The concept of exercise prescription was first put forward by American physiologist Carpovici in 1950s. Since 1960s, with the development of rehabilitation medicine and the development of rehabilitation training for diseases such as coronary heart disease, people have paid more and more attention to exercise prescription. From 65438 to 0969, the World Health Organization (WHO) began to use the internationally recognized term exercise prescription. The complete concept of exercise prescription is that rehabilitation doctors or physiotherapists prescribe exercise types, exercise intensity, exercise time and exercise frequency in the form of prescriptions according to medical examination data (including exercise test and physical examination) and according to their health status, physical strength and cardiovascular function, and put forward matters needing attention in exercise. Exercise prescription is to guide people to have a purpose. A planned and scientific exercise method.
What is the exercise prescription?
Exercise prescription is to determine the type, time, intensity, frequency and precautions of exercise in the form of prescription according to the physique and health status of participants in fitness activities. Similar to clinicians prescribing and taking medicine, the difference is that one is taking medicine as a treatment, and the other is taking exercise as the main measure to keep fit.
Exercise prescriptions are generally divided into three categories:
1, fitness exercise prescription: Healthy people exercise with exercise prescription, with the purpose of strengthening their physique and improving their health level.
2. Competitive sports prescription: Professional athletes conduct sports prescription training in order to improve their professional sports performance.
3. Rehabilitation exercise prescription: Exercise prescription is applied to patients for the purpose of treatment and rehabilitation.
Exercise prescription generally includes five elements:
That is, exercise form, exercise intensity, duration, exercise frequency and matters needing attention.