Exercises: jogging, swimming and aerobics

Doing exercise is a method to keep the body healthy and fit. Many busy people spare their time to have some exercise to keep them fresh in doing the activities. The evidence shows that people who have exercise regularly will have a longer life because their health is kept and protected from any disease. It is different from those ones who never do exercise. Not few people also experience the health problem because they never have exercise. Research also proves that active people have about 30% of longer life than those inactive ones. In a real life, it can be seen that some people are suffered from heart attack, over weight and many more health problems. In this case, the exercise is very needed by human body for the sake of the life. Actually, there are so many kinds of exercises that many people join and the most famous exercises which most people have are jogging, swimming, and aerobics. Those three exercises have different benefits depend on the way the people need. Below are the different advantages of those exercises.

The first exercise is jogging. The most powerful benefit of jogging is protecting people from heart disease. Nowadays, not few people are suffered from cardiovascular disease which makes them lose their lives. Jogging can strengthen and also improve the cardiovascular fitness. Do jogging regularly improves blood circulation, then it will carry the oxygen and nutrition to the whole body. This is the most effective method to keep the heart healthy. One indicator that measures the health of heart depends on the pulse rate, because it determines the weakness or the strength of the heart that people have. The other examples are preventing people from overweight. Mostly in a developed country like America, many people are suffered from overweight. Jogging is the way out, because it burns the fat and helps people stay fit. About how much the fat is burnt depends on how far they jog. As long as they do jogging further, the fat will be lost. To lose a pound of fat per week, people need to jog around 11 mile and it needs six hours. Jogging also improves the metabolism in human body which will balance the fat. Then, Jogging also prevents people from cancer. Experts confess that do jogging regularly will help people avoid some kinds of cancer diseases like colon, breast and lungs cancer. The recent research of British Journal of Cancer states that people who do jogging regularly five to six hours per week will have 24% lower risk of colon cancer than those who have only thirty minutes per week. Moreover, jogging also improves the confidence. Jogging will bring a person to the happiness, friendship and social interaction. In this case, a person who does jogging will lose his or her depression. The United Kingdom’s Department of Exercise and Health suggested that this exercise is a treatment for relaxing one’s mind from pressure and depression. It can be seen when person has a tension due to his or her job or a personal problem, he or she tends to be moody, listlessness and lethargy. Through jogging, it helps improve the passion and spirit which make a person becomes more confident. Thus, by doing exercise like jogging, many benefits will be gained to improve a healthy life. The joggers will be free from heart attack, overweight, many kinds of cancer and also the confident improvement. So, it can be seen that jogging will reduce people’s death rate.

 

The second exercise which is done by people is swimming. Swimming also has many benefits as jogging. For those people who do not like an exercise that causes sweat, swimming is the best way to be done. This exercise has low risk and it can be done by all ages. It involves the whole body including arms, back and shoulders. But noted that one’s who has asthma, first contact it with the doctor. According to the Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA), swimming can be done by infants when they reach the age of four months. It will help them improve their immune system and bonding to occur with the primary caretaker. The water activity for children is better than any other exercise because the water will stimulate the sensor intensively for those ones who have disabilities. In this case, swimming of course has a wider scope. As well as jogging, swimming also helps people reduce the stress. A survey which was done worldwide, nearly 4,000 swimmers confessed that getting in touch in the pool is the perfect way to unwind. 74% people agreed that swimming helps release their stress and tension, while 68% said that being in the water helps them get better and 70% felt that swimming could refresh their mind and mental. Swimming also strengthens the muscles. It can be seen that swinging the body in the water is heavier than in the air, the swimmers must work harder to move themselves and it looks like they do exercise with a certain weight of some objects on the land, according to Zoe Cooper, Development Manager of the Swimming Teachers Association. Then, swimming for half an hour and three to four times a week, combined with eating a balanced low-glycaemic index (GI) diet, has been shown to control blood sugar levels, according to the Amateur Swimming Association, the English national governing body for swimming. In this case, swimming is also a beneficial method to avoid the sugar level in human body. This exercise also has special movements that will train the certain parts of human body. For example, the front crawl. This movement makes a faster swimming because it involves the powerful speed to move. By moving the rapid movement of the arms, swinging from above the head and down to the side of the body, the swimmers will tap the twitch of the muscles which leads to the speed of swimming. Another one is bearstroke which involves the movement of the lower to the upper body. This movement usually strengthens the cardiovascular, but this stroke is not performed at a fast speed. The main muscles which are used to this stroke involve shoulders, chest and arms. Thus, the swimming exercise is the great idea to be done, because it has wider atmosphere which can be even done by infants. This exercise involves all parts of the body and its benefits are surely great.

The last one is aerobics. It is a physical exercise that is conducted by combining the rhythmic exercise with some stretching and a routine training to build all fitness elements. The aerobics involves the flexibility, strength of muscles and cardiovascular. Many people do aerobics because it can be done at home or in a group with a professional instructor. Mostly for those people who have a responsibility of caring a baby and leave home, this exercise can simply be done. Aerobics can be with music or a CD which increases the people’s interest. The benefits of aerobics are not inferior to the other exercises, including jogging. The main specialty of this exercise is about the muscles’ flexibility, it insists the stretching of muscles in the body to make them flexible and not stiff. This movement is very useful to avoid cramps. According to the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine, it is recommended that 30 minutes of doing aerobics exercise during five days a week or 20 minutes of high intensity aerobics exercise in three days a week will maintain the health and reduce the chronic disease. Aerobics will help control the blood sugar and the blood pressure, for those people who have a coronary disease, this exercise is helpful. Other several benefits of aerobics is helping reduce the weight, this exercise also insists the agility in moving the body which also helps strengthen the heart and increase the stamina. And the studies also show that around 19 million Americans experience depression every year, and then, through this exercise, it will increase the confidence. It is very useful for emotional stability and brain function. It means that aerobics can reduce people’s depression. Thus, this fun exercise is one of the best exercises that people do to keep their health. Moreover, by listening to the instructor or a tape and wacthing a video CD, aerobics becomes more fun than any other exercises.

It can be concluded that those three exercises have so many benefits for human body to stay healthy. Each of those exercises has  different specialties based on which one people like most. Jogging keeps body fit and avoid the heart disease, swimming covers a wide atmosphere of all ages, even infants, while aerobics can be done by music and a CD. Thus, by doing these exercises, people will have healthy habits.