Getting in shape physically is a wonderful way of building your confidence and self-image. It’s not easy to feel confident if you’re overweight, and exhausted after climbing a flight of stairs. Health and fitness are just like any other areas of life: get the causes right and the effects come right too. This means, for instance, sensible eating, good breathing and posture, regular exercise and plenty of laughter and relaxation. The recipe for better health, maximum energy, minimum illness and an extended lifespan has a familiar ring to it: Choose fitness: make it your intention to be healthy. Think health and fitness. Imagine yourself in peak condition. Act ‘as if’ you want to be as fit and healthy as possible. Give your body what it needs, and it will return the favour! “A vigorous walk will do more for an unhappy butotherwise healthy adult than all the medicine andpsychology in the world. Paul Dudley White”
Just 20 Minutes Aerobic Exercise A Day Is Quite Sufficient To Enable Mostpeople To Maintain Good Health
Make small adjustments to your lifestyle. Leave the car at home. Walk or cycle to work. Get off the bus a few stops earlier. Replace the electric lawn mower with a manual. Use the stairs instead of the lift. It’s not hard to find convenient ways of being more active.
Spend a few moments daily bending and stretching to loosen the muscles and keep them supple. Buy an exercise video or audio tape, for example, of simple yoga exercises which are extremely beneficial and are not that time-consuming.
Once you’ve started, don’t stop. It’s easier to get out of shape than into it. It only takes a couple of weeks of inactivity to fall back to where you started.