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    Throughout this whole year, there have been many physical as well as mental improvements that have come as an effect of physical fitness. For myself, I know that mentally I’m a stronger and more agile when it comes to my thoughts. And physically, I can see that my breathing has improved, and my stamina is longer. At the beginning of the year, I knew that I wasn’t in the best shape of my life. My breathing was heavy when I ran, and my lap times were, by far, not the greatest. I could see the room

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    Pilates is physical fitness developed in the early 20th century, which the intended to strengthen the human mind and body. The founder of the Pilates method is Joseph Hubertus Pilates. Joseph Pilates was born in 1880 in Germany, and he was very sick when he was a young boy. He suffered from rickets, asthma, and rheumatic fever (Isacowitz, 2006). With the intent to improve his heath, he studied and practiced Eastern and Western forms of exercise and he had worked so hard to improve his body, thus

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    schedule I was surprised when a saw I had a gym class on it. Then I realized that my first ever college lecture was Fitness for Life, bright and early on monday morning. But I did not understand that it was so much more than a gym class. Fitness for Life helps students gain a better understanding of overall wellness and physical activity, while balancing life expectations. Fitness for Life helped me be a healthier person. Wellness is more than the absence of illness. It is a constant and deliberate

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    Introduction The importance of physical activity remains crucial throughout one’s entire life. An individual's physical fitness begins at the early stages of youth and is necessary to promote a healthy lifestyle in their future. There is currently 38.1% of American children age 2-19 that are either obese or overweight. (Myoungock & Whittemore, 2015). Since obesity among children is a growing phenomenon, physical fitness can ensure that children are preventing diseases for their future. Today 70%

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    PETE 2000: Personalized Physical Fitness Plan Throughout the course of this class, different aspects of physical activity have been explored through discussion boards, weekly physical activity participation, and a two week log of physical activity and recovery. After completing these activities, I have chosen three physical fitness goals; increasing cardiac health by improving my cardio endurance, increasing muscle tone by improving my muscle endurance, and losing weight by improving my nutrition

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    Physical fitness is vital for many college athletes. Things like muscle strength, muscular endurance, anaerobic, and aerobic power are crucial to success of the athlete's performance. The vital physical fitness of the athletes is to increase training sessions before the season and during season. Some of these training session that college athletes participate in can lead to an increase in stress on certain muscles. These muscles weaken over time due to the athlete not giving a proper time to recover

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    increasing physical activity and physical fitness may improve academic performance. Evidence also states that dedicated time to recess in a school day, physical education class, and physical activity in the classroom may facilitate academic performance. - Research shows that cognitive performance and brain health are improved by single sessions of long-term participation in physical activity. The people who benefit the most are the ones who participate in vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity

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    growing, mental and maturation which are related to physical fitness. Physical fitness helps in the adaptations to the changing environment. WHO in its definition relates motor efficiency and health with physical fitness of an individual. Hence every individual is recommended for daily some physical activity for the proper functioning maintenance of health as well as mental development. Available literatures also show relation between physical fitness and anthropometric characteristics -body weight and

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    Physical education (often abbreviated Phys. Ed. or P.E.) or gymnastics(gym or gym class) is a course taken during primary and secondary educationthat encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting. Physical education trends have developed recently to incorporate a greater variety of activities. Introducing students to activities like bowling, walking/hiking, or Frisbee at an early age can help students develop good activity habits that will carry over into adulthood.

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    Get Fit: Let Physical Fitness Better Your Golf Game Although golf may not seem like a sport that would require a lot of physical training, it does. People all over the world underestimate the proper physical training golfers need for their golf game to be at the level he or she aspires it to be at. Golf had always been viewed as a game of leisure, but today’s golfer is leaner, stronger, and fitter. Without spending hundreds of dollars on a teaching professional, and endless stressful hours at the

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