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exercise: see physical fitness physical fitness, combined good health and physical development. The object of any program of physical fitness is to maximize an individual's health, strength, endurance, and skill relative to age, sex, body build, and physiology.
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exercise

Training of the body to improve health and fitness. Different types have different purposes, including aerobics for heart and respiratory function and weight loss, weight-bearing exercise for bone strength, weight training for muscle strength, and stretching for flexibility. Specific exercises are used in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Benefits include lower blood pressure, higher HDL cholesterol, improved disease resistance, and better general well-being.

exercise
1. US and Canadian a ceremony or formal routine, esp at a school or college
2. Gymnastics a particular type of event, such as performing on the horizontal bar


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The trial has many merits, including the attention to working with highly trained McKenzie therapists to deliver the intervention, the blinded outcome assessments, the high follow-up rates, the attention to the measurement of adherence to the McKenzie exercise program, and recruitment of patients consulting their family doctor about their low back pain.
McKenzie treatment for acute back pain added to first-line care does ... by Foster, Nadine / Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
This is one of the McKenzie Exercises, named after a New Zealand physical therapist.
Exercises to Stop Back Pain Now by Anna Hart / Health care industry community
And, you can also perform back and leg strengthening, especially the McKenzie Exercises that will certainly help you with your back pain.
Exercise for Back Pain by Roger Thompson / Health care industry community
 
 
 
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