Introduction to Basic Health and Fitness

People should engage more in physical activities. They are entertaining, necessary, and most importantly, it can provide us benefits that can be quite useful.
By maintaining health and physical fitness, we can make sure that a person’s life can have long term health benefits that can improve his/her quality of life. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine, health restrictions have forced the general public to stay at home and avoid physical contact with one another, preventing the majority of people from participating in physical activities. This had a huge influence on people because they were no longer allowed to exercise and participate in physical activities in gyms and public parks. But even though maintaining one’s health and physical fitness is challenging due to the quarantine. People still find ways to maintain and improve their health.

Physical Activities are important to us humans as they are the reason why we can improve our health and reduce the risk of developing certain diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc.

These are examples of physical activities that you can do at your home:

• Jumping Jacks

-A jumping jack, also known as a star jump and called a side-straddle hop in the US military, is a physical jumping exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands going overhead, sometimes in a clap, and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides. 

• Push Up

-A push-up is a common calisthenics exercise beginning from the prone position. By raising and lowering the body using the arms, push-ups exercise the pectoral muscles, triceps, and anterior deltoids, with ancillary benefits to the rest of the deltoids, serratus anterior, coracobrachialis and the midsection as a whole.

• Yoga

-Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines that originated in ancient India, aimed at controlling and stilling the mind, and recognizing the detached ‘witness-consciousness’ as untouched by the activities of the mind and mundane suffering. 

Common health issues that are faced today is overweight, obesity, tobacco; substance abuse, heart disease, and high blood pressure. by doing physical activities and maintaining your health, you can be able to prevent this type of disease and live a healthy life.