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.

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Mon Jan 11 02:47:42 2010

Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is performed for many different 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. 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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Tue Jan 19 06:53:03 2010

What is the best exercise to lose weight?
Q. I need to lose 1 stone i am 8 stone right now. I need to exercise but I dont know the best exercise to do. Can someone help me please! I dont want dietery guidlines I want to be safe and exercise!
Asked by StudioPink - Sun Sep 20 05:21:14 2009 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments

A. please do kapalbhati pranayam as advised by baba Ramdev in Astha channel for 10 minutes daily
Answered by ashish - Sun Sep 20 06:10:05 2009

What diet and exercise makes you lose weight very quickly?
Q. Can you tell me a strict diet and exercise plan to lose weight. I cant eat wheat or dairy and I dont like chicken or turkey or red meat. Ill have some wheat once in awhile. So what can make me drop in size??? Thank you so much also I have a gym membership, like to exercise but not run.
Asked by Lolli - Mon Oct 26 10:53:29 2009 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments

A. When you are losing weight, you should exercise and diet together. If you exercise without dieting, you will get bigger appetite, which will lead to increase of weight, or muscle grow underneath the fat layer, and make you bulkier. If you diet without exercising, you will become flabby and will have excess skin. For diet, go wheat free. No pasta, pizza, bread and so on. And no food after 7 p.m. People achieve marvellous results with it. Depending on your initial weight, you can drop upwards from 20 pounds a month. If you don't eat wheat then you don't eat all those sticky, fatty goey cakes, you don't eat junk food, and you don't eat biscuits. But your diet is still balanced. It costs nothing, and you… [cont.]
Answered by ny - Mon Oct 26 11:09:16 2009

What is the best routine for using exercise bike?
Q. I would like to start exercising on exercise bike each day, have on average 30 minutes free to do this. I already do other exercises like take dogs walk etc. I was just wondering how I can get the most benefit from using the bike. The exercise bike has a tension area in centre where you can have setting 1 - 14, 1 feeling very light and of course 14 being a lot of tension. Any suggestions on how to get the best use of the bike so I get the best work-out, for 30 minutes each day. Thanks
Asked by shaunybhoy - Sun Apr 19 21:42:57 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. You want to pedal at a high cadence 70-90 rpm's. You want to start out with 70 rpm's and a low resistance level for 10-12 min to warm up. Once you are warmed up increase the resistance to where you are breathing fast enough to still talk but not sing. Increase your rpm's to 90 and reduce the resistance if you need to catch your breath or your legs start to hurt. You can increase the resistance to a higher level for a short period of time and then drop back to recover. If you are not breathing hard or sweating you are not getting much out of it.
Answered by Bob A - Sun Apr 19 22:08:16 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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