What kind of exercise is "aerobics"?

Fitness aerobics is a kind of aerobic exercise. Aerobics is the integration of gymnastics, music, dance in one of the pursuit of human health and beauty of the sports program, therefore, aerobics has sports, dance, music, aesthetic education and other social and cultural functions. Gymnastics is a better fitness program to control rapid weight gain after middle age. Popular gymnastics at home and abroad are broadly divided into six categories: according to different age compilation of a series of gymnastics; compilation of men and women according to different genders; compilation of the number of people by the number of single, double and collective gymnastics; according to the shape of the body and improve the posture and posture of the gymnastics; according to the exercise of various parts of the body of the gymnastics; according to the unarmed or light instrument movement of the gymnastic gymnastics. The purpose of fitness aerobics is to promote health, and can be used by people of different age levels in society. It is based on the needs of the practice of the object to create, simple and easy to learn, the rhythm is a little slow, the length of time varies, can be programmed from 5 minutes to l hour. For example, the famous American aerobics star Jane Fonda's primary aerobics, a set of 27 minutes. In Japan, the general aerobics about 1 hour or so. At present, China's fitness aerobics movement is carried out very widely, a variety of sets of aerobics action practice time, venue, number of people, content, action name, rhythm fast and slow, etc. There is no uniform standard, can be choreographed according to the needs of the practitioners.

Aerobics in addition to the above classification, according to certain characteristics, can also be categorized as follows:

(1) according to the main purpose of the exercise and the task can be divided into mass aerobics and competitive aerobics;

(2) according to the form of the exercise can be divided into unarmed aerobics, aerobics and the use of light equipment and the use of specialized aerobics equipment for the practice of aerobics;

(3) according to the gender characteristics of the practitioners, can be divided into women's aerobics and men's aerobics;

(4) according to the characteristics of the practitioners of different ages, can be divided into young children's aerobics, children's aerobics, juvenile aerobics, young people's aerobics, middle-aged aerobics and older people's aerobics;

(5) according to the characteristics of the human body's anatomical structure, according to the parts of the body can often be divided into the neck aerobics, shoulder aerobics, arm aerobics, chest aerobics, waist and abdomen aerobics, hip aerobics, leg aerobics and foot aerobics;

(6) according to the content characteristics of the action, can be divided into physical aerobics, posture aerobics, running and jumping aerobics and mat aerobics.