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Physical exercise is the performance of some activity in order to develop or maintain physical fitness and overall health. It is often directed toward also honing athletic ability or skill.

Functional training is any type of exercise that has a direct relationship to the activities you perform in your daily life.

The Pilates Method (sometimes simply Pilates) is a physical fitness system that was developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates.

Stretching is the activity of gradually applying tensile force to lengthen, strengthen, and lubricate muscles, often performed in anticipation of physical exertion and to increase the range of motion.

iposuction is a popular operation in cosmetic surgery which removes fat from many site on the human body.

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is the pain or discomfort often felt 24 to 72 hours after exercising and subsides generally within 2 to 3 days.

Sports medicine or sport medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the treatment and preventive care of athletes, both amateur and professional.

Running is by definition the fastest means for an animal to move on foot. It is defined in sporting terms as a gait in which at some point all feet are off the ground at the same time.

Weight training is a form of exercise for developing the strength and size of skeletal muscles. It is a common type of resistance training, which is one form of strength training.

Cycling is a recreation, a sport and a means of transport across land. It involves riding bicycles, unicycles, tricycles and other human powered vehicles.

Basal metabolic rate (BMR), is the rate of metabolism that occurs when an individual is at rest in a warm environment and is in the post absorptive state, and has not eaten for at least 12 hours.

Dieting is the practice of eating (and drinking) in a regulated fashion to achieve a particular, short-term objective.

Muscle is the contractile tissue of the body and is derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells.

Bodybuilding is the process of developing muscle fibres through the combination of weight training, increased caloric intake, and rest.

The term overweight is generally used to indicate that a human (or other mammal) has more body fat than is typical or required for the normal functioning of the body.

Skeletal muscle is a type of striated muscle, attached to the skeleton. Skeletal muscles are used to facilitate movement, by applying force to bones and joints; via contraction.

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a medical condition wherein the blood pressure is chronically elevated.

The possible beneficial health effects of tea consumption have been suggested and supported by some studies, but others have not found beneficial effects.

Hyperglycemia or High Blood Sugar is a condition in which an excessive amount of glucose circulates in the blood plasma.

Ischaemic (or ischemic) heart disease is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart. It is the most common cause of death in most western countries.

A healthy diet contains a balance of food groups and all the nutrients necessary to promote good health.

Glycogen is a polysaccharide that is the principal storage form of glucose (Glc) in animal and human cells. Glycogen is found in the form of granules in the cytosol in many cell types.

Tension headaches, which were recently renamed tension type headaches by the International Headache Society, are the most common type of headaches.

Swimming is a technique that humans, and other animals, use to move through water using only movements of the body, for exercise, fun and competition.

Chondromalacia Patellae (also known as CMP, Patello-femoral Pain Syndrome, or Runner's Knee) is a degenerative condition of the cartilage surface of the back of the knee cap, or patella.

Stretch marks are a form of scarring generally associated with pregnancy, obesity, bodybuilding, and — to a lesser extent — puberty.

The marathon is a long-distance road running event of 42.195 km (26 mile 385 yards or 26.21875 miles).

Human position refers to a position of a human body. It can also be called a person's attitude or bearing.

A detox diet is a dietary regimen involving a change in consumption habits in an attempt to detoxify the body by removal of toxins or other contaminants.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an umbrella term for a group of respiratory tract diseases that are characterized by airflow obstruction or limitation.

Back pain (also known as "dorsopathy") is pain felt in the human back that may come from the spine, muscles, nerves, or other structures in the back.

Chemical synapses are specialized junctions through which cells of the nervous system signal to one another and to non-neuronal cells such as muscles or glands.

A headache (cephalgia in medical terminology) is a condition of pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be interpreted as a headache.

Transplant rejection occurs when the immune system of the recipient of an transplant attacks the transplanted organ or tissue.

An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal body functioning that can not be synthesized by the body.

Mammary glands are the organs that, in the female mammal, produce milk for the sustenance of the young.

The puffer fish, also called blowfish, swellfish, globefish, balloonfish, bubblefish are fish making up the family Tetraodontidae, within the order Tetraodontiformes.

Chronic pain was originally defined as pain that has lasted 6 months or longer.

The MMR vaccine is a mixture of live attenuated viruses, administered via injection for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the most severe and most frequently reported rickettsial illness in the United States, and has been diagnosed throughout the Americas.

The human brain is the center of the central nervous system in humans as well as the primary control center for the peripheral nervous system.

Kidney stones, also known as nephrolithiases, urolithiases or renal calculi, are solid accretions (crystals) of dissolved minerals in urine found inside the kidneys.

Progesterone is a C-21 steroid hormone involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy (supports gestation) and embryogenesis of humans and other species.

Smog is a kind of air pollution, originally named for the mixture of smoke and fog in the air.

Myopia is a refractive defect of the eye in which images focus in front of the retina. This may be caused by a defect of the lens/cornea or when the shape of the eye is longer then usual.

A circadian rhythm is a roughly 24 hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings, including plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria.

An eye is an organ of vision that detects light. Different kinds of light-sensitive organs are found in a variety of organisms.

The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens. It is made up of 23 chromosome pairs with a total of about 3 billion DNA base pairs.

A microorganism (also spelled as microrganism) or microbe is an organism that is microscopic (too small to be seen by the human eye). The study of microorganisms is called microbiology.

Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect.