Noun

Singular exercise

Plural exercises

exercise (plural exercises)

  1. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
    The teacher told us the next exercise is to write an essay.
  2. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.

Derived terms

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Thu Feb 11 08:28:54 2010

Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is performed for various reasons. These include strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance and for enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity. It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image. Childhood obesity is a growing global concern and physical exercise may help decrease the effects of childhood obesity in developed countries.

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Sat Feb 20 05:50:06 2010

What is the best exercise to loose all around weight?
Q. I havent been able to exercise for a while because of all the homework and places i have to go. I have been eating healthier, but i need to know what exercises would be the fastest/better exercises to loose my extra weight.
Asked by ashley_bruce13 - Sat Dec 2 15:05:44 2006 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Webballs has it...simply "cardio"...something that gets the blood flowing. My personal opinion is, if you are not sweating, you are wasting your time at weight loss. Factors to consider are: What are your limitations to exertion? such as diasabilities, age, current weight, medical, conditioning, etc. As to what you want to be doing to sweat: some run, jog, jump rope, box/spar, dance, etc. Definately consider proper equipment (shoes, weights,etc.) and techniques as to avoid injury. I recently started running the treadmill after yrs w/o running. I'm telling you I spent quite some time picking shoes that would limit the impact to my aging body. LOL
Answered by Scott S - Sat Dec 2 15:17:36 2006

What is the best way to exercise when youre un fit?
Q. Its been a while since I last did any proper exercise, now that Ive finished college I have all this spare time on my hands and would like to start looking after myself. I try to eat healthily most of the time, but like everyone else, am partial to the odd cake or two! I am 24, 5ft, 6 and my weight is a suprising 8.5 stone. I dont need to lose weight, but I need to do something about my fitness and suppose could do with a bit of toning up. For some one who gets puffed out when climbing the stairs and warn out just buy carrying heavy(ish) grocery bags I think its fair to say my fitness levels are incredibly low, not to mention embarrassing! Any fitness fanatics out there who can give me some advice on what exercises are appropriate for me? [cont.]
Asked by Karen B - Fri Jun 15 04:22:58 2007 - - 15 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Start by walking every day. Reduce your intake of starchy foods and carbs like white bread and soda. Strength training, starting out with 5lbs dumbbells is a good start. Cardiovascular exercise, while tiring, is the ultimate tool to get back into shape! Eat around 1500 to 1800 calories a day, with 35% of those calories coming from protein!
Answered by The Last Scion - Fri Jun 15 04:28:15 2007

How can I exercise in my apartment without being the obnoxious neighbor?
Q. I want to do fat burning exercise which requires a lot of movement, how can I do it at home. I live on the 3rd floor and don't want to be extremely noisy, the building has thin floors, when the people on the 4th floor walk, I can hear it, when they do something louder its annoying. I'm going to exercise during the day but I still don't want to be a bitch. I'm overweight and shy so I don't want to go out or to the gym, what can I do at home?
Asked by mumupie - Tue Sep 29 18:58:12 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I suggest you focus on changing your diet for a start which will have a significant impact on your desired weight loss. And also, if you live on the 3rd floor and don't want to go out, why not walk up and down the stairs to the 3rd floor several times daily - great exercise and you won't be outside! Jay
Answered by Jay Jacobs - Fri Oct 2 16:09:24 2009

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Exercise is the performance of some activity in order to develop or maintain physical fitness.

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  • If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
    • Henry David Thoreau, “Walking” (1862), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 209, Houghton Mifflin (1906)
  • Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.
    • Thomas Jefferson, Letter to his daughter, Martha Jefferson. (March 28, 1787) The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, p. 34, eds. E.M. Betts and J.A. Bear, Jr. (1966)
  • I get my exercise running to the funerals of my friends who exercise.
    • Barry Gray, New York magazine (May 19, 1980)
  • I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.
    • Anna Quindlen, Living Out Loud, p. 65, Fawcett Columbine (1988)
  • Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
    • Leslie Stephen, Studies of a Biographer: Second Series (London: Duckworth, 1902) vol. 3, p. 261

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