Have you been lax about your exercise?

If you’ve been lax about about your exercise routine and aren’t sure what you should be doing, new recommendations give adults and kids specifics on what they can do to reap important health benefits.

Adults need a minimum of 2 1/2 hours of moderate exercise per week, or one hour and 15 minutes of vigorous activity. And kids should get an hour of activity per day, according to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans announced earlier this month.

Those are the numbers the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services came up with after a two-year process that included having a 13-member advisory committee review scientific research on the effects of physical activity and health.

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It is Crucial that you have an outlet and remain Physically Healthy

Adding classes in yoga, meditation and other so-called mind-body regimens is just one way fitness professionals in the financial district are responding to recent economic uncertainties roiling their corporate clientele. Some are also offering shorter, cheaper personal training sessions and, in at least one health club, quiet discounts for members who lose their jobs.

Amid layoffs, concerns about staying buff could seem trivial. (Imagine the headline “World Markets Near Collapse: Muscle Tone Under Threat.”) Yet, businesspeople themselves wonder how a perilous financial climate will affect their physical fitness - and if exercise could help them weather hard times. -New York Times
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Regular exercise can reverse age-related brain decline, according to a U.S. cognitive neuroscientist.

Prof. Art Kramer, of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, says there’s substantial evidence showing the benefits of aerobic exercise and physical activity on such executive-control brain functions as task coordination, planning, goal maintenance, working memory and the ability to switch tasks.

As people age, a deterioration of white and gray matter in certain areas of the brain can cause cognitive decline, Kramer explained. He reviewed published research and found that several studies showed that regular moderate exercise that makes a person breathless increases the speed and sharpness of thought, the actual volume of brain tissue, and the way in which the brain functions. - The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging

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Give an Exercise Plan at Least 2 Months

Do you find yourself continually starting exercise programs only to quit just weeks later?
If so, you could be asking too much of yourself in terms of motivation.

Studies show that most people need to stick with a plan for 30 to 60 days before their commitment to exercise takes hold. Unfortunately, many of us give up sooner, discouraged if we don’t approach each workout with zeal.

Perhaps one answer is to look at motivation as another “muscle.” Just as biceps, abs and glutes gradually strengthen as they are exercised over time, so does motivation grow stronger with practice.

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Cardio Tennis Returns to Saw Mill Club with new ENERGY and a new FACE

Starting OCTOBER 6TH
Mondays from 11:00 -12:00 on courts 1 and 2

Join Senior master Pro, Steve Owens, Iva Gyurgina and Group Ex Director Kathleen Goldring

Fast paced, high energy tennis drills designed to increase your cardio experience on the tennis court.

Benefits of Playing Cardio Tennis

• Participants consistently elevate their heart rates into their aerobic training zone.
• It is much more fun than working out on a machine or other fitness activities.
• You get short cycles of high intensity workouts and periods of rest, almost like interval training.
• It is a fun, group activity where players of all abilities enjoy tennis together.
• While you are playing tennis, the focus is primarily on getting a great workout.
• You naturally improve your game because you hit so many balls and repeat various shots.

Energize Your Game. See you on the courts!
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Too Few Doctors are Prescribing Exercise a new study suggests.

Using data from a government health survey, researchers found that only one-third of U.S. adults with high blood pressure said their doctors had counseled them on getting regular exercise. But of those who did get such advice, 71 percent followed it — and had lower blood pressure than their counterparts who remained inactive, the investigators report in the journal Ethnicity & Disease.

The findings are based on a federal health survey that included 4,686 U.S. adults with high blood pressure. Of these participants, 33 percent said their doctors had told them to exercise regularly to help lower their blood pressure.

Dr. Josiah Halm, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and his colleagues suggest that doctors think about exercise as a prescription, and actually write down on a prescription pad the type, intensity and duration of exercise each patient should try.

SOURCE: Ethnicity & Disease, Summer 2008.

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