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Exercise, Posture & Rehab

Exercise, fitness, posture & rehabilitation.

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Exercise helps people to keep their weight at an optimal level and can help to lower the risk of some diseases. Exercising to maintain a healthy weight decreases a person’s risk of developing certain diseases, including type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.

What are the benefits of regular exercise? It tends to increase appetite, reduce constipation, and promote quality sleep. The benefits of exercise diminish within months after a person stops exercising. Heart strength, muscle strength, and the level of HDL cholesterol decrease, whereas blood pressure and body fat increase.

 

The importance of good posture cannot be stressed enough in modern times. It extends far beyond our outward appearance and aesthetics. Posture refers to our body’s alignment and positioning with respect to gravity. Gravity exerts a force on our joints, ligaments and muscles whether we are standing, sitting or lying down. Good posture distributes this force through our body with minimal muscular effort and so that no one structure is overstressed. Sitting or standing with proper postural alignment allows us to work more efficiently with less fatigue and strain on our body’s ligaments and muscles.

Foam Rolling And Why YOU Need To Add This To Your Program
Foam Rolling or Self-Myofascial Release (SMF) is a safe and effective way to improve the tone of a muscles and break down muscle adhesion's (you know the feeling when you've smashed your legs on a big run or with lots of squats or lunges and they feel quite hard...
Barefoot Running
This is an article I got off the net reproduced from Celestine Chua’s blog. Celestine is an avid blogger whom I follow with a multitude of excellent and thoroughly researched articles around life, vitality and personal excellence. I started off with a slow and easy jog, taking cautious steps, one...
Eat & Exercise Your Way To Winter WellBeing
Do you or does someone you know mope around when it’s cloudy and grey, only cheering up when the sun shines?  There’s no doubt that the weather affects all of us one way or another. So to beat the winter blues & keep any excess kilo’s at bay, here’s some...
ergonomics
We are not designed to sit for long hours in one place! Yet many people work in jobs requiring them to sit all day, usually in front of a computer. If this sounds like you, consider how much stress you are placing on your body. Unless you're sitting in an...
Core Stability
Core Stability is becoming a more frequently used phrase word in the health, fitness and the  sporting industries. But when I look around at the quality of training that presents its self, I can see that training the "Core" it is a very misunderstood subject. What Is The Core? If you...