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Lifestyle and Diet
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
It should be noted that a long duration of any exercise type is harmful to health and an excessive practice of sports and gymnastics can cause death. Many sportspersons or athletes have gone faint or died after long durations of hard competition or training. It is the same for construction workers. A break is necessary for any physical exercise or manual work. The intensity of most physical activity should be moderate. Examples include walking, running, skipping, playing on the playground, playing tennis, or biking. Vigorous-intensity aerobic activity like running, jumping jacks, and fast swimming should be included about three days a week for young people.
Management and finding common ground
Published in Kathleen M Berg, Dermot J Hurley, James A McSherry, Nancy E Strange, ‘Rose’, Eating Disorders, 2018
Kathleen M Berg, Dermot J Hurley, James A McSherry, Nancy E Strange, ‘Rose’
Exercising is often done by the person suffering from bulimia nervosa as a way of burning calories. In fact, it may be seen by that person as an alternative method of purging. It is important to help her to change that mind-set, and learn to exercise for pleasure rather than to burn calories. One way of doing that is to encourage enjoyable ‘activities’, i.e. walking, cycling, rollerblading, swimming, etc., rather than the typical ‘body-shaping’ exercises such as crunches and jumping jacks. If the person recovering from bulimia has been regularly weighing herself, she should be encouraged to stop this practice. Focusing on healthy eating habits and healthy lifestyle rather than weight needs to be emphasized. Regular weighing will likely sabotage her efforts at normal eating without purging, due to her reaction to normal weight fluctuations.
Sports and Fitness Activities
Published in Linda Cardozo, Staskin David, Textbook of Female Urology and Urogynecology - Two-Volume Set, 2017
usuAlly, the diAgnosis of urodynAmic suI is mAde during Assessment in A hAlf-sitting, lithotomy position. The vAlidity of this evAluAtion cAn be questioned As most women only leAk in A stAnding position. some pAd tests involve physicAl Activities such As stAir climbing And jumping [21]. HenAllA et Al. [22] And HAgen et Al. [23] designed tests bAsed on physicAl Activities. The lAtter test involved running, jumping jAcks, stAnding up And lying down, And AbdominAl curls. These were found to be nine times As provocAtive As the ICs test involving physicAl Activity. The Authors concluded thAt Assessment of the degree of suI hAs to be physicAlly provocAtive to detect suI. nygAArd et Al. reported thAt 7% of women Admitted to urine loss only during sports, And thAt 40% And 17% first noted Urinary incontinence during sports while in high school or junior high school, respectively [1]. MethodologicAl problems in study design hAve meAnt thAt there is A lAck of studies describing blAdder And urethrAl function during physicAl Activity. JAmes [24] Argued thAt Assessment of suI should be performed in stAnding And working positions And during physicAl Activity. He used AmbulAtory blAdder pressure meAsurements to demonstrAte peAks of blAdder pressure rise during running And jumping, which occurred when the feet touched the ground. Although pressure rise wAs higher during coughing, some women were only leAking during exercise.
The impact of exercise therapy and abdominal binding in the management of diastasis recti abdominis in the early post-partum period: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2021
Nadia Keshwani, Sunita Mathur, Linda McLean
With regards to urogynecological complaints, in the current study, although exercise therapy and abdominal binding were associated with negative effects on urogynecological function, none of these effects were meaningful when interpreted within the context of established MCIDs. The exercise program did not contain high impact exercises (e.g. running and jumping jacks) and purposely excluded activities (e.g. abdominal curl-ups/sit-ups) that may increase intra-abdominal pressure and may therefore result in, or worsen, urogynecological complaints (Barton, Serrao, Thompson, and Briffa, 2015; Fozzatti et al., 2012). Moreover, the abdominal binders used in the current study were unlikely to evoke or exacerbate urogynecological symptoms through causing an increase in intra-abdominal pressure. Zhang et al. (2016) reported that while rigid binders do cause increases in intra-abdominal pressure, elastic binders do not. The Postnatal FITsplint, while not specifically tested, is unlikely to have changed intra-abdominal pressure because it is flexible and elastic. That said, further research is needed to determine the impact of individual abdominal binders on intra-abdominal pressure and urogynecological symptoms.
Lower Extremity Open Skill Training Effects on Perception of Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processing, and Performance
Published in Journal of Motor Behavior, 2021
Tobias Engeroff, Florian Giesche, David Friebe, Jan Wilke, Lutz Vogt, Winfried Banzer, Daniel Niederer
The individual training sessions started with a two-minute warm-up (Jumping Jacks = repetitive jumping from neutral standing to a position with the legs spread and the hands touching each other overhead). Afterwards the choice reaction-drills were performed on a panel equipped with five sensor pads (upper right and left, lower right and left, center). The size of the panel is 100 cm x 76 cm, the sensor pads are circles with a 20 cm diameter each. The pad is linked to a control box which provided a visual stimulus and feedback information via five lights, each corresponding to one of the sensor pads (The Quick Board, LCC, Memphis, United States of America). The control box was placed at eyelevel in front (1.5 meter distance) of the participants. With an ICC of .89, the reliability of the device was found to be sufficient (Galpin et al. 2008).
Effects of a four-week aerobic exercise programme on depression, anxiety and general self-efficacy in people living with HIV on highly active anti-retroviral therapy
Published in AIDS Care, 2022
Nse A. Odunaiya, Samuel A. Agbaje, Opeyemi Mercy Adegoke, Oluwafemi O. Oguntibeju
Participants in the experimental group underwent an aerobic exercise training programme alongside HAART. The programme, which was supervised by a physiotherapist, was commenced with five-minute warm-up session and ended with five-minute cool-down session. The workout comprised brisk walking, jogging on a spot, jumping jack exercise and race within a defined area. Participants in the experimental group carried out exercise for thirty minutes, three times weekly for four weeks. Control subjects were only on HAART throughout the duration of the exercise.