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health & fitness setting up a walking program, participating in cycling, tennis,

swimming or golf. Interval training can help exercise the heart Join Us In Celebrating
and the muscles being used and even affect the body’s metabolism.
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You Make The Promise; When picking an activity to participate in, first and foremost, make

sure that it is safe for you medically. Keep the exercise real with
WE WILL HELP expectations that hard work and dedication will pay off as long as
you start at the right level of fitness for you. If you have medical
YOU KEEP IT!! conditions, have them checked out first so that you feel confident
in starting participation in an activity.
Cardiovascular training occurs if you exercise enough to get your
by Paula Allia - PT, DHSc, MTC, OCS heart rate up in response to the physical stress. Over time, the
pulse will drop for the same exercise because the body responds
ifestyles are easy to keep. Resolutions, physiologically to the demands placed upon it. Then to get the
on the other hand, are much more heart rate up to advance to the next level, the activity must be
L difficult to adhere to. More gym perceived harder physically. Do not let your mental attitude
memberships are started in January and over about exercising obscure your judgement.
the next month or two adherence dwindles.
What you thought you wanted to do is
recognized more as a chore and eventually
the desire to show up and do your part to honor the commitment
to yourself fades, then fails. To succeed in this endeavor, make
exercise like brushing your teeth.
Include exercise in your lifestyle as a must do. After all, exercise
is indeed medicine to your heart, mind and body. Each of these
get stimulated with oxygenated blood flowing through your
arteries while deoxygenated blood is carted back to the heart
to only then get pumped by the heart to your lungs for oxygen
replenishment so that the final push out of the heart can supply
your body with what is necessary to thrive for your activity.
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Everybody is at a different level both physically and emotionally
when it comes to exercise. There are various levels of being in or
Participation in a fitness program should include some sort of weight
out of shape. Despite where you start, the goals to persevere and
training. Weight training can be the stimulus that one needs to
improve go hand in hand with each person. The body has tissue
increase muscle size, thus increasing strength. Muscle fibers lie in
memory and likes to be in a state of homeostasis. Advancement
series and in parallel. A cross sectional increase in muscles direct
of the body to a higher level involves stressing the current state
increase strength. Muscle fibers in series affects the flexibility and
that the body is in. This stress can simply be the initiation of
elongation of muscles. If muscles are tight and restricted, this will
walking program which carries the weight of your body for every The American Cancer Society’s signature Naples event!
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that we tend to take for granted until the body does not seem to into the fitness end of getting the mechanics right and keeping your body
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the attempt at least….but you have to make the effort to do this. Good luck persevering! Remember, a strong positive attitude towards Jennifer McCurry, Vice-Chair
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