Main Categories of Exercise.

                  Types of Exercise:

To get you started, here are the different types of exercises, how they benefit the body and what kind of activities they entail. here’s my explanation of what i mean:

Exercise falls into 5 main categories:

Aerobic:

Aerobic exercise is the kind that makes you breathe harder and builds your fitness up. This is the type of exercise we all tend to think of when we hear the word exercise, and often it is the thought of being out of breath and sweaty that puts people off starting to exercise. It is very beneficial and even at moderate intensity will improve your health. You can get the benefits of aerobic exercise from a brisk walk or a steady cycle ride.

Strength building:

From the age of 30, you can lose up to eight per cent of your muscle strength every decade. By the time you reach 80, you have the potential to lose 40 per cent of muscle strength. Some exercise specifically helps you build muscle. We’re not talking about weight training in the gym here (although obviously that does the job too). Lots of activities including pilates, physiotherapy type exercise and other fairly low intensity activities help you build muscle. Anything that works your muscles will do, as long as you do the activity for long enough.

Balance Training:

Some exercise helps improve your balance by helping you build up core strength. This is especially helpful for people who are at risk of falls, including the elderly, but it is good for everyone. Examples of activities that help with balance include Tai Chi, dance and playing bowls.

Endurance:

You can improve your endurance by doing an activity for increasing periods of time. For example if you can only walk for 10 minutes without needing to rest you can improve your endurance by walking as far as you can several times a day, and increasing how far you go over time. The increases can be small, if you walk for 10 minutes several times a day soon you’ll find you can walk for 15 minutes, then 20 minutes 

Flexibility:

Flexibility is really important and much overlooked when you think about exercise. Staying flexible improves your quality of life, imagine not being able to look over your shoulder to reverse your car. If you sit for long periods of time each day you’ll notice that your flexibility decreases. Stretches, yoga, tai chi, pilates and lots of other exercise classes will all help improve flexibility. Flexibility training can also improve balance, which is good news for all of us as we get older.

Putting it all together,

Ideally, you should include all four types of exercise in your workouts. But that doesn't mean you have to do four separate workouts. You can combine some exercises together, like strength and balance training. For example, you could do bicep curls while standing on one leg. Some workouts, such as yoga, incorporate strength, flexibility and balance exercises.
A sample workout might include running or walking briskly for 30 minutes on a treadmill for aerobic exercise, then doing strength and balance exercises combined, and finishing by doing some static stretches."Your exercise program should include a bit of all four types of exercise.