Tennis and fitness
Fitness and exercise
Cycling for beginners
Whether you're cycling to work, for exercise, or just for fun, the humble bicycle is an easy way to get more active. Here’s how to get started.
Health benefits of swimming
Swimming is a great low-impact activity you can do at any age. These tips will help you get started.
Tips for getting active
You don’t have to exercise to the point of collapse to get health benefits. This article shows you how simple it can be to get active.
Physical activity for seniors
If you are over 65, you should try to be active every day. Here are tips on how to stay fit and information about how much physical activity you need.
Running tips
Running can be a fun way to exercise. It can help keep you in shape and lose weight too. This article shows you how.
A guide to yoga
Learn how to get started with yoga, from finding a class to how it will benefit your health.
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Make Healthy Normal - Tips for overcoming barriers to physical activity
Research has shown that the more physical activity you do, the better! If you aren't sure where to start or regularly come up against barriers, here are some helpful strategies to consider
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School-age nutrition & fitness overview | Raising Children Network
An in-a-nutshell guide to nutrition and fitness for school-age children, covering healthy food, eating, physical activity and exercise for school children and tips for school lunch boxes.
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Physical activity and exercise for children
Here is trusted advice about how much daily exercise your child needs for good health and fitness and how you can encourage your child to be more active.
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Preschooler food and fitness basics | Raising Children Network
An in-a-nutshell guide that explains how to get preschoolers to eat healthy food and enjoy physical activity and exercise. Includes tips on dealing with fussy eating in preschoolers.
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Farmer fitness - Farmer Health | Farmer Health
Farmer fitness Farmers dont do as much physical activity as they used to, and need to include daily exercise to be more active to stay healthy. Build exercise into your daily routine, walk for short trips and leave the quad...
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Physical activity and diabetes
Regular physical activity is good for you for many reasons. It can help you to lower blood glucose levels, lower stress, lose weight, lower blood pressure and blood fats and is good for your heart.
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Arthritis and Physical Activity | myVMC
Exercise therapy has been largely under-prescribed by GPs up until recently. For many years, it was suggested that patients with arthritis should avoid exercise, as it was thought to further inflame joints. But recently there has been a change in opinion, with many scientific studies suggesting that regular physical activity can reduce joint pain and possibly increase mobility, making it easier to perform everyday tasks.
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Kids' Health - Topics - Fitness
Stamina (say sta-min-a), or endurance, (en-dew-rans) means the ability of your body to continue fitness activities for a long time.
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Pain & Physical Activity | myVMC
Pain is a feeling that arises from injured or damaged body tissues. Special nerve endings convert the injury into pain sensations. These sensations are then transmitted up nerves along the spinal cord.
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Keeping fit during pregnancy
During pregnancy your body goes through many changes to accommodate for the baby growing inside you. It is important to maintain your fitness and also to be aware of what you can and can't do.
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School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 | Cochrane
School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18
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Physical activity and enhanced fitness to improve cognitive function in older people without known cognitive impairment | Cochrane
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Interventions for promoting physical activity | Cochrane
Not taking enough physical activity leads to an increased risk of a number of chronic diseases including coronary heart disease. Regular physical activity can reduce this risk and also provide other physical and possibly mental health benefits. The majority of adults are not active at recommended levels. The findings of this review indicate that professional advice and guidance with continued support can encourage people to be more physically active in the short to mid-term. More research is needed to establish which methods of exercise promotion work best in the long-term to encourage specific groups of people to be more physically active.
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Aerobic exercise for women during pregnancy | Cochrane
Regular aerobic exercise during pregnancy appears to improve physical fitness, but the evidence is insufficient to infer important risks or benefits for the mother or baby.
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Aquatic exercise training for fibromyalgia | Cochrane
We reviewed studies on the effects of aquatic exercise training for people with fibromyalgia on wellness, symptoms, fitness, and adverse effects.
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Resistance training (such as weight-lifting) for fibromyalgia | Cochrane
What are the effects of resistance exercise training for people with fibromyalgia on wellness, symptoms, fitness, and adverse effects?
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Aerobic exercise to improve cognitive function in older people without known cognitive impairment | Cochrane
Aerobic exercise is beneficial for healthy ageing. It has been suggested that the increased fitness brought about by aerobic exercise may help to maintain good cognitive function in older age. We looked for randomised controlled trials of aerobic exercise programmes for people over the age of 55 years, without pre-existing cognitive problems, which measured effects on both fitness and cognition. The aerobic exercise programmes could be compared with no intervention (e.g. being on a waiting list for the exercise group) or with other kinds of activity (including non-aerobic exercises such as strength or balance exercises, or social activities).
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Exercise training for adults with chronic kidney disease | Cochrane
Exercise regimens are based on the frequency, intensity and duration of exercise training as well as the type of activity and the individual's initial level of physical fitness. All these factors have to be taken into account when aiming to achieve the goal with the regular exercise training and or rehabilitation.
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Review of physical activity among Indigenous people Reviews Physical activity Protective & risk factors Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
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Aerobic exercise training programmes for adults with Down syndrome | Cochrane
Many people with Down syndrome have poor strength, poor muscle mass, and high body fat percentage and so are disposed to cardiovascular health problems. Although physical fitness has been suggested to improve physical and psychosocial health for a variety of healthy patient populations, information about the safety and effectiveness of aerobic exercise for adults with Down syndrome is lacking. This review identified only three small randomized trials. The results showed that only aspects of work performance (for example, maximal test time, maximal distance at the end of the exercise test) were improved after aerobic exercise training programs. Further well-designed research on larger population samples is required to evaluate potential benefits for psychosocial aspects in adults with Down syndrome.
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