Owner`s manual

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TRAINING GUIDELINES
Exercise is one of the most important factors in the overall health of an individual.
Listed among its benets are:
•Increasedcapacityforphysicalwork(strengthendurance)
•Increasedcardiovascular(heartandarteries/veins)andrespiratoryeciency
•Decreasedriskofcoronaryheartdisease
•Changesinbodymetabolism,e.g.losingweight
•Delayingthephysiologicaleectsofage
•Reductioninstress,increaseinself-condence,etc.
ere are several components of physical tness and each is dened below.
STRENGTH
e capacity of a muscle to exert a force against resistance. Strength contributes to power and speed.
MUSCULAR ENDURANCE
e capacity to exert a force repeatedly over a period of time, e.g. it is the muscular endurance of
your legs to carry you 10 km without stopping.
FLEXIBILITY
e range of motion of your joints. Improving exibility involves the stretching of muscles and
tendons to maintain or increase suppleness, and it provides increased resistance to muscle injury or
soreness.
CARDIO-RESPIRATORY ENDURANCE
emostessentialcomponentofphysicaltness.Itistheecientfunctioningoftheheartand
lungs.
AEROBIC FITNESS
Is an exercise of relatively low intensity and long duration, which depends primarily on the aerobic
energy system. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's metabolic
or energy-generating process. Many types of exercise are aerobic, and by denition are performed at
moderate levels of intensity for extended periods of time.
ANAEROBIC TRAINING
Is an exercise intense enough to trigger anaerobic metabolism. is means “without oxygen” and
istheoutputofenergywhentheoxygensupplyisinsucienttomeetthebody’slongtermenergy
demands. (For example, a 100 meter sprint.)