Exercise Is The Key To A Healthy Life

Regular exercise strengthens your heart and lungs and it can strengthen bones, slowing down the process of osteoporosis. It can help you move easily by keeping your joints, tendons and ligaments more flexible. Can help you lose weight when combined with good eating habits or maintain ideal weight by burning excess calories and promote sense of well being.

- Norbert D'Souza

Exercise is the key to a healthy life. When it comes to exercise, it does not mean only the strenuous ones and exercising at the gym. Exercise also includes stretching and balancing acts.

Before you decide on any exercise plan for yourself for the entire week, you must talk to your doctor. Try to include exercises that focus on all aspects of your health. Research has shown that incorporating exercise from each of the four categories or types of exercises helps you in various ways rather than doing only a specific type of exercise. Doing each kind of exercise can help you do the other one in a better way.

Each type of exercise has different benefits. Variety in the exercises also reduces boredom and helps you stay motivated.

1. ENDURANCE EXERCISES

Endurance activities are often referred to as aerobics or cardio exercises. These involve exercises that increase your heart rate and breathing.

Benefits of endurance exercises include:

Improved fitness

Ease in performing all the routine activities

Improved health of your heart, lungs, and circulatory system

Physical activities that build endurance include:

Brisk walking

Jogging

Cycling

Swimming

Dancing (such as Zumba)

Climbing stairs