Physical activityPlaying sports is beneficial to our health if we do it correctly and according to the physical condition according to our age and lifestyle.

No doubt our bodily being is marked by our social being, immersed in a globalized culture like never before that tends to set off the suitability of our habits and bodily practices. This suitability is extended not only to “correct or desirable” conduct hygiene, food, gestures and posture, (among others), but the resources, methods and procedures to achieve them.

Our choices as far as they can become one of the “care” to lavish the body are largely rooted in the sense of duty: we must be healthy, agile and fit. In many cases, rather than an acquired right and deserved pleasure, is a term coined by lacultura the body healthy in a society that reinforces patterns of working life increasingly sedentary.

Physical Activity and Health “Stay Fit” has become a motto over the health industries, and not observe the proliferation of strange and magical new proposals gymnastic routines available in both magazines and appliance centers called gyms. For those who might say that Physical Education is an exclusive practice of the school term we want to remind you that it is a discipline that deals with that physical activity is basically related HEALTH ORGANIZATION and not with the market laws.

Physical activity will only result in a better quality of life if performed in a real context of health care for each person. Just as in education there is a large undertaking this task, it seems that we have to wait a little longer so that it extends to EU policies that promote various activities HEALTH ORGANIZATION programs in the social field, so that physical education the adult is not open to the laws are not always so healthy market.

Physical activity and health benefits

In the frequently asked question: What year? We respond with words of Dr. Don Antonio Casimiro Andujar (University of Almeria): The importance is not in the physical activity but how it performs. This sentence reflects something as simple as fundamental: how to take into account the needs and possibilities of each person.

To begin to understand the benefits of physical activity will note their impact at different levels: osteo-articular, muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic and psychosocial.

Bone and joint level: there are improvements in bone composition, mainly by increasing vascularity and mineral retention. Structurally, increases bone mass and strengthening the elements constitutivosde the joint (cartilage, ligaments, etc.)..

Level muscle: increases the amount of protein in muscle, structurally strengthen the muscle fibers and tendons. Functionally, there is greater strength and endurance, increased activity and improved energy, greater elasticity and improved motor coordination (nervous system).

Level cardiovascular structurally reinforcing the walls of the heart and increases muscle mass. Regarding the components, there is an increase in red blood cells, hemoglobin carries oxygen, mitochondria, myoglobin and defensive elements (leukocytes and lymphocytes). Decreases in heart rate with which the heart becomes less tiring to perform an activity. While at rest, prevents the accumulation of negative substance (fat) inthe walls of the arteries and increases elasticity, improves circulation.

Level Respiratory: increased strength, endurance and flexibility in muscles and organs involved in breathing, expands the volume of breathing by decreasing the number of breaths per minute, etc.. and generally improves the respiratory activity.

Metabolic level: physical activity increases HDL (good fat) and decreases LDL (bad fat), maintains proper blood glucose levels and improves the detoxifying activity.

Psychosocial level: who is accustomed to perform AF usually have more general welfare, with himself and with others. Help downloading tensions of various kinds and bring happiness, fun and self-confidence.