My hamstrings don’t tighten up as quickly now when engaging in activities that required the extension of them. With increased muscular strength, regarding to the core for example, I have obtained better posture, something that will benefit me years to come. Pilates has helped with my level of physical activity which has in return increased the circulation of blood flow throughout my body. This allows for better oxygen flow and simultaneously better functioning of the brain, a key element in Pilates (mental strength). Pilates calls for an increased heart rate; therefore, the amount of calories burns increases, helping me to lose weight.
The lack of mobility can have a bad effect on service users’ physical and mental health. The service user may put on weight. This is because they would rely on their mobility aid getting them around everywhere and they wouldn’t be exercising very much at all. As they aren’t very mobile once they have gained the weight it would be very hard for them to lose it again. The service user is likely to develop a low sell-esteem.
Unlike muscle, however, bones typically will rebuild denser, but remain the same size where is muscles generally increase in size. Joints are also strengthened for exercises such as running or swimming and constantly contracting your joints therefore making them stronger and more flexible. Increased flexibility lowers risks of getting cramps while running or doing any other activity. Bones in your arms and legs are surrounded by muscles so when the muscles around them are
* Being overweight – this has negative impact on your overall health which can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and diabetes. * Having poor fitness – being unfit restricts your lifestyle and can limit the activities in which you can participate. It is hard to play sport well when you are not fit enough. * Can result in raised levels of cholesterol in adulthood – being overweight, unfit and having a bad diet can lead to raised levels of cholesterol which can block your arteries and cause heart attacks. 4.
The third main reason that people should not use steroids is because it causes many other health problems in their life. (That’s if the steroids don’t kill you first.) Steroids can cause depression, hostility and aggression towards other people, eating disorders, stunted growth in young people, unwanted body hair, acne and the risk of HIV, hepatitis B and C, if you are using a needle to shoot the steroids into your veins. Steroids also can make your muscle tissue weak. When people take steroids their muscles get used to it, and then if they stop, their muscles get very weak.
It can be said that younger people often don’t include older people which can lead to further disengagement. Older people that have restricted opportunities to interact with each other also suffer from a variety of health issues. This means that they are unable to socialise even more because they are physically frail and weak and therefore, struggle to leave the house to see others and socialise with them becoming increasingly ‘individual’ and less concerned with the expectations of others. Cumming argued that it was appropriate and healthy for older people to withdraw from others and disengagement was a natural part of ageing. A lot of various different issues occur when elderly people start to disengage with the people that are around them.
When performing low impact sports throughout life you are causing many different effects on the skeletal and muscular system, some positive and some negative. On the skeletal system when performing low impact physical activity you are helping to improve the density of your bones therefor making them stronger and healthier, doing this will help prevent the common bone disease osteoporosis. Osteoporosis leads to an increase risk of fractures on the bones and can also be found in all ages but is commonly associated with the older generation. Secondly doing low impact sports can improve the health and mobility of joints; meanings that they are able to obtain more weight with our as much strain placed on them helping to eliminate the risk of osteoporosis. Low impact sports will also help you improve the impact on your muscular system when taking part in physical activity, and example of this would be that it helps to improve the stability of your joints, therefor because of the regularity of doing the particular physical activity you will be strengthening the surrounding muscles.
Elderly people lose calcium and other nutrients. As the joints breakdown it can cause inflammation, pain, stiffness and deformity. It is important to take care when moving an individual to prevent any fractures occurring. Muscles in the body work like levers and allow the bones at a joint to work like hinges. Muscles will weaken with age which causes stiffness and weakness to certain areas of the body.
Muscular Dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy is a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move. People that have muscular dystrophy have missing or incorrect information in their genes, which prevents them from making proteins for healthy muscles. Muscular Dystrophy weakens the muscles overtime, so whoever has the disease gradually lose the ability to do certain things, like walking or sitting up. Some people develop muscular dystrophy as adults, or they start having muscular problems as a baby. There are several different forms of muscular dystrophy, each of which weakens different muscle groups in various ways.
Cartilage doesn’t have blood vessels, so it can’t heal itself. Damaged articular cartilage can irritate the joint, which may become inflamed and painful. When the injury is large enough, the cartilage no longer protects the bone underneath it; the pain increases, and if the injury is not treated it may get worse Humerus The function of the large head of the humerus is to allow for this great amount of movement. The humerus also provides various muscular attachment that provide for both extension and flexion of the arm. The distal end of the humerus articulates with the olecranon of the ulna and provides a very stable joint, which only allows for flexion of the arm and no extension.