Exercise is one of the most important factors in a persons’ life.

Physical activity, or the lack of it, can result in a person having a

healthy life or cause them to have diabetes. The benefits of
exercise are countless. The positive health results, the
improvement in attitude, even better academic performance are
all factors which make not exercising inexcusable. Merely not
using a person’s body is harmful. Not being active results in a
person’s muscles becoming weak and out of condition. The
effectiveness of a person’s heart and lungs will decrease. A
person’s joints will become stiff and can be injured easily.
Inactivity can be as much of a health risk as smoking. In addition
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Adults should have around thirty to sixty minutes of physical activity four to six times a week.
Two hours and thirty minutes is the minimum a fully developed person needs to lessen the risk of
having some type of chronic disease later in life (“Information”). Physical fitness has two main
classifications-performance related and health related. People have different performance related
requirements in accordance with their occupation but all people have the same health related
requirements (The World). Then there are two types of exercise that helps tone a person’s body
while increasing its endurance. These are aerobic and anaerobic. Aerobic exercise is exercise that
uses the muscles and bones. Cardio activities are a good example of this, such as running or biking.
This type of exercise increases the strength of a person’s heart and boosts their lung capacity.
Anaerobic exercise is an intense but short amount of exercise (Payment). Since it is only for a brief
amount of time, it does not require the amount of oxygen aerobic exercise does. Instead it uses
glycogen which comes from the sugar in a person’s blood.