OSTEOPOROSIS
Physical Exercise to Fight Osteoporosis
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| Physical Exercise to Fight Osteoporosis |
Besides being convenient to prevent weight gain and body balance more easily (just benefiting aspects of bone health), physical exercise is the third essential requirement if you want to prevent osteoporosis, among other possible diseases.
Appropriate preventive physical activity is one in which the load has some effect, such as jumping, playing tennis, walking and running. Also lifting weights, dancing, aerobics, stair climbing or skiing, are helpful.
The exercises that provide bone strength, which they require work, stimulate new bone growth and are better than swimming in the water supports your weight, or cycling, in which the bicycle supports your body. It is also important to make extension more than flexion, for greater muscle strength of the vertebrae.
Activities involving extension are the most recommended, such as walking, salt, dancing, aerobics, gymnastics ... tables, producing load and muscle tension.
Instead, it is preferable to avoid flexion exercises in which muscles contract strongly. If you exercise outdoors and the sun is giving you much better as well get the necessary doses of vitamin D.
Physical exercise can take many years though. There is an exercise for every age, the important thing is to stay always on the move and know what exercises are appropriate for the age group we belong to.
Apart from regular physical exercise (one hour three times a week) and constant (its effects are lost when you stop practicing) are very useful practice of yoga and tai-chi. There is a technique in tai-chi called "the breath of bones", specially designed to restore bone mass.
