While the reality is that most people generally want to exercise to improve their body composition (or more bluntly “to look better naked”), this is not all the case. In some cases, individuals just want to know how much and what type of exercise they should to do develop general health and fitness.
General Guidelines for Health and Fitness
And the answer is not much. The basic American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) guidelines are going to be more than sufficient. These guidelines target the primary factors in basic health and fitness. These are cardiovascular health, muscular strength, flexibility and balance. I’ll only address the first two.
I’ve presented the general ACSM guidelines below and you can see that they include flexibility and balance Honestly, full range resistance training tends to do most of the work to improve both. In some cases, specific stretching or mobility work is indicated.
I will focus on aerobic and resistance training guidelines.… Keep Reading