The New Year has arrived, and with it, a deluge of New Year’s resolutions. Many of these resolutions are fitness based. In fact, 27%, the majority, of all resolutions are directly related to a fitness and health centered lifestyle (statisticbrain.com). People want to start exercising, but for many of them, it is unclear where they should start. A major contributing factor to the confusion is what type of exercise program to choose. Two methods make up the majority of exercise routines, calisthenics and weightlifting. In brief, calisthenics is exercising using only one’s bodyweight, while weightlifting is using special equipment to exercise. Examples of calisthenics exercises are push-ups, sit ups, and squats. Weightlifting can include …show more content…
If a man was stuck in the woods or in a small room, he would be able to complete his calisthenics workout just as easily as if he would at his house or the gym. This would not be the case if his workout was weightlifting based, unless he happens upon a fully-equipped gym while in the woods. Both exercises vary in their starting prices. A calisthenics-based workout has an average starting cost of $0, because it is done with the body weight of the exerciser, which comes pre-installed. Conversely, the average gym membership is $58 a month (Costa) which adds up to $696 a year. Purchasing the equipment for at-home use is even more expensive, costing an upwards of $3,300 for the five most common and versatile exercise devices (Lauletta) and an entire room would be required to house all of it. Regarding convenience, calisthenics is far superior.
Risk plays a large role in deciding on exercise programs, especially for those who are older or have a history of injury. Counterintuitively, calisthenics has much more risk involved than weightlifting. Non-weightlifting based exercises cause an average 154,152 injuries annually. Contrarily, only 49,246 injuries caused by lifting weights occur on average every year. Non-weightlifting exercises are more than three times as likely to cause injury compared to weightlifting exercises. The number of injuries is increasing as well, as 346, 968 non-weightlifting exercise injuries and 102,825 weightlifting injuries were reported in
As you can see the convenience of a home gym also has the disadvantage that you can be easily distracted and convince yourself to do something other than workout. Now a days gyms are close by, have many locations, showers and child care. All of these things make going to the gym almost as time efficient and convenient as working out at home without all the added distractions.
Most of know this to be a very specialized and technical sport. Well, it is, and if you don't know what you are doing you can certainly hurt yourself. Maybe this is one reason so many of us have sore backs due to improper body mechanics. Olympic weight lifters are some of the most athletic and powerful athletes around. This is just in the nature of the sport. To explain it simply the object of the sport is to pick an object up off the floor to your shoulders (the clean) or overhead position as efficiently as possible (clean and jerk or snatch). I will not bore you with the details of Olympic Weight Lifting at this time. If you think about it, you probably execute these types of motions throughout the day in life. Weather you are lifting a child, a bag of groceries, or any object for that manner. Olympic lifting doesn't have to involve a bar with weights on it, any object can be used including dumbbells, medicine balls, stones, sandbags, and Russian Kettlebells (this in an article in
The CrossFit is becoming more and more popular workout worldwide and due to the severity of the exercises, it is logical to assume that more injuries might occur. According to the authors who performed a research about injuries due to CrossFit exercises, they found out that people are not at a higher risk of experiencing injury compared to other similar workouts. However, authors confirmed that there is a higher probability to experience injury while participating in a CrossFit workout as compared to
Today's people are not moving enough because technology becomes more common in the world which helps to live easier. We burn off calories less than the past. Moreover, the more we are busy, the less we burn off calories. It means that we are just tired, so we should understand the importance of our health by doing
As a student, I maintain physical wellness by trying my best to stay active. Last semester, I had volleyball practices every Monday through Friday for at least two hours. In addition to practice, our team played matches at least once a week, occasionally twice a week. This semester, I have weight training workouts for an hour and a half in the mornings on Monday through Friday every week. During the daytime hours, I practice volleyball every Monday through Thursday. To maintain mental wellness, I try my best to spend at least an hour a week doing something for me, which I enjoy. An example of this would be spending my time by running and walking outdoor trails, watching the TV show, Criminal Minds, with my friends, or enjoying time with my family members. By doing this, I am sure that I stay just as mentally healthy as I am physically healthy.
