| (1.Department of Physical Education，Harbin Institute of Technology，Weihai 264209，China; 2.Department of Physical Education，Shangqiu Normal Institute，Shangqiu 476000，China） Abstract: General principle for guiding middle-aged and elderly people to do physical exercises is to adopt the “long distance and low speed endurance exercising” plan to improve the functions of the cardiopulmonary system, thus achieving the goal of physical exercising. However, more and more researches have demonstrated that resistive exercises not only have a significant effect on maintaining the functions of the muscle-skeletal muscle system (which has a positive effect on preventing osteoporosis, lumbago, backache and other functional disorders), but also play a positive role in maintaining functions such as insulin resistance, rest metabolic rate, glucose metabolism, blood pressure, body fat and gastrointestinal functions (which are related to the incidence of obesity, heart disease and cancer). Resistive exercises should be considered as the core content in disease prevention and constitution im-provement, but not as a secondary or peripheral means.
Key words: resistive exercise；disease prevention；middle-aged and elderly people；physical health |
