Jane Fonda – the famous American actress, after 1970, inspired by Dr. H. Cooper’s method, founded maintenance aerobic gymnastics, which is based on analytical exercises with a strong medical character. It uses combined structures, which address the request of joint and muscle-ligament suppleness in the form of elongations and even stretching.
Aerobic gymnastics is actually a simplification of rhythmic gymnastics that was transmitted to the general public to generate social bonds and a good state of health. At its roots, aerobic gymnastics was addressed especially to women. After a decade this sport gained momentum becoming a sport for both sexes. People who are sedentary or forced to rest for a long time are the first to benefit from aerobic exercise because over time the effects of physical deconditioning are produced, sedentarism being considered a real disease.
Aerobic gymnastics is addressed to any category of population that appreciates movement and wants to improve their physical condition. It can be practiced regardless of age and sex, because each exercise can be adapted to the physical condition of each individual.
Given the fact that aerobic activity allows a particularly high consumption of energy, around 400/800Kcal per hour, using the addictive effect of music and choreography, specially created by the instructors, has the following effects on the human body and mind:
- It significantly reduces the risk of monotony and repetitiveness, typical for other activities, giving the attractiveness of the effort by associating the movement with the music and makes it easier to perform the exercises;
- Improves the functionality of the locomotor system – bones, muscles and joints, training the ability to move the entire body, reducing or maintaining body weight and harmonizing body shapes. slows down the aging process;
- It favors activities that pursue a state of well-being and develop the level of physical resistance;
- Leads to neuro-psychic relaxation by creating psychological states favorable to the development of effort, reducing negative affective experiences, improving self-image by reducing anger and frustration;
- Develops coordination and balance, the capacity for rhythm and temporal orientation, spatial orientation and the capacity for association and alternation;
- Improves the activity of the cardio-vascular system, by strengthening the myocardium, improving blood circulation and reducing blood cholesterol levels.
- Helps to improve immunity by increasing the number of white blood cells;
- Regulates metabolism.
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