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Outline of exercise
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to exercise:
Exercise – any bodily activity that enhances or log physical fitness and overall health and wellness. It is performed for various reasons including strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, as well as for the purpose of enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity.[1][2]
Types of exercise edit
Aerobic exercise edit
Anaerobic exercise edit
Strength training edit
Strength training (by muscle to be strengthened; (c) = compound exercise, (i) = isolated exercise)
- Abdomen and obliques (belly)
- Crunch (i)
- Leg raise (c)
- Russian twist (c)
- Sit-up (c)
- Biceps (front of arms)
- Biceps curl (i)
- Pull ups with a supinated grip
- Calves
- Calf raise (i)
- Deltoids (shoulders)
- Front raise (i)
- Head stand into Handstand push-up (c)
- Lateral raise (i)
- Military press (c)
- Rear delt raise (i)
- Shoulder press (c)
- Upright row (c)
- Extended length conditioning
- Forearms
- Wrist curl (i)
- Wrist extension (i)
- Hamstrings (back of thighs)
- Deadlift (c)
- Frog jumping (i)
- Good-morning (c)
- Leg curl (i)
- Squat (c)
- Lats and trapezius (back)
- Bent-over row (c)
- Chin-up (c)
- Pulldown (c)
- Pullup (c)
- Seated row (c)
- Shoulder shrug (i)
- Supine row (c)
- Lower back
- Deadlift (c)
- Good-morning (c)
- Hyperextension (c)
- Pectorals (chest)
- Bench press (c)
- Chest fly (i)
- Dips (c)
- Machine fly (i)
- Push-up (c)
- Pelvis
- Quadriceps (front of thighs)
- Frog Jumping (i)
- Leg extension (i)
- Leg press (c)
- Lunge (c)
- Squat (c)
- Triceps (back of arms)
- Close-grip bench press (c)
- Dips (c)
- Pushdown (i)
- Triceps extension (i)
Calisthenics edit
A form of exercise consisting of a variety of movements that exercise large muscle groups.
- Abdominal exercise
- Burpees
- Calf-raises
- Crunches
- Dips
- Hyperextensions
- Jumping jacks
- Leg raises
- Lunges
- Muscle-ups
- Plank
- Pull-ups
- Push-ups
- Sit-ups
- Squat jumps (Toyotas/box jumps)
- Squats
Additional calisthenics exercises that can support the muscle groups –
- Bend and reach (back and legs stretch)
- High jump (full body stretch)
- Rower (back, upper legs and abdomen)
- Squat bend (full body stretch)
Stretching exercises edit
Specialized training methods edit
- Altitude training
- Ballistic training
- Boxing training
- Circuit training
- Complex training
- Cross training
- Endurance training
- Grip strength training
- Interval training
- Plyometrics (jump training)
- Power training
- Strength training
Other edit
Exercise and health edit
Health benefits of exercise edit
- Aerobic conditioning
- Neurobiological effects of physical exercise - improves:
- Physical fitness, including improving and maintaining these aspects of it:
- Prevention – exercise helps prevent:
Dangers of exercise edit
- Cramps
- Dehydration
- Heat stroke
- Overtraining
- Sports injury
Terminology edit
- Buff –
- Recovery –
- Reps –
- Ripped –
- Sets –
- Warm up –
- Workout –
- Nutritional
- Amino acid –
- Creatine
- Dietary supplement –
- Energy drink –
- Formula –
- Protein –
- Snack bar –
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin B2
- Vitamin B6
- Whey protein –
- Biological
History of exercise edit
Exercise equipment edit
Traditional edit
- Barbell
- Bench
- Cable attachments
- Chin-up bar
- Dumbbell
- Kettlebell
- Metal bar
- Punching bag
- Treadmill
Other edit
- Abdomenizer
- Aerobie
- Air flow ball
- Atlas Bar ergonomic cable attachment
- Balance board
- Baoding Balls
- Battling ropes
- Bicycle
- Bone exercise monitor
- BOSU
- Bowflex
- Bulgarian Bag
- Bullworker
- Carva
- Communications Specification for Fitness Equipment
- Cybex International
- Elliptical trainer
- Exercise ball
- Exercise machine
- Exertris
- Fitness trail
- Foam roller
- Galileo
- Gamebike
- Gravity boots
- Grippers
- Gymnasticon
- Heart rate monitor
- Hydraulic Exercise Equipment
- ICON Health & Fitness
- Indoor rower
- Inversion therapy
- Isometric exercise device
- Jade egg
- Lifting stone
- Mallakhamb
- Medicine ball
- NordicTrack
- Outdoor gym
- PCGamerBike
- Pedometer
- Pole dance
- Power tower
- Power-Plate
- Range of Motion
- Resistance band
- Roman chair
- RowPerfect
- Scrum machine
- Slant board
- Soloflex
- Stairmaster
- Stationary bicycle
- Thighmaster
- Total Gym
- Training mask
- Treadmill
- Vaginal cone
- Wall bars
- Weighted clothing
- Wheelchair trainer
- Wobble board
- Wrist roller
- Yoni egg
- Barbell
- Bench (weight training)
- Bowflex
- Bulgarian Bag
- Cable machine
- Captains of Crush Grippers
- Dip bar
- Dumbbell
- Halteres (ancient Greece)
- Indian clubs
- Iron rings
- IronMind
- Kettlebell
- Leg press
- Power cage
- Shake Weight
- Smith machine
- Soloflex
- Total Gym
- Trap bar
- TRX System
- Universal Gym Equipment
- Weight machine
- York Barbell
Physiology of exercise edit
- Aerobic exercise
- Anaerobic exercise
- Exercise induced nausea
- Grip strength
- Muscle hypertrophy
- Overtraining
- Stretching
- Supercompensation
- Warming up
- Weight cutting
- Weight loss
Health monitor edit
Miscellaneous concepts edit
Significant people of physical fitness edit
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Erwan Le Corre
- Georges Hébert (b.1875-d.1957)
- Jack LaLanne (b.1914-d.2011)
- John Basedow
- Joseph Pilates (b.1883-d.1967)
- Lance Armstrong
- Robyn Landis
- Roger Bannister
- Susan Powter
- Michael Gonzalez-Wallace
Lists edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Stampfer, M. J.; Hu, F. B.; Manson, J. E.; Rimm, E. B.; Willett, W. C. (2000). "Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Women through Diet and Lifestyle". New England Journal of Medicine. 343 (1): 16–22. doi:10.1056/NEJM200007063430103. PMID 10882764.
- ^ Hu., F., Manson, J., Stampfer, M., Graham, C., et al. (2001). Diet, lifestyle, and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women. The New England Journal of Medicine, 345(11), 790–797. Retrieved October 5, 2006, from ProQuest database.
External links edit
- American College of Sports Medicine website