Exercise

Exercise is bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health.

Exercise can also refer to the using of a power or right. Example: The president exercised executive privilege in the dispute.

Health

How to achieve radiant good health through exercise and natural means was Bernarr Macfadden's central message throughout his entire life. [1]

Exercise is health!

“There’s no medicine that’s more important than exercise,” Daniel Lieberman, chair of Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology Department.

Movement-cures, on the other hand, reveal their benefit after the end of a week or so—at first by improvements in the facility of the exercise itself, but soon also by indisputable physiological changes for the better. The appetite revives, sleep becomes quieter and more protracted, till the depressing feeling of helplessness gives way to the buoyancy of self-confidence. [2]

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. Plato.

Injuries

Consult your physician before beginning any exercise program. Be careful with your exercise goals and always warm up and cool down.

Most people know about runner’s high. But for most runners, injury is as much a part of the experience as euphoria. Studies vary widely, but it is estimated that between 30 and 80 percent of regular runners are injured in a given year. Shin splints, runner’s knee, iliotibial band syndrome, plantar fasciitis: For many years, everyone from coaches to biologists to casual joggers has accepted such injuries almost as a necessary evil... But a growing number of researchers, many of them at Harvard, are convinced it doesn’t have to be that way. [3]

Avoid high-impact aerobics. Most aerobics instructors and many students suffer injuries to their shins, calves, lower back, ankles, and knees because of the repetitive, jarring movements of some aerobics routines. If you have continuing pain during an exercise, stop and don't continue unless you can do so painlessly. Replace fluids lost through sweating. [4]

Fitness

Of all the ways to stay fit, walking is the easiest, safest, and cheapest. It can also be the most fun. [5] Excellent "aerobic" activities for building endurance include brisk walking, running, in-line skating, swimming, cycling, rowing, and aerobic dance. Recommendation: To gain health benefits, 30 minutes of moderate physical activity over the course of most days is enough. [6] Keeping an accurate progress diary during your training years is imperative. Without a physical assessment and a workout diary, one can never be sure if the path taken will lead you to the promised body. Results must be measured or quantified before and after start exercising. [7]

See also

• Bernarr Macfadden
• Alois P. Swoboda
• Yoga
• Naturopathy
• Bodybuilding
• Sports, exercise and diet|

External links

• PHYSICAL CULTURE WITH RESISTING EXERCISES By Bernarr Macfadden.
• The Golden Age of Iron Men
• Health & Strength or Practical Athletics for Busy People Alex Whitely - 1891, Inventor of the Whitely Exerciser.
• GIMNASIA, ENERGIA Y SALUD. DR. ADRIAN VANDER In Spanish.
• Obesity? Diabetes? We’ve been set up. Harvard Science.
• Chasing down a better way to run.
• What's Good About Swimming.
• Fitness Fact or Fiction?