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health & fitness

You Make The Promise;

We Will Help You Keep It!!

by Paula Allia - PT, DHSc, MTC, OCS

ifestyles are easy to keep. Resolution or golf. Interval training can help exercise the heart and the
adherence is much more difficult. muscles being used and even affect the body’s metabolism. The
LMore gym memberships are started choices are endless!
in January and over the next month or two When picking an activity to participate in, first and foremost,
adherence dwindles. What you thought make sure that it is safe for you medically. Keep the exercise real
you wanted to do is recognized more as a with expectations that hard work and dedication will pay off as
chore and eventually the desire to show up long as you start at the right level of fitness for you. If you have
and do your part to honor the commitment medical conditions, have them checked out first so that you feel
to yourself fades, then fails. To succeed in this endeavor, make confident in starting participation in an activity.
exercise like brushing your teeth. Cardiovascular training occurs if you exercise enough to get
Include exercise in your lifestyle as a must do. After all, your heart rate up in response to the physical stress. Over time,
exercise is indeed medicine to your heart, mind and body. Each the pulse will drop for the same exercise because the body responds
of these get stimulated with oxygenated blood flowing through physiologically to the demands placed upon it. Then to get the
your arteries while deoxygenated blood is carted back to the heart heart rate up to advance to the next level, the activity must be
to only then get pumped by the heart to your lungs for oxygen perceived physically as harder. Do not let your mental attitude
replenishment so that the final push out of the heart can supply about exercising obscure your judgement.
your body with what is necessary to thrive for your activity. Participation in a fitness program should include some sort
Everybody is at a different level both physically and of weight training. Weight training can be the stimulus that one
emotionally when it comes to exercise. There are various levels needs to increase muscle size, thus increasing strength. Muscle
of being in or out of shape. Despite where you start, the goals to fibers lie in series and in parallel. A cross sectional increase in
persevere and improve go hand in hand with each person. The muscles directly increases strength. Muscle fibers in series affect
body has tissue memory and likes to be in a state of homeostasis. the flexibility and elongation of muscles. If muscles are tight and
Advancement of the body to a higher level involves stressing the restricted, this will have an effect on the compression of joints. All
current state that the body is in. This stress can simply be the of this needs to be taken into account. What exactly do you need
initiation of a walking program which carries the weight of your to be a better you?
body for every step, every stride. While walking, blood is pumped You make the call, (239) 263-9348, we will help you find what
through the body, especially to the working muscles used in gait it is that you need. Finding a professional to guide you is a key
while also maintaining blood flow to the brain and other organs. component to your success when it comes to exercising. Many
Circulation is pertinent to getting nourishment to the proper physical therapists are starting to get into the fitness end of getting
places. In addition to circulation, as the effort increases, the pulse the mechanics right and keeping your body aging gracefully. At
will rise, the heart will pump more often to increase the oxygen Fitness Together, we have used this combination for over 17 years.
transport as respiration brings in more oxygen. This is all a process Find someone to help you succeed in your quest for a better image
that we tend to take for granted until the body does not seem of yourself.
to accommodate the demands placed upon it. When activated Good luck persevering! Remember, a strong positive attitude
properly the body learns to react and can propel the body to a new towards goal achievement will then make you want to then set a
level or an old level that you once had and have now lost. That is new goal to climb even further into better health, a positive mind,
the attempt at least….but you have to make the effort to do this. and certainly a better body.
Lifestyles need to include being physical in some form. This
could mean repetitively getting up and down from a chair, setting To Your Health!
up a walking program, participating in cycling, tennis, swimming

Fitness Together, 335 14th Ave South , Naples, FL 34102 - 239.263.9348 www.fitnesstogether.com/naples

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