Fitness, as its name implies, is to keep fit, and it is a way to enhance physical fitness through physical exercise. But there are so many ways to exercise that not everyone is suitable for all fitness programs.
The general fitness methods we have now can be divided into aerobic exercise, strength exercise and skill exercise. These three kinds of sports have their own advantages and disadvantages, so you should choose the one that suits you according to your own situation.
The first category, aerobic exercise and fitness. This category mainly includes jogging, swimming, cycling and various aerobic equipment exercises. All these aerobic exercises have a characteristic, that is, the form of exercise is not intense and the exercise lasts for a long time.
When we do aerobic exercise, glycogen is the main energy source in our body. After a long time, the main energy substance consumed in our body becomes fat.
In this way, if you are a fat person with high body fat content, aerobic exercise can help you quickly reduce body fat content.
We carry out low-intensity aerobic exercise for a long time, which can keep our heart beating at a high frequency for a long time, help strengthen our cardiopulmonary function, help the elderly and obese people keep healthy and enhance their exercise ability.
But the disadvantage of aerobic exercise is that the body will rely on this form of exercise for a long time. Once aerobic exercise stops for a period of time, the body will easily become obese. Especially marathon enthusiasts are more likely to get fatty liver.
The second category is strength training. This kind of exercise is the mainstream exercise in the field of fitness now. The purpose is to shape and exercise muscles and arm your body with muscles. The ultimate goal of this form of exercise is to increase muscle size and strength.
In fact, whether it is shaping or increasing muscles, it is actually the same. Many women are afraid of strength training and becoming muscle girls, but in fact, their plastic surgery training, including squat with bare hands, is aimed at increasing muscles.
We usually say that shaping and muscle training are actually one thing, but shaping is more concerned with body shape. Muscle exercise pays more attention to muscle mass and muscle strength.
The advantage of this kind of exercise is that it can increase the metabolism of the body, make people not easy to get fat, and also enhance muscle strength, so that people have stronger physique and sports ability.
But its disadvantage is that exercise is risky, and improper operation during exercise is more likely to cause injury. But exercise itself is risky, and running may slip.
Third, skill-based sports. Including dance, ball games, fighting and yoga. These exercises are more interesting than the other two, but less purposeful than strength training and aerobic exercise.
For example, if you want to lose weight, you want to lose weight by dancing or ball games, which is much more difficult than aerobic exercise. Because when you play ball, there is no way to compare the energy consumption pattern and total energy consumption with aerobic exercise.
But in the final analysis, fitness is for health. If you want to be healthy, you just need to choose the exercise mode that suits you and you like.