The Healthy Life : The Benefits Of Physical Fitness

During childhood our body and mind changes very fast. I believe that nowadays parents focus more on the brain developement of their children than their physical activity. When I was a little girl - over 20 years ago - we spent most of our time outside playing, running and enjoying fresh air and being in movement. Physical activity of children can secure them health and well being in their adulthood as well as teach them a lot of very importants aspects like social relations and behaviors in different situations.

Exercise in general has been known to reep many benefits in health of the body, for example the seven components of fitness as mentioned in ‘ABC of sports and exercise medicine, third edition by Sir Roger Bannister’. (Edited by Gregory P Whyte)

It is a well-kenned fact that exercise is very propitious to the body’s overall health. Exercise has been shown to enhance the circulation of blood throughout the body, relinquish solicitousness, boost self-esteem, and ultimately is utilized as a treatment for noetic illnesses.

The World Health Organization (2018) estimates that 1 in 4 adults are putting themselves at risk of heart disease, cancer, dementia, depression and premature death. Tremblay et al. (2017) defines sedentary behaviour as activities with a very low energy expenditure such as sitting, sleeping and watching TV.

Exercise plays a beneficial role for many health concerns in general and improves quality of life

Exercise is a much needed aspect of people's lives and is involved in a variety of outlets. One major outlet would be sports. Sports, in general, produce valuable results for a person, some more than others. Cross country is an immensely beneficial sport due to the physical endurance developed, the mental toughness gained, and the lessons of teamwork received. Part of building a strong, athletic body is to have physical endurance.

According to Pimento & Kernested, “Physical activity enables children and adults to release tension, have fun, learn social skills, as they develop skills” (Pimento & Kernested, 2015, p. 342). It also contributes into building stronger heart, increases energy, better eating and sleeping habits. Other benefits are: posture, balance, stronger bones, joints, muscles, social interactions and skills development.

Staying sedentary for long hours puts an individual at risk of developing any of 35 possible diseases, including cancer and Type 2 diabetes. Fortunately, keeping active and staying healthy can be as easy as a daily SPA or Spontaneous Physical Activity.

At every age, exercise is important to keep a part of one's life. Directly, exercise improves your health and can help with the prevention of diseases such as type two diabetes and obesity. Not only that, but it can make your bones and muscles stronger. In the long run however, exercise will benefit your overall mentality. Exercise reduces stress, helps with depression, and creates a more healthy and happy state of mind. Personally, I enjoy doing gymnastics and playing soccer. Until last year, they both challenged me; my asthma would occasionally act up, but that would only push me to work harder.

Sedentary behaviour is often linked with many negative health repercussions such as an increased risk to certain chronic diseases. These include obesity, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Overall, sedentary behaviour is a major risk factor for inadequate health and an increased mortality rate (Wilmot, 2014). Sedentary behaviour spans from many daily functions such as sitting down, traveling in a car or screen time which refers to spending time on a screen based device (Zoeller, 2008). Sedentary behaviour is defined by performing low energy expenditure activities for a prolonged duration. If an individual is performing activities in which the metabolic equivalent is less than 1.5x their resting metabolic rate, they are

Merely not using a person’s body is harmful. Not being active results in a person’s muscles becoming weak and out of condition. The effectiveness of a person’s heart and lungs will decrease. A person’s joints will become stiff and can be injured easily. Inactivity can be as much of a health risk as smoking. In addition children have become extremely lazy with all the

Research suggests that weight training helps combat: osteoporosis, sarcopenia, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer (Winett & Carpinelli, 2001).

The benefits of physical exercise in humans far outweighs the harmful effects associated with exercise. A prescription of physical activity has been known to delay the onset or prevention of many chronic diseases. An improvement in heart function, lower blood pressure and improve functional capacity is noticed after just a few weeks of exercising. Physical activity will also result in an increase of lean muscle mass, promote weight maintenance, increased flexibility, and a generally stronger more fit individual. Conversely, exercise when preformed strenuously or obsessively can counteract such positive effects, bringing up some issues like oxidative stresses, injuries, and

The benefits that bring health practice of physical activity performed regularly and the risks involved in sedentary, especially of the elderly, lifestyles have been widely established in numerous epidemiological studies in recent years. However, the sedentary lifestyle of our society is becoming a constant threat to public health, which is carrying to professionals from the health sector to adopt targeted measures to promote the physical activity of the society in general and elderly people in particular. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of seniors who perform physical activity, although this continues to be scarce and insufficient (Gonzalo and Pasarin, 2004). Also, we are seeing a considerable increase in the number of older people in society and it is estimated that this increase is progressive in recent years. For the year 2050 is estimated the Group of older people has tripled. Public authorities therefore have a responsibility to ensure the health of the elderly, so that they can carry out his life with full autonomy (Merino, 2002).

Exercise may be one of the most important influences on your overall health to date. While the only benefits that are mainly focused on are the physical benefits, significant psychological impacts can also be linked to exercise. Although some of these benefits aren’t viewed with much enthusiasm, studies have proven that exercise can actually improve one’s quality of life greatly by increasing not only their physical health but their mental health as well. It is because of this that exercise is a