Although many of you may be taking up a walking program to lose weight (and it is indeed effective with consistency), don’t starve your body for energy or forget to hydrate properly. Food is energy. It fuels your exercise, and that keeps you putting one foot in front of the other. That said, you won’t
Exercise, physical activity, and fitness are distinct but interrelated concepts (Caspersen et al. 1985). Physical activity is any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle, while exercise is planned and repeated physical activity that is structured into individuals’ lives with the purpose of maintaining or improving some attribute of either health or skill (i.e., fitness). Exercise
Before you start a new activity program, even one as seemingly simple as walking, it’s important to determine not only how healthy and fit you are in general but also how fit you are in the specific activity you want to begin. For example, if you are a very fit cyclist, you might not have
If you’re going to walk, then you need an evaluation that will take activity and walking into consideration too. It provides an assessment more specific to walking. It takes a look at your health history and your fitness background and level. In each of the 10 areas, choose the number that best describes you, then
I doubt I need to convince you that walking can benefit your health. Thanks to research in the last decade, most people understand the benefits of walking. Researchers have done substantial amounts of work on the topic of walking for fitness (not just performance or biomechanics). And as the buzz grew louder, what walkers have
Your first goal on this program will be to find the most difficult exercise that you can accomplish within each Movement Category for 12 reps. This is your initial evaluation. Once you know where to start, you can begin your first 4-week cycle. For each Movement Category listed on the schedule in this article, attempt
The Interdisciplinary Fitness Interview (IFI) is a semi-structured assessment device designed to help examiners explore systematically the domain of psycholegal abilities associated with adjudicative competency. Originally developed by Stephen Golding and Ronald Roesch for a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-sponsored comparative validity study of methods of assessing competency, the IFI was developed on the
The Fitness Interview Test-Revised (FIT-R) is an instrument designed for use by mental health professionals in evaluations of competence to stand trial. Designed as a structured clinical judgment instrument that guides evaluators through an assessment of the specific psycholegal abilities required of a defendant to stand trial, the FIT-R demonstrates reliability and predictive validity and