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Jumpstart Your Way to Wellness and a Healthy life With Exercise May 31, 2007
Posted by Wen in : Exercising , trackbackHow many times have you gone to sleep at night, swearing you’ll go to the gym in the morning, and then changing your mind just eight hours later because when you get up, you don’t feel like exercising?
While this can happen to the best of us, it doesn’t mean you should drop the ball altogether when it comes to staying fit. What people need to realize is that staying active and eating right are critical for long-term health and wellness — and that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The more you know about how your body responds to your lifestyle choices, the better you can customize a nutrition and exercise plan that is right for you.
When you eat well, increase your level of physical activity, and exercise at the proper intensity, you are informing your body that you want to burn a substantial amount of fuel. This translates to burning fat more efficiently for energy.
In other words, proper eating habits plus exercise equals fast metabolism, which, in turn gives you more energy throughout the day and allows you to do more physical work with less effort.
The true purpose of exercise is to send a repetitive message to the body asking for improvement in metabolism, strength, aerobic capacity and overall fitness and health. Each time you exercise, your body responds by upgrading its capabilities to burn fat throughout the day and night, Exercise doesn’t have to be intense to work for you, but it does need to be consistent.
I recommend engaging in regular cardiovascular exercise four times per week for 20 to 30 minutes per session, and resistance training four times per week for 20 to 25 minutes per session. This balanced approach provides a one-two punch, incorporating aerobic exercise to burn fat and deliver more oxygen, and resistance training to increase lean body mass and burn more calories around the block.
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away then you got to add half an hour of exercise a day keeps your fitness worries away. Usually experts in exercise specialize in one of many kinds of exercises. Choose what motivates you more than the others. If you get galvanized by yoga then go get a yoga mat and most importantly persist! If you derive you energy from playing with medicine balls, go do it. As long as you do some kind of aerobic and some an aerobics thirty minutes a day you will just do fine.
More on healthy exercising tips on the next post!
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It not only keeps the body physically and mentally fit but also provides recreational and mental relaxation. Exercise also plays an important role in the treatment of depression.
It is natures best tranquillizer. Exercise produce chemical and psychological changes that improve your mental health. It changes the levels of hormones in the blood and elevates your mood affecting brain chemicals. Exercise may also improve the function of the autonomic nervous system.
Don’t just be fit, feel fit!
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