The benefit of regular physical exercise is more than just weight management. From the research findings, physical exercise is attached to a number of benefits, these includes reducing the risks of many diseases and the improvement of the overall health life. This paper will particularly incorporate the benefits of physical exercise, and measures that a nurse can take to assist his or her clients with health promotion measures by recommending the measures and the way to conduct the exercise.
High blood pressure: regular physical exercise helps reduce blood pressure in those people with high blood pressure levels (Divine, 2005, p. 25). Regular physical activity aids in decreasing the level of body fat, which is normally linked with high levels of blood pressure. Notably, there is an increasing prevalence of high blood pressure in the society today and the subjects involved in its treatment, high blood pressure is also the most prevalent source of kidney failure and stroke.
Obesity: physical exercise helps in burning calories in the body and reduces the amount of body fat by fabricating and preserving muscles. When merged with a proper and nutritious diet, physical exercise will help control prevent obesity and control weight, a risk factor for a number of diseases. Arguably, the prevalence of obesity based on the research findings is increasing at a rate that may term obesity as epidemic.
Heart disease and stroke- regular physical exercise help prevent heart decease and stroke by strengthening the muscle of the heart, reducing the levels of blood pressure, and increasing the heart’s capacity to work (Kokkinos, 2010, p. 49). Maximizing all these factors will provide beneficial factors therefore reducing the risk for peripheral vascular decease. Just like obesity and high blood pressure, heart decease and stroke has been found to be increasing at a very high rate since it is normally linked with obesity and high blood pressure.
Recommended guide to a regular physical exercise
For the middle-aged adults, the recommended physical activity should include leisure physical activity like walking, swimming, cycling, household chores, and planned exercise in the perspective of daily communal and family activities. Clients should do at least two hours of average intensity aerobics all through the week. Aerobics should be carried out in about fifteen minute duration. For muscle strengthening, it is recommended that major muscle groups be done for two or more days a week. For additional health benefits, the clients are advised to increase gradually the time they undertake aerobics to about six hours a week as they progress with the exercise.
References
Divine, J. G. (2005). Action plan for high blood pressure. Leeds: Human Kinetics.
Kokkinos, P. (2010). Physical activity and cardiovascular disease prevention. Sudbury, Mass:
Jones and Bartlett.
