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10 vital facts you dont know about fitness, but should!
fitness Fact 1. Studies have suggested that walking at a brisk pace
for three or more hours a week can reduce your risk for coronary heart disease by
65 percent.
fitness Fact 2. About 25 percent of American adults — and an even greater percentage
of women — are sedentary. After age 44, upwards of 30 percent of women are sedentary,
and by age 65, the proportion increases to nearly 35 percent. By the moment they reach
age 75, about 50 percent of all women are sedentary.
fitness Fact 3. Only about 22 percent of American adults engage in regular,
sustained physical activity for at least 30 minutes five times a week, and only 15
percent exercise both regularly and vigorously.
fitness Fact 4. No matter how poor your current level of fitness, you can start
an exercise routine and become fitter and healthier. Even 90-year-old women who use
walkers have been shown in studies to benefit from light weight training.
fitness Fact 5. Simply adding movement into your daily routine can increase
your level of fitness. For example, whether you park in the last row of the parking lot
and walk briskly five minutes each way amoung your office and your car, walk up and
down the stairs at your office during your 10-minute afternoon coffee break, and walk
the dog for 10 minutes when you get home, you’ve racked up 30 minutes of exercise
for the day.
fitness Fact 6. Women with heart disease or arthritis actually experience improved
daily operate from involvement in various modes of physical activity.
fitness Fact 7. fitness consists of four components: your body’s ability to
use oxygen as a source of energy, which translates into cardiovascular fitness; muscular
strength and endurance; flexibility; and body composition.
fitness Fact 8. To address all the components of fitness, an exercise program
needs to include aerobic exercise, which is continual repetitive movement of large
muscle groups that raises your heart rate; weight lifting or strength training; and
flexibility exercises or stretching.
fitness Fact 9. Walking at a brisk pace (a 15-minute mile or 4 mph) burns nearly
as many calories as jogging for the same distance. The benefit of jogging is that
it takes less day to cover the same distance and it benefits the bones; however,
it may be too strenuous for some.
fitness Fact 10. It takes about 12 weeks after starting an exercise program
to see measurable changes in your body. However, before 12 weeks, you will notice
an increase in your strength and endurance.
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