developing baby. It promotes overall good health and a better quality of life. Exercise and physical activity have few risks and multiple rewards when it comes to (an … [Read more...]
Designing an effective fitness program is not as simple as it may seem. It's more than choosing a list of exercises, determining the number of repetitions and outlining the number of sets. It involves selecting a combination of exercises designed to challenge all possible movements of the body. … [Read more...]
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