***** 1 **** ***** ****** ********* ENGL 1101 March 24, 2013 The Effects of Exercise Exercise has countless effects on the human body and it plays an imperative role in one’s overall health and well-being. It provides numerous benefits for both the physical and psychological well-being. Exercise is something that can be done by individuals to help make them feel better overall. People exercise for many different reasons, for example: losing weight, defining muscle tone, or physical and/or psychological disease control and prevention. The most noticeable effect of exercise is weight loss.
This will later enable you to participate in harder workouts and exercise in the future. Muscular fitness is required in independent daily activities and unplanned emergencies. Fitness training tones one of the most important muscles, your heart. Both activity and fitness positively impact your physical and psychological well-being. How much activity is needed?
S.M.A.R.T S-Specific Description: Specific fitness is a task-oriented fitness programme designed to meet the requirements of a particular activity, occupation or sport. It mostly applies to athletes who play a particular sport because the awareness of specific fitness that can help them excel in their fields by directly connecting their workouts to the performance in their sports. Specific fitness can be detrimental when a person becomes too focused on it at the expense of overall fitness. M-Measurable Description: By doing each exercise, you must be able to measure it, how much have you done, etc how far did you run, or how long did you jump. By measuring these exercises you will be able to see your progression, this will help you beat your own best score in a time, helps to progress extremely, only by doing it regularly and with full give away.
As result of being stronger, I am able to increase my performance in sports. I also have more endurance to perform everyday tasks. While I strengthen my muscles and bones, it also will help prevent any injuries to myself. Weight lifting makes me feel better about myself. By lifting, I feel like I am benefiting myself in mind, and body.
New Fitness Habits and Benefits Healthy living is the result of developing healthy habits. Because I am striving to live a healthier life, I must add new fitness habits to my
Principles of Fitness Training These are training methods which improve the athletes performance. FITT principles: Frequency- This is how often the athlete will train Intensity- This is how hard the athlete works for each repetition, This can be increase by adding more weight to be lifted or increasing speed or gradient on a treadmill. Time- Is how long the athlete will train for per session. Type- Is the type of training they will use, this varies the exercises the athlete does. Specificity- This is when you improve the range of movement for a specific joint, you have to perform exercises that involve that joint action.
P1 Components of Fitness To join any service you need to have a high level of fitness, there are many components of fitness and these are categorized into health related and skill related. Health Related Muscular Endurance Muscular Endurance refers to the body’s ability to sustain repeated contractions over a long period of time. It is important for people who take part in sports where they have to sustain exercise for long periods of time. Having good muscular endurance allows muscles to endure long periods of exercise without becoming tired. It is essential for long distance runners to have high muscular endurance so they can compete in races such as the marathon.
Exercise improves mood. This can be part of the psychological aspect of exercise. Exercise is a great way to take off stress because all of the built up aggression or other emotions a person may have that can motivate them to have a good workout. Exercise also has lasting affects on mood because when a person exercises, over time, they should start to lose weight, get into shape, or tone muscle, which boost confidence levels and self-appearance. Exercise boosts energy levels.
The purpose of this phase is to recruit the fast twitch muscle fibers. To accomplish this, most exercises must be performed at near-maximum weight. However, other exercises are performed with little weight, but at a high velocity of movement. The endurance phase is employed for activities that require a high level of muscular endurance or general endurance. It involves high volume and low to moderate intensity.
“Sports psychology can help athletes looking to improve their focus and confidence” (Smith and Kays). Needless to say, confidence and focus alone can completely change the outcome of an athlete’s performance. “The mental skills in excellent performance are not just a single purpose activity” (Smith and Kays). Elite athletes recognize the many factors that are involved in sports psychology. “Sports psychology ranges from detailed attention to perceptual processes, to mental skills training, and a broad investigation of perfectionism, injury and eating disorders” (Smith and Kays).