Good physical condition is important not only among professional athletes, but also among beginners who are just starting their adventure with a healthy lifestyle. It is also important in everyday life - it determines our ability to perform basic activities - it allows you to climb stairs without taking breaks on each floor, or run to the bus without shortness of breath. How to improve your condition and increase the endurance of the body? What fitness exercises are the best?
What exactly is physical condition?
When someone sees an oncoming bus, then runs to the bus stop and does not pant like after running a marathon, it is said that he is "good condition". But what does that mean?
Physical condition is the current physiological state of the body, which refers to the body's ability to use oxygen. It has a genetic basis, but it can be modified by affecting endurance, which in turn is the ability to perform exercises of a certain intensity, despite the fatigue that occurs at that time.
Although creating endurance is a long-term process, the first effects of training, the purpose of which is to improve the condition, can be observed almost overnight.
Aerobic and anaerobic endurance
Since the physical condition depends on endurance, it is worth knowing something more about it. Can distinguish different types of strength, which is created in a slightly different way. Can be distinguished:
- Aerobic endurance, which is responsible for the functioning of the body during long low-intensity exercise. The aerobic endurance determines how effectively the body delivers oxygen to the muscles during physical activity. During this type of exercise, energy is transported as a result of aerobic transformations, and carbohydrates are burned first, and then free fatty acids. The aerobic endurance can be exercised, among others, during a quick march or run.
- Anaerobic endurance, which refers to high-intensity activities that are performed in a short time. It occurs when the effort is too much for the body, and the amount of energy needed is greater than the body is able to produce on its own. The development of the anaerobic endurance can be practised, for example, by performing tabats or intervals.
To increase the effectiveness of training and improve the physical condition, need to work on both anaerobic and aerobic endurance, which will allow performing both high and lower intensity efforts. It is also worth working on muscle endurance to be able to easily perform strengthening training.
The physical condition and the body's response to the undertaken efforts depends on both the state of health and the capacity of the lungs and the work of the circulatory system. In order to shape it, it is necessary to lead to controlled fatigue, what lead to supercompensation, or adaptation of the body to a given form of activity. It is also important to perform physical exercise regularly - only then can you support the achievement of the good condition.
What are the symptoms of weak physical condition?
Although it would seem that the good condition is needed only among physically active people who train in the gym or attend fitness activity, nothing is more wrong. Although it is then that can see that our condition is not in good form, the symptoms of the weak physical condition can also be observed in everyday life, while performing basic activities. Then it can come to:
- muscle tremors,
- difficulty in regulating and calming the breath,
- breathlessness, appearing even during a small effort,
- rapid increase in heart rate,
- muscle stiffness and pain.
