Friday 17 May 2013

Fitness:- How To Choose The Right Activity For You?


Fitness

If you want to sport in fitness room, you are spoilt for choice. Strength training, cardio, fitness in common courses, what is the right choice? Everything depends on your profile...

The indoor sport is for you?

It is not clear to enroll in a fitness room. Subscription, even if it varies from one institution to another, usually is a big expense.

In addition, sports halls have sides that can put off. The showers to take in common, the need to stay within reach of the eyes of a few dozen people, are aspects that will not appeal to everyone.

Nevertheless, for many inhabitants cities, fitness rooms remain the most practicable solution to sport. If you make part, here are some tips for choosing fitness exercises that suit you.

Gym equipment: the health benefits are there

Bodybuilding has a bad reputation: that of a sport "increase" who make fat muscles but has no impact on health. It is a mistake.

Bodybuilding has health benefits, mainly in the fight against osteoporosis. Solicit muscles strengthens indeed bones to which they relate. Increase muscle mass decreases, according to a recent study (1), the risk of diabetes type 2.

Therefore if you enjoy "pushing the cast" and have a well drawn muscles is for you a motivation to do sports, why not!

Cardio: sport for the heart

The cardio, in the jargon of sports halls, these are all exercises that increase endurance and resistance to effort.

Walking or running on a treadmill, bike or elliptical are different ways to obtain this training in a gym. It is very beneficial to the cardiovascular system - hence its name.

It is also most likely to lose weight fast: as many muscles are requested at the same time, calories are burned. Especially as the cardio practice preferably during relatively long sessions, at least half an hour.

Fitness: courses in group for motivation and variety

Last major category of exercises to do in gym: fitness collective courses. These sometimes are traditional activities (Pilates, aerobics) supervised by an instructor who makes his own lesson plan.

More often, it is of course standardized, performed in the same way in all the gyms (type Body Pump, Body Balance and assimilated).

In all cases, the benefits are the same: the practice group and music, varied exercises and the presence of an instructor, are normally the motivating factors.

Theoretically, the risk of injury is also decreased by the presence of a professional. Attention however, all instructors are not created equal! And despite their "fun" image, some of these activities are demanding. Check carefully before making your choice.

Aquatic activities: fitness in the pool and smooth

Today, most fitness activities know a declination in the pool. The oldest is probably water aerobics, but can also be the bike, or even the running treadmill in the pool... One speaks then aqua-biking and aqua jogging.

The main interest of these activities is that they are more gentle to joints. Indeed, the weight of the body is decreased by the resistance of the water. On the other hand, it increases efforts to perform the movements.

The activities of fitness in the pool together so a sustained effort and protection against injury, what makes it very interesting for people who must make the sport while sparing, as older people or overweight for example people.

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