Personal Project 6/19/10 Osteoporosis

1) The actual tasks you completed: I researched osteoporosis and exercises that you can do with it.

2) The progress you made toward your desired outcome(s): This was great I learned a lot of things about prevention, and exercising with it. I feel like I made some good progress to being valuable to a future employer because of understanding the limitations of this disease.

3) The lessons you learned: I learned that for the most part this is a preventive disease. With eating right, exercise, working out, ect. for the most part you can prevent this or prevent the disease from becoming bad.

When you do have osteoporis the way you exercise does need to change because of how easily you can frature a bone. But there are four main parts: cardio, weights, and flexibility. Something that I thought was interesting is that it is good to do weight bearing exercise like walking or the eliptical. Even though swimming is good on your joints it isn't the best eexerise if you have osteporsis becuaes you are not having to bear your weight and strenghen your bones.