Exercise: Working Out the Details

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Why is it recommended that you work out three to five times a week? For decades, experts have known that working out helps to do more than just promote weight loss.

It alleviates stress, helps to lower cholesterol, promotes joint health and keeps your blood pressure low. In many ways, these benefits overshadow any weight loss you may achieve.

What sort of exercise is best? It can be as simple as walking for 30 minutes at a brisk pace.

Many people can be turned off by the idea of prolonged exercise sessions and, as a result, lack any real fitness program in their day-to-day lives. But any physical rigorousness that you can complete in a given day can be interpreted as exercise.

Consider taking a half hour every other day and walking around your neighborhood or, during inclement weather, the mall; this is a viable exercise routine that virtually anyone can complete.

Some other types of exercise include:

• Light weightlifting using hand weights or reasonable household objects;

• Sit-ups;

• Push-ups; and

• Any imaginable activity that will raise your heart rate and keep it elevated for approximately 30 minutes.

For those of you who are more ambitious, personal gyms offer a variety of classes. Typically meeting once or twice a week for about an hour, classes include martial arts, cardio routines and almost any amalgam of activities that elevate your heart rate.

When you combine one of these classes with alternating cardio or weightlifting sessions, you create a well-rounded exercise regimen that promotes physical well-being. Not only will you look better, you will feel better and be more energetic!

Once you start a regular schedule of exercise, you will almost immediately begin to feel a difference. This will help motivate you to exercise on those days that you just don’t feel like working out.

In fact, many of us lack motivation to exercise. But in time it will become part of your day-to-day life—something that you simply cannot live without. We can help you develop an exercise program that will match your physical abilities and fitness goals.

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