subject: Fitness Exercises [print this page] Exercise plays an important role in maintaining good health. We all have our fitness goals - strength training, weight reduction or body contouring. Today's there are numerous amounts of fitness exercises that you can do to improve your fitness level. In all the fitness exercises it is depending on what you want to accomplish, they can range from doing simple exercises that you may already be doing and require no special equipment to joining a fitness center and using more specialized equipment.
There are many types of fitness exercises that are available in the world. When you decided you have taken the time to determine your health and fitness goals, the easiest way to decide which fitness exercises you would like to do is to follow the 5 components of fitness that are cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition. So let's look at some exercises you can do for each component.
1.) The first fitness exercise include is cardiovascular fitness and for the cardiovascular fitness the best exercises is aerobic exercises. In other words, any exercise that is low intensity but require a lot of oxygen for a prolonged period. Actually, an aerobic activity should last for at least 20 minutes. Of course there are many recreational activities that are enjoyable and aerobic in nature. Some examples are jogging, swimming, cycling, inline skating, dancing, and speed walking.
2.) Another is muscular endurance exercises that are the opposite of cardiovascular (aerobic) exercises. The muscular endurance exercises are anaerobic, meaning they have a high intensity for a short period of time so they don't require a lot of oxygen. There are some examples of exercises to help you improve your muscular endurance would be push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, sprints, a high-repetition circuit strength workout.
3) The next one is muscular strength exercises are just that - exercises that strengthen or build muscles. Examples are weight lifting or strength training. Specifically, some exercises are bench press, leg press, bicep curls, and shoulder press. Go into any weight room and you'll see that there are dozens of exercises that you can do.
4) Flexibility can be improved through stretching. There are two types of stretching - dynamic and static. Dynamic stretching is more advanced and involves moving. For most, static stretching is best. Static stretching is the type of stretching you're probably used to. There are numerous stretching exercises for each joint! Some body part stretching you could do for the calves, shin and hip flexors, quadriceps, hamstrings, gluts, inner thighs, outer thighs, abdominal, upper back, lower back, shoulders, and triceps.
5.) Your body composition is actually based on the extent that you perform the other four components. There are no special physical fitness exercises you need to do beyond the suggestions mentioned above. Just make sure you eat healthy and exercise.
