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Types of Workout Programs

Aerobic (Endurance) Exercise
Aerobic (Endurance) Exercise

Endurance exercise is one of the four types of exercise along with strength, balance and flexibility. Ideally, all four types of exercise would be included in a healthy workout routine and AHA provides easy-to-follow guidelines for endurance and strength-training in its Recommendations for Physical Activity in Adults.

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Aerobic Exercise
Aerobic Exercise

Aerobic exercise stimulates the heart rate and breathing rate to increase in a way that can be sustained for the exercise session. In contrast, anaerobic ("without oxygen") exercise is activity that causes you to be quickly out of breath, like sprinting or lifting a heavy weight.

Balance Exercises
Balance Exercises

Balance training is the challenging the body to maintain proper postural control throughout a series of demands that can be placed upon it typically while standing still or through advanced transitional movements. Balance exercises can vary complexity and the demand placed upon the body.

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Body Fat Composition
Body Fat Composition

Assessing body composition takes into consideration the distributions of lean body mass and fat mass. Lean body mass includes muscle, bone, blood and everything that is not fat. Obviously, it is better to have more lean muscle than fat. Determining your body composition will help you identify what you need to do to get the physique you want.

Cardiovascular Endurance
Cardiovascular Endurance

Training for Cardiovascular Fitness, Continued UNIVERSITY SPORTS MEDICINE Training for Cardiovascular Fitness What’s in it for me? Cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise: • increases your energy and stamina • helps control blood pressure • improves your blood lipid profile (cholesterol) • helps you burn extra calories to maintain an ideal weight.

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Flexibility
Flexibility

The best workout for increasing flexibility is one that will focus on stretching all of the important muscle groups that will be used in training and daily life in general. Improvement in flexibility can be made by just devoting about ten minutes per day to stretching.

Flexibility Exercise
Flexibility Exercise

The best workout for increasing flexibility is one that will focus on stretching all of the important muscle groups that will be used in training and daily life in general. Improvement in flexibility can be made by just devoting about ten minutes per day to stretching.

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Muscle
Muscle

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Muscular Endurance
Muscular Endurance

Muscular endurance refers to the ability of a given muscle to exert force, consistently and repetitively, over a period of time. It plays a big role in almost every athletic endeavor. You might think of muscular endurance as stamina. Long-distance running is a sport that requires muscular endurance.

Strength Exercise
Strength Exercise

Starting Strength is the place to crack into barbell training; it’s a system aimed at beginners but beneficial to all. Check out the program here. A lot of other good information about the program can be found here.

Strength Exercises
Strength Exercises

If you want to get stronger these are the five strength training programs you should be considering. If you want to get stronger these are the five strength training programs you should be considering.

Strength Exercises Make Your Muscles Stronger
Strength Exercises Make Your Muscles Stronger

Start your workouts with barbell exercises, such as the “big four,” as described above. Barbells let you load a lot of weight, and lifting heavy is the first step toward getting stronger. Once your heaviest strength exercises are out of the way, you can move on to dumbbell and bodyweight training.

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