At the very start of the school year semester. I was not at all fond about taking Fitness Wellness. I was honestly dreading the fact of working out. However, I knew I needed to take it and be a trooper about it. After all I could not really debate about it or complain about it. The Reason being it was a requirement set for me. Even though I was not excited about taking this program. I still decided to set up some personal goals, before starting the course. One personal goal of mine was to lose the extra body fat I had gained in the past months. My second goal was to achieve a healthier lifestyle by eating healthier. My third goal was to work out more and lastly gain a toner body figure like a healthy model you could say. In total I settled up four personal goals.
There are many benefits to living a healthy lifestyle, and there are many aspects that lead into it. Three important aspects that are most beneficial to a healthy life include sleep, diet and nutrition, and exercise. To live a healthy life starts at a young age. Living a healthy lifestyle when young is beneficial for adult life.
During the 1980s and 1990s, it was commonly known that weight training in youths could lead to more injuries due to a non- fully developed stature. However, NEISS data concludes that weight training is not necessarily to the cause of injury. Instead, poor technique, excessive loading, poorly designed equipment, and lack of proper supervision is the leading cause. More recently, findings indicate a low risk of injury in children and adolescents who follow age- appropriate training guidelines. It is important to consult a trained professional to develop a proper training regime for a specific age group.
Pros and cons of training modalities remain apparent regardless of preference; whether one favours safety due to injuries, or heavy weight to increase the amount of skeletal muscle mass. This meta-analysis seeks to compare and relate the differences between the two, by comparing results of 1RMs and 3RMs across three separate studies. Each study typically identified a separate facet, from the levels of muscle activation during a press, to the correlations between machine exercise and the free-weight counterparts. Although, not all sourced information remained relevant, the nature of the studies gave relative data regarding repetition maximums across the differing
My physical wellness is not the best because I would work out for around 10 minutes a day and on weekends around an hour because of my busy schedule and I don’t eat healthy every day and I know there is room for improvement, but, the two main area in which I believe I need to improve is my emotion and social wellness. The reason why is because I’m well known as a very shy person in my community because I have a personal fear of interacting with people and I would love to work on that emotionally and socially so I can conquer any fear and even gain more self confidence in myself. My financial wellness is not the best as well but I’m young and still paying my way through college and making sure that after I get my degree, I can finally gain financial
Health and wellness are increasingly being used. Health actually is more to a medical and describes the mental and physical state of a person. It will reflect a lack of disease of a person. In the contrary, wellness is defined as the overall process of maintaining a state of good health of a person. Wellness involves conscious decisions on the part of the individual, while health simply describes a person's condition of the body. However, the combined phrase health and wellness showed the meaning of the state of complete physical, mental, emotional health and social wellbeing, and it is when a person is absence of disease.
Health and Fitness are a big aspect in the world today. This industry has had an incredible amount of growth over the past 30 years. The industry first became popular in the 1970 's, with the idea that it would not always be popular. "Most Americans rate their physical and emotional health as a top personal priority." This industry has two major demographic groups; The Boomers and the Gen Y generation. The main reason why the Industry has grown and is still growing is because people are becoming more aware of the importance to stay healthy and fit.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is indeed a meaningful duty we owe ourselves. ‘If you do not have good health, you do not have wealth’. Healthy lifestyle means upholding a balanced and nutritious diet as well as involves in fitness activities. A healthy diet alone however isn’t sufficient to produce a healthy body as physical activity helps to keep one in shape and free of sickness and disease.
You sound like you have a very realistic goal. Most people do not understand the idea of gradual weight loss, but I am glad your goal is 15-20 lbs. in six weeks. That is very possible! You need a good combination of aerobic activity and resistance training combined with a healthy diet. It is not recommended to lose more than 1-3 lbs a week. If you want to lose weight the correct and safe way that will stay off for the long-term you need a good exercise and nutrition plan. A good program looks like this: Always warm up and cool down Muscular strength & endurance-you need a good resistance training program that includes exercises for all muscle groups(hips, chest, upper and mid
Good morning, I am honored to be here today on this occasion to learn about healthy lifestyles awareness. Similarly you should also be honored to learn about these issues and stay life longer in this wonderful world. Before I start my speech, let me tell you how serious the chronic diseases happen in your surroundings. According to Health Ministry recently revealed there are around 2.6million Malaysians who suffer from diabetes – which makes 1 in 5 people have diabetes. While, more than 50% of Malaysian either overweight or obese. Until today, heart diseases still remain number one killer in Malaysia. According Consultant cardiologist and Malaysian Heart Foundation director Datuk Dr Khoo said just now, one out of three Malaysians suffered