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Rev.Saúde.Com 2005; 1(2): 163-172
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level of functional dependence becomes important to the elderly,
because it will provide a prescription of physical exercises more
addressed your needs, increasing the effectiveness of the program
and reducing the risks. The general beginnings for the prescription
of physical exercises for elderly are based in the modalities
appropriate, intensity, duration, frequency and progression of the
physical activity, with the objective of improving the life quality, to
minimize the physiologic alterations, to improve the motive capacity
and to provide benefits social, psychological and physical.
Therefore, in the prescription of physical exercises for older people
is necessary the training of the capacity aerobics, of the force, of
the balance, of the time of reaction and movement and of the agility.
Key words: prescription of exercises, health, elderly.
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