Cardiovascular Endurance is often what we think of as being ‘fit’. It shows how well your heart, lungs and muscles work as a team for longer amounts of time. High levels of cardiovascular fitness are associated with a lower chance of having high blood pressure and a lower risk of coronary heart disease and dying. You can improve it in as little as 12 weeks. Give it a go!

This week we will look at the next three skill-related components of fitness. Power. Speed. Reaction time. Power is a combination of strength and speed. Speed is how fast you can do something. Reaction time is how fast you respond to an outside stimulus. Learn how to improve your power, speed and reaction time here.

So, we have spoken every week on ‘Fitness Friday’ about fitness and exercise and how it affects our stress levels, immune system, sleep and even our memory and cognitive abilities. But what is fitness? It is not just how puffed out yet get. There are actually 11 components. There are health components of fitness and skill-related components. Over the next week’s we will look at what they are.

So, we have spoken every week on ‘Fitness Friday’ about fitness and exercise and how it affects our stress levels, immune system, sleep and even our memory and cognitive abilities. But what is fitness? It is not just how puffed out yet get. There are actually 11 components. There are health components of fitness and skill-related components. Over the next week’s we will look at what they are.

Recently, there has been an increasing amount of research suggesting that exercise-related intervention can improve mental health and reduce stress and burnout. In particular, exercises which combines strength and aerobics training and are more strenuous appear to improve the cognitive benefits. Exercise has been proposed to reduce stress through both psychological and biological mechanisms. So, in these stressful times why not get out there and do some exercise.