Why exercise

Even if you lose weight on a diet, you should begin an exercise regimen. Exercise is more important than you might think. The benefits of regular physical activity affect every aspect of your daily life.

Exercise with ease of movement helps, builds strong muscles, improves your position, your joints is more stable, reduces chronic pain and leads to better sleep patterns and emotional well-being.

In addition, it can almost plateshow - of any age-take advantage of the health effects of exercise. It is never too late to start, is a more active and your health to improve and maintain your weight. Published a study a few years ago in the journal of the American Medical Association showed people, start the work until their mid-6 cut of their risk of dying from disease not by half.

Exercise reduces the risk for several diseases including heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, hypertension or high blood pressure, breast cancer, osteoporosis and colon cancer.

Reports have shown many health problems attributed to lack of physical activity, including high blood pressure and diabetes type II. research has shown even a direct link between the immune system function and movement.

If you are a man over 40, women more than 50, or if you have been inactive for a long period, the US Surgeon General recommends consultation with your doctor before embarking on a serious fitness regime.

You have to then health risks be aware that there are and explain pre-existing medical conditions, the it your activity level (e.g., respiratory diseases, etc.) have an impact.

Check your performance and progress to keep a fitness journal. Write down the type of exercise, duration, repetition (when weight training) and intensity. Check regularly to get a line on your progress.

An once weekly weigh-in will be to keep track of your weight enough. An important factor to consider when weighing in to start working from the is, the Übung--primarily strength building-can cause a slight increase in weight (or a plateau). This is due to the fact that muscle weighs more than fat.

So a bit in the scale could be a good thing: an increase in muscle mass mass.

Even if your scale tells you otherwise, you know that you lose weight if your clothes start fitting more loosely.

There were several different recommendations on such as oft-- and how lange-- exercise in the last few years.

The World Health Organization recommends maintaining an hour a day of moderate activity most days of the week, good health and a healthy body weight.

It is important to hear when you first start a therapy training on your own body. Not only you risk injury by doing too much too soon, but you're also far less likely to stick if you push himself too far to start with it.

It is also important to choose activities, such as most of you already enjoy, so you'll probably continue to exercise. If you like dancing, are changes, for example, that you will enjoy aerobics.

Try a few different types of exercise because with variety in your training improves your opportunities for continuation. Always in more than one type of exercise, same thing doing more than help you to stay motivated day after day. In groups in the Y, aerobics video and a brisk walk outside indoor mix. Not only will it keep things interesting, but each brings its own additional advantages (such as fresh air in the free new people at the Y, etc..).

If you could problems, decide on a type of exercise, the response be as simple as a foot to the other. Walking is an ideal exercise for many reasons, including its low risk of injury and can it almost anywhere.

Pedometer is a great motivational tool, so that could be buying one of the best fitness investment you will ever meet. A pedometer, costs less than $5 and will be much more value if you use it to set and meet daily step goals:

Studies have shown that people who every day are less than 5,000 steps rather go to be overweight, while those are likely to be more normal weight to the more than 9,000 steps.

While you are still overweight, should your goal to participate in some type of physical activity for at least 30 minutes five days a week. You can work your way in your own time, to.

It is absolutely reasonable in the meantime working out three times a week. In addition, the activity must be a "Marathon"session on the stair climber... three 10-minute walks a day will do the trick.

Sources:

Tudor lock C., b.e. Ainsworth, et. Al., "the relationship between pedometer determines ambulatory activity and body composition variables". International journal of obesity related metabolic disorders. 25 Nov 2001 (11) 1571-78.

WHO: Diet, nutrition and prevention of chronic diseases. SER WHO organ tech., 2003; 916: i-VIII, 1-149.

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