Outline of exercise
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to exercise:
Exercise - any bodily activity that enhances or log physical fitness and overall health and wellness. It is performed for various reasons including strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, as well as for the purpose of enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Types of exercise
Aerobic exercise
-- Aerobics
- Circuit training
- Cycling
- Hiking
- Running
- Skipping rope
- Swimming
- Walking
- Power walking
Anaerobic exercise
= compound exercise,
- Quadriceps
- * Frog Jumping
- * Leg extension
- * Leg press
- * Lunge
- * Squat
- Hamstrings
- * Deadlift
- * Frog Jumping
- * Good-morning
- * Leg curl
- * Squat
- Calves
- * Calf raise
- Pectorals
- * Bench press
- * Chest fly
- * Dips
- * Machine fly
- * Push-up
- Lats and trapezius
- * Bent-over row
- * Chin-up
- * Pulldown
- * Pullup
- * Seated row
- * Shoulder shrug
- * Supine row
- Deltoids
- * Front raise
- * Head stand into Handstand push-up
- * Lateral raise
- * Military press
- * Rear delt raise
- * Shoulder press
- * Upright row
- Biceps
- * Biceps curl
- * Pull ups with a supinated grip
- Triceps
- * Close-grip bench press
- * Dip
- * Pushdown
- * Triceps extension
- Forearms
- * Wrist curl
- * Wrist extension
- Abdomen and obliques
- * Crunch
- * Leg raise
- * Russian twist
- * Sit-up
- Lower back
- * Deadlift
- * Good-morning
- * Hyperextension
- Pelvis
- *Vaginal weightlifting
- Extended length conditioning
Calisthenics
Calisthenics
- Abdominal exercise
- Calf-raises
- Crunches
- Dips
- Hyperextensions
- Jumping jacks
- Leg raises
- Lunges
- Plank
- Pull-ups
- Muscle-ups
- Push-ups
- Sit-ups
- Squat jumps
- Squats
- Bend and Reach
- High Jumper
- Rower
- Squat Bender
Stretching exercises
- Ballistic stretching
- Dynamic stretching
- PNF stretching
- Static stretching
- * Passive stretching
Specialized training methods
- Altitude training
- Ballistic training
- Boxing training
- Circuit training
- Complex training
- Cross training
- Endurance training
- * Long slow distance
- Grip strength training
- Interval training
- Plyometrics
- Power training
- Strength training
- * High intensity training
- * Suspension training
- * Weight training
- ** Resistance training
- ** Training to failure
Other
- Physical therapy
- Pilates
- Yoga
Exercise and health
- Exercise trends
Health benefits of exercise
- Aerobic conditioning
- Neurobiological effects of physical exercise - improves:
- * Executive function
- * Memory
- * Stress management
- Physical fitness, including improving and maintaining these aspects of it:
- * Accuracy
- * Agility
- * Balance
- * Coordination
- * Endurance
- * Flexibility
- * Power
- * Speed
- * Stamina
- * Strength
- Prevention - exercise helps prevent:
- * Cancer
- * Drug addiction
- * Hypertension
- * Major depressive disorder
- * Neurodegenerative disorders
- * Obesity
- * Osteoporosis
- * Type 2 Diabetes
Dangers of exercise
- Cramps
- Dehydration
- Heat stroke
- Overtraining
- Sports injury
- * Sprain - pull or rupture ligaments
- * Strain - pull or rupture muscles
- * Tendon rupture
- ** Achilles tendon rupture
Terminology
- Reps -
- Sets -
- Workout -
- Warm up -
- Ripped -
- Buff -
- Recovery -
- Formula -
- Dietary supplement -
- Protein -
- Whey protein -
- Energy drink -
- Snack bar -
- Amino acid -
- Creatine
- Vitamin B2
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin B12
- Muscle -
- Muscle tissue -
- Muscle fiber -
- Joint -
- Tendon -
History of exercise
- Aerobic exercise § History
- Bodybuilding § History
- Exercise § History
- Exercise physiology § History
- Exercise trends
- Fitness boot camp § History
- Fitness culture
- Physical culture
- Outdoor fitness § History
Exercise equipment
Traditional
- Dumbbell
- Barbell
- Cable Attachments
- Chin-up bar
- Kettlebell
- Treadmill
- Punching bag
- Metal bar
- Bench
Other
- Abdomenizer
- Aerobie
- Air flow ball
- Atlas Bar
- BOSU
- Balance board
- Baoding Balls
- Battling ropes
- Bicycle
- Bone exercise monitor
- Bowflex
- Bulgarian Bag
- Bullworker
- Carva
- Communications Specification for Fitness Equipment
- Cybex International
- Elliptical trainer
- Exercise machine
- Exercise ball
- Exertris
- Fitness trail
- Foam roller
- Galileo
- Gamebike
- Gravity boots
- Grippers
- Gymnasticon
- Heart rate monitor
- Hydraulic Exercise Equipment
- ICON Health & Fitness
- Indoor rower
- Inversion therapy
- Isometric exercise device
- Jade egg
- Lifting stone
- Mallakhamb
- Medicine ball
- NordicTrack
- Outdoor gym
- PCGamerBike
- Pedometer
- Pole dance
- Power tower
- Power-Plate
- Range of Motion
- Resistance band
- Roman chair
- RowPerfect
- Scrum machine
- Slant board
- Soloflex
- Stairmaster
- Stationary bicycle
- Training mask
- Thighmaster
- Total Gym
- Treadmill
- * Treadmill Desk
- * Treadmill with Vibration Isolation System
- * Treadmill workstation
- Vaginal cone
- Wall bars
- Weighted clothing
- Wheelchair trainer
- Wobble board
- Wrist roller
- Yoni egg
- Barbell
- Bench
- Bowflex
- Bulgarian Bag
- Cable machine
- Captains of Crush Grippers
- Dip bar
- Dumbbell
- Halteres
- Indian clubs
- Iron rings
- IronMind
- Ivanko Barbell Company
- Kettlebell
- Leg press
- Power cage
- Shake Weight
- Smith machine
- Soloflex
- Total Gym
- Trap bar
- TRX System
- Universal Gym Equipment
- Weight machine
- York Barbell
Physiology of exercise
- Aerobic exercise
- Anaerobic exercise
- Exercise induced nausea
- Grip strength
- Muscle hypertrophy
- Overtraining
- Stretching
- Supercompensation
- Warming up
- Weight cutting
- Weight loss
Health monitor
- Body fat percentage
- Blood pressure
- Heart rate
- Pulse rate
- Respiration rate
Miscellaneous concepts
- Fitness professional
- Personal trainer
- Weighted clothing
Significant people of physical fitness
- Roger Bannister
- Lance Armstrong
- John Basedow
- Robyn Landis
- Joseph Pilates
- Susan Powter
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Jack LaLanne
- Erwan Le Corre
- Georges Hébert
Lists
- List of exercise equipment
- List of weight training exercises