Health Benefits of Karobics
As you increase your Karobic fitness, you will notice you can do physical activity much longer without becoming out of breath or feeling like your heart is pounding out of your chest. You will be able to do activities such as playing with children, housework, yard work, or hiking without becoming exhausted, allowing you to get more enjoyment from life. Karobic exercise will also strengthen your muscles and increase your flexibility, reducing the risk of injury in every day life. The following are just some of the many benefits you may experience doing Karobics just 3 days a week:
- Improved Cholesterol (Elevate HDL cholesterol, Lower Triglycerides).
- Help in
lowering blood pressure.
- Improvement in muscular strength and endurance.
- Promotion of a sense of well-being.
- Improvement in the efficiency
of the heart, lungs, and circulatory system.
- Provides a healthy way to manage stress.
- Maintains condition of bones, decreasing risk
of osteoporosis and fractures.
- Increases self-awareness and self-confidence.
- Increases agility and hand–eye coordination, along with
balance.
Types of strength training include: Isotonic, and Isometric. Isotonic exercises are those in which the weight or load
is constant and the muscle shortens and lengthens. Examples of isotonic exercise are lifting light free weights, and/or flexing
the muscles while making a fist and using the arm to block an opponent in self defense, of which there are many instances in
the Karobics routines. Isotonic exercises are incorporated throughout Karobics.
Isometric muscular exercises are exercises in which
muscular tension is developed without much muscle movement. An example would be pushing your hands together to create tension
without moving either arm. In Karobics, the stances, which can be done alone just for toning the leg muscles, are isometric exercises.
