Fitness

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:38:47 +0000

There are three kinds of fitness:

Aerobic fitness – the heart and lungs
Resistance fitness – muscular strenght
Flexible fitness – flexibility

Aerobic Fitness

Aerobic fitness refers to how high your heartrate goes when you exercise, and how long it takes to return to normal afterwards.

Take your pulse for twenty seconds and then multiply it by 3 to get your heartrate in beats per minute. You should be between sixty and ninety beats per minute.

Now find a step and do step-ups for 3 minutes at the rate of about one second per step-up and step-down. Then take your pulse for another twenty seconds and multiply by three to find your new heart rate.

Heart rate results:

160+ = poor
140-159 = fair
125-139 = good
125 or less = excellent

Also note how long it takes for your heart rate to return to normal. The fitter you are, the faster it will be for your heart to return to normal.

Resistance Fitness

For this type of fitness you need to do exercises for the upper body, abdominals, and lower body.

Push Ups

Start with doing as many push ups as you can in one go. Make sure your body is straight and hands under or slightly wider than your shoulders. Go down until your nose is nearly touching the ground.

0-12: poor
13-29: fair
30-45: good
46 plus: excellent

Abs – Crunches

Again, do as many of these in one go as you can. Lie on your back with your knees bent, hands at your temples and elbows out to the side. Gently curl up.

0-15: poor
16-30: fair
31-40: good
41 plus: excellent

Lower Body Strength

Stand against a wall with your legs at ninetly degrees and see how long you can do it.

Flexible Fitness

It is hard to measure this type of fitness. The testing of this type of fitness are weather you have a full range of movement of the limbs and spine.

Yoga – the five tibetan rites

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:53:00 +0000

There are many flavours of yoga out there, and even more yoga classes out there. There is a simple yoga routine that provides many benefits – not just the health benefits such as having more energy, flexibility, feeling healthier etc. but the fact that you can do it at home, at any time, it is not too taxing so ideal for beginners, and also it doesn’t take a long time to do it. Here is a good video demonstrating the 5 tibetan rites:

For in-depth descriptions about the five rites, how to do it and its history check these resources out:

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