To obtain the optimum health, you should have an understanding of the balance of everything, including the balance between exercise and eating or the calorie intake. Most often than not, people exercise with the notion to lose weight. There are a lot of misconceptions about this. Most people would think that It is okay to eat a lot so long as you exercise. But based on our observation, we eat a lot than exercise. Hence, this lesson would like to balance your exercise with that of the calorie intake.

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A. Exercise

Exercise is a voluntary movement at a rate dependent on the muscular stamina or endurance. We exercise for several reasons but ultimately, exercise will enhances overall health and wellness.

However, when you start to engage in exercise you have to be clear of your goal. It can be, maintaining a weight, losing weight or gaining weight or in other instances recover from injury.

Studies regarding exercise’s affect to aging, mental health, cognitive function is well documented. The movement executions that you have been doing in this class are covertly leads one to form a habit to exercise. Your adherence to the program revealed here are essential for you to enhance your over-all well-being.

Three most important Exercise

1. Endurance / Aerobics Exercise

The aerobic exercises are those exercise that speed up your heart rate and your breathing. It makes your heart beats faster to pump more blood to the body parts for use. Your blood carries the oxygen and nutrients necessary to keep your body make energy necessary to continue moving. In this way, your heart and blood vessels become stronger is resilient to stressors

2. Strength Exercises

One of the characteristics of our muscles is its plasticity. This means that our muscles will adapt on the way you use it. Also, the more you use your muscles the more stronger it gets. Exercise makes it stronger. Exercise program can maintain muscle strength which contributes to maintaining posture even when you age. The Strength exercises you have been engaging in the past lessons are just some of the exercises that strengthen not only your muscles but your bone as well.

3. Flexibility Exercises

To maintain the elasticity of our muscles we need to engage in flexibility exercises. Our muscles tend to shorten if not used and will lose its elasticity. Tendons are also affected when muscle’s elasticity is weak, hence exercise program should include flexibility or stretching exercises. Flexibility exercises lessen the risk of muscle cramps and pain, strains, join pains, and falling. Just always remember to warm up before you do your stretching exercises. Dynamic and static stretches will always work for you.

B. Calorie Intake

For any exercise program, for whatever goal, it should be coupled with a balanced diet that provides the needed calories for the body to use during physical activity. Below is the estimated calorie intake needed per day, by age, sex and physical activity. There are smartphones application that will give you an idea on how many calories certain food contains. You can use those to stay conscious of your calorie intake.