Fitness

Understand the benefits cardiovascular training has on your body and learn ways to include it in your exercise plan.

Understand the benefits resistance training has on your body and learn ways to properly include it in your exercise plan.

Understand the benefits flexibility training has on your body and learn how to perform it safely in order to avoid injury.

Learn the importance of having a strong core and good posture, and learn ways you can include activities in your exercise plan to help strengthen your core muscles.

Watch this video to learn how to ensure the exercise plan you have set for yourself is appropriate for you, and learn other ways to help keep yourself motivated to assist you in achieving and maintaining your goals.

You want to be healthier, but you just can't seem to find time to focus on fitness. Well, don't get frustrated. You don't have to join a gym or an aerobics class to be physically active. There are some simple things you can do every day to get in shape.

Swimming can be a wonderful activity for everyone. It's a great way to get exercise. It's a great way to cool down on a hot day. But it's important to remember the dangers linked to swimming. Here's how to stay safe in the water.

We all know exercise is important for good health. But some people feel pain when they exercise. If you have pain that starts suddenly, lasts only a short time and then goes away with rest, we say you have "acute" pain. Don't ignore it.

We all know exercise is important for good health. But if you live with chronic pain, exercising can be hard. Pain often robs you of motivation. Some exercises may be too painful. But even with chronic pain, most people can exercise safely.

Watch this video to learn the importance of, and ways you can get up and move throughout your day, on top of your regular exercise sessions, reducing the amount of time you spend sitting down.

Watch this video to learn the importance of adding time to your day to stand up and move around, as well as how to maintain good posture while sitting at your desk and the importance in doing so.

Though it takes time to warm up your body, it will help you operate at peak efficiency.

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Find out about the best exercise to burn calories.

Lack of physical activity is a major risk factor for diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis but the aging population finds it more and more difficult to incorporate exercise in their daily lives. This program gives you the latest on discovering exercise that works for you whether you are healthy or have limiting physical conditions. You'll learn the role physical activity plays in your recovery, how to keep exercising and how to make it part of your life.

People with chronic diseases like diabetes or heart disease need physical activity too but many of them may worry about becoming active again. In Part 2, learn what steps to take for those recovering or living with a life changing disease.

Even if people are otherwise healthy, wear and tear on bones and joints can make physical activity even more complicated. Even for those with problems there are ways to remain physically active. Learn more about this in Part 3.

Traditional fitness isn't the only way people can be physically active. In Part 4, learn what types of everyday activities count in the effort to remain physically active.

Learn how to strengthen important core muscles with abdominal crunches.

Watch how to correctly and safely do push-ups against a wall.

Learn how to correctly and safely perform angled push-ups.

See how to correctly perform the standing row exercise, using an exercise band.

Learn to do this exercise safely, using an exercise band.

Learn to safely do this exercise to strengthen your shoulder muscle in the upper arm.

See how to safely do this exercise, which strengthens the muscles in your shoulder and the upper arm.

Watch how to properly and safely perform the standing bicep curl.

Learn how to correctly and safely do this exercise, which helps to strengthen your lower back, your buttocks and the muscles behind your legs.

Learn how to perform tricep kickback/extensions, and what they do to strengthen the body.

Learn how to perform a bent over row to strengthen your back muscles.

Watch how to properly and safely perform a chair crunch to strengthen the muscles of your core.

Watch how to properly and safely perform seated leg curls to strengthen the muscles of the upper part of your leg.

Watch and learn how to properly perform seated leg extensions to strengthen your quadriceps.

Watch how to safely and correctly perform lat pull downs to strengthen the primary muscles of the back.

Learn how to correctly and safely do this exercise, which helps to strengthen the muscles in your back that support and protect your posture.

Learn how to properly perform a seated chest press, which helps to strengthen the muscles in the chest as well as the triceps.

Watch how to safely do this exercise, which helps to strengthen the tricep muscles.

Watch how to properly perform a leg press to help strengthen all of the muscles in the lower body: calf muscles, hamstrings, quadriceps, and gluteals.