Fitness Book

A healthy heart is the key to a long life.  To accomplish this, every person should have interest in cardiovascular training, which includes exercises designed specifically to improve and maintain the heart’s health.  For this to occur, the body has to be able to get the right level of oxygen and blood to the muscles.  With physical exercise or activity, the pulse speeds up and breathing becomes deeper.  At this point, the cardiovascular system has kicked in.

We eat for many reasons. Sure, to survive we need regular doses of calories, but for most of us, eating has come to fulfill many needs. Eating behavior can be healthy, harmful, or even detrimental to our well-being. See if you recognize your habits.

Parents tend to take it for granted that children need to eat to grow and with all their wiggling around they will somehow get enough exercise. We think they get enough playing on the playground for the 15 minutes they go outside, and that the cafeteria provides well-rounded meals. We assume that when they go over to play at Skippy’s house that they’ll be running around for hours. But in this digital age, that may not be the case. Studies are showing that children are more sedentary than ever. The days of running to the neighborhood ballpark on a Saturday afternoon to pick up a casual game are over. And in some houses, the days of home cooked meals are too.

Feeling stiff? Are you huffing and puffing at the top of the stairs? Just because you are slowing down a bit and it is getting harder to get moving doesn’t mean you should resign yourself to a sedentary life. Seniors can be very active, and maintaining your fitness is vital to prevent new diseases from forming and to minimize the impact of the conditions you already have.