Training+for+the+Olympics

** ARE YOU IN SHAPE? **

Some questions to think about while you review the class wiki space:
 * 1) What is exercise?
 * 2) Why is it important?
 * 3) When should I exercise?
 * 4) Where can it be done?
 * 5) How can I achieve sustainable level of fitness?

**__Introduction__** This particular unit we will be getting in depth about the role and importance that exercise plays in an individual's life. Physical inactivity is widely known as a risk factor for developing Coronary artery disease. By participating regularly in some form of aerobic physical activity you can increase your capacity for exercise as well as decrease chance for cardiovascular disease. Exercise training increases cardiovascular functional capacity and decreases myocardial oxygen demand at any level of physical activity in apparently healthy persons as well as in most subjects with cardiovascular disease. Regular physical activity is required to maintain these training effects. Be a physical activity advocator by educating others and increase life expectancy!

**__What is Exercise?__**
 * Physical Exercise is: **
 * Any type of activity that is performed to enhance or maintain a specific level of fitness; overall improving an individuals health.
 * When we are exercising to strengthening our muscles and improve the capacity of our cardiovascular system
 * as well as sharpening athletic ability and skills but can also being solely for the purpose of enjoyment.
 * Exercise boosts our immune systems and helps prevent and significantly lower the risk developing heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity which is huge epidemic in the USA.
 * Not only does exercise improve our physical state but it improves our mental health by promoting positive self esteem and helping prevent depression.

__**Types of Exercise**__ <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Aerobic** **exercise is:**
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Exercise at a relatively low intensity that depends primarily on the aerobic energy generating process.
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Exercises that refer to the use of oxygen to efficiently meet energy demands during the exercise via aerobic metabolism.
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Can usually be performed at a sufficient rate over long extended periods of time because the intensity varies from light to moderate.
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Activities such as cycling, swimming, walking, rowing, running, hiking in which they all focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance.



<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Anaerobic exercise is:**
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Intense enough to trigger anaerobic metabolism.
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Used by athletes in non-endurance sports to promote strength, speed and power and by body builders to build muscle mass.
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Muscle energy systems trained using anaerobic exercise develop differently compared to aerobic exercise, leading to greater performance in short duration, high intensity activities, which last from mere seconds up to about 2 minutes.
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Any activity lasting longer than about two minutes has a large aerobic metabolic component.
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Activities such as weight training, functional training, eccentric training or sprinting, increasing short-term muscle strength.



<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Flexibility Exercise is:**
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">activities such as stretching, improve the range of motion of muscles and joints and joints.



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">**__Importance of Exercise__** <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Why should we exercise and train our muscles?**
 * **[|Benefits from Exercise]**


 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 33px;">**Health Effects** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 33px;">(choose an article from below and prepare a 5 min presentation) submit presentation day before you date to present on the class Moodle.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 20px;">Cardiovascular System
 * [|CV System Article]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">Immune System
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 33px;">[|Immune system and exercise article]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">Muscular Endurance/strength
 * [|Endurance/Strength article]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">Brain Function
 * [|Brain Function Article]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">Sleep
 * [|Sleep and exercise article]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">Depression
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 33px;">[|Depression and exercis]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">**__Exercise Training Information Videos__** <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Aerobic Training** media type="custom" key="12400708"

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Anaerobic Training** media type="custom" key="12418742"

<span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Flexibility Exercises** media type="custom" key="12418934"

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">__**Michael Phelps**__ **Background**
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Born Michael Fred Phelps June 30, 1985
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">American swimmer with 16 Olympic medal
 * 6 gold and 2 bronze Athens in 2004, 8 gold at Beijing in 2008 making him most successful athlete at both of these Olympic games edition
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Records/honors
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">His 5 golds in individual events tied the single Games record set by compatriot Eric Heidenin the 1980 Winter Olympics and equaled by Vitaly Scherbo at the 1992 Summer Games
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">He has twice equaled the record eight medals of any type at a single Olympics achieved by Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Phelps holds the record for most gold medals won in single Olympics; his 8 at Beijing in 2008 surpassed former American Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz's 7 gold medal performance at Munich in 1972
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Phelps' medal total is second to the 18 that Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina won over three Olympics
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Phelps holds all-time record for most individual Olympic gold medals with 14
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Earned World Swimmer of the Year Award 6 times, American Swimmer of the Year Award 8 times, Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year
 * <span style="color: #ff5100; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Over his career to this point Phelps has won 66 medals in major international competition, 54 gold, 9 silver, 3 bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships

**Michael Phelps training**
 * [|PhelpsWorkout] Vs. [|Genetics/anatomy]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Read the two articles above and submit a response on Moodle in which you feel contributed the most to the great deal of success Michael Phelps experienced (genetics and anatomy or working out).

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