Stretching is a form of exercise that helps in warming up the body before the main course of exercise. The main objective of stretching is to ensure a gentle lengthening of the muscles of the body. Stretching is essential before or after any form of exercising. It also improves the elasticity and flexibility of the tissues. The activity of stretchi...
In the busy life the human being hardly gets time for entertainment. Watching television is a mode of entertainment. Due to busy schedule people don’t get time for exercising also which is necessary for good health. Skipping is a good exercise to remain healthy. Regular skipping will burn the calories and the person will not put on extra weight and...
A good way to get an aerobic exercise is to use a rowing machine. And rowing while watching TV can be fun. Rowing moves one’s body through a wider range of motion than most other activities. It allows one to stretch his muscles and rotate his joints. Exercise rowing machines build muscular strength and endurance by working out muscles in arms, legs...
Qi-gong means Energy Cultivation. It is a part of Chinese medicine. Qi means breath in Mandarin Chinese and gong means work or technique. It involves the coordination of various breathing patterns with some physical motions of the body. Qi-gong is carried out mostly for health maintenance but some use it as a therapeutic intervention. There are abo...
Push ups also known as press ups is one of the most common form of free hand exercises. It is basically a strength training exercise that is performed in a prone position, where the performer while lying in the horizontal and face down, raising and lowering the body using the arms. Push ups are very effective in developing the pectoral muscles and ...
Punching is a light for of exercise mainly derived from its father boxing. Punching as a physical training is mainly done in order to increase for improving the three areas mainly physical strength, cardiac fitness, and the punching techniques. In terms of martial arts and fighting punching is a strike that is made using the hand closed into a fist...
Research shows that playing with the pets will help the person to remain healthy at the later years of life. These research shows that if elder person or children play with the pets then they less likely to become allergic to them as their immune system will become strong. The body of kids will learn to fight with the germs that they can catch whil...
It is not necessary to warm up only before participating in sports or exercising, even though they are traditionally done like that. The sole purpose of warm up is to gradually increase the intensity in the physical activity. Likewise before running or playing an intense sport a slow jog to warm the muscles and increase the heart rate. However the ...
Jumping jack is a basic form of exercising method that helps in keeping the body in proper fitness. Jumping Jack is also popular by the name of side straddle. The physical exercise is performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread and the hands touching overhead and then returning to their original...