E-Health Magazine February 2014 | Page 5

Types of Exercises 5 The Exercise is one of the most important things to keep your body in a healthy place. The way our body works, it needs to keep in motion for the muscles to relax, take a break once in a while and work in a good way once in a while as well. During your adolescence, most of muscles are still growing and getting stronger, that’s why you have to do exercise always. Now, which exercise is for you? Now, we’re going to present you with a few amazing options that might help you understand a bit better all of this craziness of exercise for your body. It’s greatly needed. ‣ Resistance Training ‣ Flexibility The flexibility exercises refers to any exercise method that helps you become more flexible over the time. there are some ways to do this, primarily though safe stretching exercises. ! ! Flexibility exercises benefits: • One benefit of the flexibility is that you reduce the risk of injury by making or improving your range of motion. With this you can require less energy than usual and make the same movements by also doing more flexibility. • You can also improve your posture, this also can reduce the muscle soreness after the exercise. • Doing flexibility excercises you can improve better the overall health and vitality, because • Doing flexibility excercises you can improve better the overall health and vitality, because you are improving the physical performance, this relax your muscles and get away the stress from your mind. • Another benefit is that you can reduce the lower back pain, this works because when your muscle are contracted whether sitiing or doing activities, they become more stressed. You have be done flexibility exercise every day. This would help you stay in a good balance. This can change your mechanics when performing movements and also try to hold the statis strech for no less than 20 seconds or if you can do more its better. This exercise is the base for your muscle to stay warm and it can be done every day as long as you don’t overstrech. E-Health Magazine: Skin & Skeletar-Muscular Systems Resistance training is a type of physical exercise specializing in the use of resistance to induce muscular contraction which builds the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles. When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including: • increased bone, muscle, tendon and ligament strength and toughness, • improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, • increased metabolism, improved cardiac function, and elevated cholesterol. Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental weight increases and uses a variety of exercises. You should do this at least three times a week. It really helps your muscles to build u and for you to have such a good shape! February 2014