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exercise
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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.


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20,21) People with more severe pain were excluded because the endurance exercise regimen may have increased the symptoms of this group.
Exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH) is an acute-onset imbalance in the tonicity of extracellular fluids during or after endurance exercise which results in a blood sodium concentration ([Na+]) of less than 135 mmol/L.
Endurance exercises increase your breathing and heart rate.
 
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