Body conditioning exercises combine high-intensity exercises with minimal rest to maximise the benefits of the exercise. These can be any form of exercise, and for example can include cardio exercise which burns fat and resistance training in order to tone your muscles.
Cardio (or aerobic) exercise
It is advised that adults do at least between 150 and 300 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week, as this form of exercise strengthens their cardiovascular and respiratory systems. This can decrease the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and depression. Cardio exercise is also a very important part of weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight.
The main purpose of cardio exercise is to increase cardiovascular endurance. Cardio activities include running, climbing stairs, swimming or cycling. It can help you lose weight, maintain a healthy weight and strengthen your heart and increase stamina.
Anaerobic Conditioning
Anaerobic exercise, sometimes referred to as metabolic conditioning, is about short intense workouts. These workouts use fast-twitch muscle and include activities such as squat thrusts, and jumping jacks. Anaerobic exercise can help to increase your muscular endurance.
Strength Conditioning
Strength conditioning exercises strengthen the musculoskeletal system by doing body-weight resistance training or weighted exercise. Lifting weights or doing push-ups, squats, sit-ups and other body-weight exercises cause minor damage to your muscles. This makes them rebuild stronger than they were previously. Strength conditioning is a form of anaerobic conditioning.
Flexibility
Stretching exercises will help you to improve your range of motion and flexibility. Yoga classes are a great way to improve your flexibility but you can also perform stretching exercises on your own.
Body Conditioning Exercises
Body conditioning exercises work out the whole body. They are a high-energy and high-impact workout session. These body conditioning workouts can tone your body, improve your physical level of fitness and cardiovascular function. They can also help with relieving of stress and symptoms depression all while burning calories and losing weight.
Body conditioning exercises incorporate power, speed, mobility and flexibility. If you're looking for strength and resistance training, then body conditioning exercises are for you. (Source: https://trifocusfitnessacademy)
This is a great summary of the advantages of each form of exercise. My brain needs to convince the rest of me to get up from my desk and get moving!
Thank you. Yes, I'm not one to stand in judgment and given what's going on in the world, you can be forgiven for not having the motivation to move.
When our lives feel right and we have less stress to deal with, we will always feel more motivated to get up and move and to exercise. It'll come. I think your brain needs to resolve the issues it has to deal with first.
LOL, Brad stole my thunder. This blog reminds me that I cannot continue to resist exercise, anymore.
My body doesn't lie.
Thanks Tim. LOL, yes the body doesn't lie and now that we're in the throws of a pandemic, exercise is something none of us can resist.
There are things we can do at home, like climb the stairs, or do step, skip, jump. Anything that gets you moving.