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  2. Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans - Wikipedia

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    Muscle- strengthening activities are games such as tug-of-war,; resistance exercises using bands, body weight, or hand held weights,; climbing a rope, tree, or wall;, and doing sit-ups. Bone -strengthening activities are games that involved hopping, skipping or jumping, and running.

  3. Circuit training - Wikipedia

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    Circuit training is a form of body conditioning that involves endurance training, resistance training, high-intensity aerobics, and exercises performed in a circuit, similar to high-intensity interval training. It targets strength building and muscular endurance. An exercise "circuit" is one completion of all set exercises in the program.

  4. Indoor games and sports - Wikipedia

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    Each player has an ‘army’ of 16 pieces with which to fight a battle. There are six different kinds of piece – king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and pawn – and each has its own special way of moving about the board. If a player moves onto a square occupied by an opposing piece, that piece is captured and removed from the board.

  5. Bodyweight exercise - Wikipedia

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    Exercises focusing on the legs and abdomen such as squats, lunges, and step ups are recommended to increase leg and core strength, in doing so, reduce the risk of falling. [9] Bodyweight exercises provide multi-directional movement that mimics daily activities, and as such can be preferable to using weight machines.

  6. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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    This is a compound exercise that also involves the triceps and the front deltoids, also recruits the upper and lower back muscles, and traps. The bench press is the king of all upper body exercises and is one of the most popular chest exercises in the world. It is the final exercise in 'The big 3'.

  7. Water aerobics - Wikipedia

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    People do not even have to be strong swimmers to participate in water aerobics. The performance of movement while suspended in water where the feet cannot touch the bottom surface, resulting in a non-impact, high-resistant, total body exercise workout, is known as deep water aerobics. Benefits of this method include less stress on the back ...

  8. Mary Ann Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Sit and Be Fit has aired regularly on PBS stations nationwide ever since. [8] Wilson is the author of several health and fitness publications, including Chair Exercise Basics and has been featured in columns on health in the aging community. She educates healthcare and fitness professionals at national and international health conferences.

  9. Gordon's functional health patterns - Wikipedia

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    Activity exercise-whether one is able to do daily activities normally without any problem, self care activities; Sleep rest-do they have hypersomnia, insomnia, do they have normal sleeping patterns; Cognitive-perceptual-assessment of neurological function is done to assess, check the person's ability to comprehend information