Benefits of Exercise
True or False: Exercise lowers the risk of heart disease?
True! Exercise elevates your heart rate increasing blood flow and oxygen levels in your body. If you consistently exercise, you’ll lower your blood pressure and cholesterol which lowers your overall risk of heart disease.
This type of exercise increases your heart rate and breathing, which has great benefit to your heart, lungs and blood circulation. This exercise also builds up your stamina so you’re able to exercise longer and less likely to be out of breath.
Endurance Exercise ( aerobic exercise)
True or false: You should not keep track of how you feel during an exercise.
False! If exercise exercises are difficult, consider lowering the intensity. They are easy to complete, consider challenging yourself by slowly building up your intensity.
We use hand weights for this type of exercise.
Cardio, Upper Body Strengthening
True or false: exercise, lowers your fall risk by improving your balance and strengthening muscles.
True!
True or False : Exercise does not aid in controlling blood sugar and insulin?
False! Exercise lowers blood sugar levels, and if you follow a consistent routine, your body will have an improved response to insulin, reducing the risk of type two diabetes or making it easier to manage if you have it.
Name an example of Endurance Exercise (Aerobic)
Walking, running, dance, swimming, riding a bike, stair, climbing, walking on an incline, playing games that involve rigorous movement, such as tennis or basketball, yard work , housework.
True or false: You do not need to talk with your doctor before participating in an exercise program.
False! It is always recommended to consult with your doctor before participating in any exercise program.
We start and finish each exercise routine with this.
Flexibility/ Stretching
True or false: Exercise has no impact on your sleep pattern.
False! Regular exercise helps you fall asleep, faster, and sleep throughout the night.
True or False: Exercise has no impact on a persons mood.
False! Exercise causes your body to produce endorphins, which make you feel more relaxed, making it easier for you to manage stress and reduce emotional challenges, such as depression or anxiety.
This type of exercise makes the muscles in your body stronger.
Strength exercise: stronger arms, make it easier for you to carry things while stronger legs, hips, and core muscles help you to maintain your balance and reduce the likelihood of falling. Experts recommend working major muscle groups at least twice a week, ensuring you wait at least a day before reworking the same muscles.
True or False: It is OK to push past any unusual pain in your joints or muscles while you exercise.
False! If you feel any unusual pain in your joints or muscles, while you exercise, do not continue the exercise.
This exercise incorporates mindfulness and breathing.
Yoga
True or false: exercise helps you live longer.
True! Regular exercise, lowers the risk of several of the leading causes of death, including heart, disease and cancers, which makes it more likely you will live longer, and also lengthens teleomeres in the cells which is associated with longevity.
True or False: Exercise helps to maintain brain health as you get older?
True! Proteins and chemicals released during exercise help improve the brains structure and function, which helps maintain your brains ability to think learn and remember things as you get older.
Name an example of strength exercises
Lifting weights, resistance, bands, weight machines.
True or False: if you have limitations in joint mobility, only move within a range of motion that is comfortable for you when exercising.
True!
We called this leg day…
Lower Body Strengthening
Name an example of a flexibility exercise that we do during BFit.
Calf stretch, ankle stretch, neck stretch, shoulder stretch, hamstring stretch.
True or False: Exercise increases and maintains muscle strength, and bone density and lowers your risk of cancers.
True! regular strength training exercise helps to improve your strength and prevent bone density loss and muscle atrophy associated with getting older. The risk of cancer is including colon, breast, uterine, and lung cancer are reduced when you commit to a regular exercise routine.
This type of exercise reduces your risk of falling by improving coordination and strengthening specific muscle muscles.
Balance Exercises
True or false: you should push through even when feeling fatigued until the timer is up.
False! If you feel fatigued before the timer is over, stop and rest in between and hydrate!
We meet once a week and have a designated club designed for this activity.
Walking Club!
Name an example of the strength exercises we do during B fit.
Lifting weights, using resistance bands, weight machines.