Managing a workload or school loads or just making time out for family may seem complicated when trying to incorporate a daily regimen of exercise. Studies show it is important to make exercise a part of your daily life. You may have to juggle dropping off the kids to daycare or to school or car pooling with co-workers or just balancing your own schedule around to just fit in a 1 hour exercise routine. But you will find that it is good for your heart, for cholesterol, blood pressure and even arthritis. The human body is an amazing machine that, if properly maintained, it would go a long way.
Exercise is an important part of my life. It is so amazing how good I feel from just 15 minutes of some form of exercise. I don’t have to exercise for hours at a time. I have incorporated a routine that basically focus on the core of the body like the arms, legs and waist. These types of exercises impact the body’s intensity. It builds strength and stamina. To make exercising exciting and challenging, I watch and exercise to taped programs at home. I time some exercises by the length of commercials instead of that dreadful, boring count. On some days, I speed walk for 45 minutes with 8lb weights in each hands. I have also extended my workout program to outdoor activities such as mowing my yard. And at the end of the week, for fun activities, I bowl in a bowling league. Bowling is fun and rewarding. On the weekends after I have worked out all week, I have my relaxing Saturdays and Sundays to do whatever makes me happy!! So the point is to do something!!! GET MOVING & KEEP MOVING!!!
Happiness is so important to me. I’m very unhappy if I eat food I don’t like
whether it’s good for me or not. People seem to think if a person is around 120 lbs everything is great, but that doesn’t mean they’re in shape. If you want to lose weight, you should eat less but still exercise. If a person has mood swings about getting fit, get motivated by going shopping! When you see that pretty dress or the 2 pc pant suit you’d like to wear but you have to buy a size bigger and you don't like the feeling, get moving! Kick up your "get fit” regimen and get started again! If tracking a daily regimen of your physical activity helps you stay focus, by all means do it.
Eating healthy can get boring but "let your fingers do the walking," like they used to say about the Yellow Pages! Search for new healthy recipes on your computer. The internet is full of them. Once you monitor your overall fitness by the end of each month, frame it! Put it on the refrigerator or the bathroom mirror. You will love seeing your progress to a healthier you.
It is always important to start kids on healthy diet and exercise. I see and hear of the tragic deaths of our young teens every day. Teenagers collapsing on a track field at school or the football field after a hard day of practice. I think computers initiate laziness. We should take away the computer sometimes. You will find yourself eating at the computer; drinking at the computer. The computer has practically taken the place of the television. Back in the day, we wouldn’t sit at the table to eat dinner. We would sit right in front of the TV, eating. Nowadays, kids play video games at the computer all day. Childhood obesity is a national problem and a growing epidemic. Kids are our future and we need to invest in them by trying to keep them healthy.
The First Lady, Michelle Obama gives great inspiration to America's children by making efforts to change the lunch menus by giving kids more healthier snacks to choose from. These small steps will grow into big steps as they become healthy adults. Food and Fitness not only enhance the body good on the inside but on the outside the body as well.
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-written by Y. Bradford