B6 Healthy exercise

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B6 Healthy exercise

Why do we often start with a warming-up?

If you train muscles,
they become .....

Learning objectives

• You know that muscles get stronger through training.
• You can explain why exercise is good for your health

Training muscles

Muscles lose their strength if you don’t use them. They will become thinner and weaker. If you use your muscles a lot, they become thicker. They can then exert more force. Training makes your muscles stronger..

Exercise is not just good for your muscles, it also helps you to relax. 

Regular exercise is good for your health. Your physical fitness improves. That lets you move more easily, for longer and faster. 

I exercise on a regular basis

Yes

No

Motor development

Exercise is also needed for proper development of motor skills. Exercising enough improves your coordination.

Motor memory

This form of memory lets you coordinate movements correctly without consciously moving your muscles. 

A movement that you can carry out without having to think is called an automatic movement.

Which movement is
an automatic movement?

Muscle pain

Muscle pain often develops after a movement you are not used to. The unaccustomed strain causes lots of very small areas of damage in the muscles.

I have suffered from muscle pain

Yes

No

Injuries

damage to a muscle, bone or joint.

I have suffered from an injury of a muscle

Yes

No

I have suffered from an injury of a bone

Yes

No

I have suffered from an injury of a joint.

Yes

No

You can prevent injuries by doing ....

1. stretching exercises
2. a warming up
3. a coolingdown
4. all of the above

RSI

repetitive strain injury

Exercises

1 up and including 4 online