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to make doing "Just One Thing" a realistic goal!
to make doing "Just One Thing" a realistic goal!
Physical Activity refers to any of your body’s movements that use energy and involve contraction of skeletal muscles - so, almost any movement. This includes walking, standing up, taking the stairs, doing household chores, and working in the yard. Exercise is a type of physical activity that is planned, structured and repetitive, done to improve or maintain physical fitness. I usually call it intentional, because you typically have to think about it and do it purposefully to improve your fitness in some way. Or to have fun :) Which should you do? Both! If you currently have a sedentary lifestyle, meaning you don’t get much of either, start incorporating Physical Activity into each day. Just a few examples include:
Once you are physically active throughout the day, add Exercise. This means you get your heart rate up for at least 10 minutes and cannot sing (you can talk but not sing when you are exercising at a moderate exertion). At least four times a week, try one of these (and work up to 30 or more minutes as soon as you can):
Why add physical activity and exercise to your life? Research shows they helps with stress management, weight maintenance, sleep quality, digestion, chronic disease management and prevention, slowed bone loss with age, improved flexibility and balance, and even better pain management of arthritis. The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans from the Department of Health and Human Resources recommends that healthy adults move more and sit less. Read more of their recommendations here. You got this! P.S. I know, this was way more than 200 words! Thanks for hanging in there :)
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