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Health Promotion and Exercise Training

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Health is determined not only by the absence of disease, but also by an individual’s resistance to pathogenic factors. In turn, resistance depends on the effectiveness of specific homeostatic regulation and the mechanism of general adaptation. Through the change in adaptivity, health may be increased or reduced. While it is difficult to predict which specific homeostatic mechanism will be necessary in various stages of life in the individual, it is more reliable to try to improve health, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the mechanism of general adaptation.

Physical training results in a variety of changes in individuals. There are several changes which are essential both for increased exercise performance and for increasing adaptivity, by favouring the effectiveness of the mechanism of general adaptation. These changes: improve central nervous regulation and central nervous system functions; increase endocrine system capacity; increase energy potential; improve the capacity of the oxygen transport system; improve oxidation processes; increase metabolic and functional economy; increase functional stability; and increase the number of Na+,K+-pumps.

The influence of these changes on adaptivity is accomplished by the influence of exercise training on immunoactivities, and by the antisclerotic effect of training. The latter may be considered to be metabolic (actualised through the training effect on lipoprotein metabolism and aging-related calcium distribution) or mechanical (protection of tissues from sclerotic changes by their activities) effects.

The training effects are specifically dependent upon performed exercises. Endurance exercise is considered to be the most important and widely recommended form of exercise for health improvement. Most of the training benefits (listed above) for increased adaptivity are induced by aerobic endurance training. Gymnastic exercises are indispensable in regard to mechanical antisclerotic effect. They are also essential influences on the central nervous system. Aerobic dance or aerobic rhythmic gymnastics are ways by which the positive effects of endurance and gymnastic exercise can be combined.

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Viru, A., Smirnova, T. Health Promotion and Exercise Training. Sports Med 19, 123–136 (1995). https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-199519020-00004

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