Fitness for Life ( by Isabel Curini )
...Deriving from women body building, which was losing its popularity, fitness has recently become an official sport. As a performance sport, fitness requires specific native qualities, like any other competitional sport. The most important qualities are...
Fitness and Health ( by Isabel Curini )
...Fitness tries to make every exercise useful for health and body esthetics. The type of training that is recommended is the complex one, including aerobic and anaerobic exercises. While doing aerobic exercises, the body...
Fitness and Body Building ( by Gaby Munteanu )
There are statistics which show that, after years of training in body building, many of the persons who practiced this sport turned to fitness. The reasons of this change are different, from the most common ones, like the boredom which intervenes at a certain time, to health problems. It is well-known that body building training of anaerobic type is...
Fitness - Anaerobic Training ( by Gaby Munteanu )
...The purpose of anaerobic training programs is developing the force, the fortifying of the body or the muscular mass. There are situations when only force or muscle fortifying is intended. The typical example for these situations is...
Fitness - Aerobic Training ( by Gaby Munteanu )
Fitness in general includes both aerobic and anaerobic aspects. According to the priorities of the sportsman, one or the other of the two aspects will be emphasized, but the second one will not be neglected. The purpose of doing fitness exercises is...
5 Myths about the fitness exercises ( by Gaby Munteanu )
1. Sport is for professionals. This idea applies only in the case of performance sports. The native qualities required for professional sportsmen (speed, skills, specific height, etc.) can only be developed, they can't be formed by training. As long as the aim of a regular person is...
Breathing – an Important Factor in Fitness ( by Gaby Munteanu )
If we take breathing as a taxonomic criterion, sports can be divided in two big groups:
1. The first one includes all the sports that use the technique of respiratory stop or blocking. The most typical among these are force sports such as athletic weight throwing, weightlifting, body building, gymnastics etc. In short, we might say that here the anaerobic extreme is...
How to Exercise Correctly ( by Gaby Munteanu )
In fitness, like in any other sport, correct performing of exercises is essential. Even if a program is well dosed, divided and individualized, as long as the exercises are not done correctly, no one can expect to achieve the results he/ she expected. Moreover, there could be...
Increase your Fitness Program Efficiency ( by Gaby Munteanu )
What's most necessary for making a fitness program more effective is establishing a certain number of trainings every week. It is considered that the minimum number of trainings is two (anaerobic) and three (aerobic) every week. If they are combined, their number can be
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Outdoors Sports in Winter ( by Isabel Curini )
Outdoors sport in winter and, generally speaking, exercise during this season should be regarded more trustfully by sedentary people as well as by gym-addicts. Advantages such as reinforcing, maintaining and increasing health, characterizing outdoors exercise, do not cease during winter; on the contrary, they can...
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