Exercise
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The word exercise can mean :
- Things you do to try to learn something.
- Moving your body to make it stronger or better at doing something. This is called physical exercise.
[edit] Physical exercise
People do physical exercise to get strong and healthy or stay strong and healthyphysical fitness. There are three types of exercise:
- Flexibility exercises help your body be able to reach farther and bend better.
- Aerobic exercises help your body work hard for a long time.
- Anaerobic exercise, like lifting weights, make your arms and legs stronger.
Exercise can be an important part of physical therapy, weight loss, or sports performance.
Exercise can be fun, but be sure to do what you like and eat enough calories, so when you do exercise you are building up muscles, not breaking them down for fuel. Carbohydrates are muscle-sparing; and if you do not get enough calories overall and you burn muscles up with the fat to make up the deficit.
[edit] Exercise benefits
Regular exercise has been shown to help high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and depression, among others.
[edit] Types of physical exercise
- walking
- running
- yoga
- aerobics
- bodybuilding
- calisthenics
- sport
- weight training