How Long Do I Exercise Daily?

Most experts recommend 60 minutes (1 hour) of moderate physical activity daily (for our age group). Doing more or less depends on how much you eat and what you eat (and how active you are). Athletes generally do more than 1 hour daily and eat more, since they need the energy and burn calories faster. Less physically active people don’t do as much exercise and don’t need as much food. 2013

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

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Exercise Plan? Parts Of Fitness

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First of all, make exercise your top priority. You know the benefits. If you want to look good, feel good, drop excess weight, increase your energy level, and feel relaxed and happy, make the commitment to a healthier life.

Set goals! Set regular, realistic, and measurable goals. Gradually increase your activities. Do everything you need to do to complete your goal.

Reject excuses. Most people come up with plenty of reasons to not exercise. If you avoid these, you are on the way to becoming a healthier “you”.

There are 5 components of fitness... flexibility, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular endurance. Flexibility is the ability to bend and twist your body without it breaking. Flexible people can twist their bodies into positions others cannot. Body composition is the

amount of fat in your body compared to bone and muscle. Muscular strength is the amount of force applied by muscles when used. Muscular endurance is the ability to use a group of muscles over and over without getting tired. Cardiorespiratory endurance is how efficiently your heart and lungs work.

Benefits Of ExerciseExercise releases stress 1Reduces risk of getting diseases 2Increases oxygen flow to your 3brain - improves your memory

Improves self image 4

You can exercise in many different

ways. You don’t and shouldn’t have to

use weights as a teenager, but

something as simple as jogging will

benefit you.

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It takes 70

muscles to speak

a single word!

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By the time you

have reached old age,

you will have walked

enough to go around

the Earth 3 times!

So What?There are many consequences if you don’t exercise... and they are not very pleasant. These effects have changed many people’s lives from happy ones to sad and negative ones.

Fun exercises you can do

Obesity/Being Overweight

Extra weight equals more money spent

More difficult to be active (Lazy)So What?

There are many consequences if you don’t exercise... and they are not very pleasant. These effects have changed many people’s lives from happy ones to sad and negative ones.

Fun exercises you can do

So What?There are many consequences if you don’t exercise... and they are not very pleasant. These effects have changed many people’s lives from happy ones to sad and negative ones.

Fun exercises you can do

Adult and childhood obesity continue to grow. 68% of adults are overweight/obese, and there is a high risk of us being just like them when we are adults, unless we are careful now.

Obesity costs American companies $225.8 billion per year in health-related losses. Average healthcare costs exceed $3000 per person annually. An obese employee costs an employer $460-$2500 more (medical costs).

People are less active now due to technology and better transportation. Physically active jobs only make up 25% of the workforce, which is 50% less than 1950. Physically inactive jobs have increased 83% since 1950.

So What?There are many consequences if you don’t exercise... and they are not very pleasant. These effects have changed many people’s lives from happy ones to sad and negative ones.

Fun exercises you can do

Sit BacksSit down on a flat surface (knees bent) with your arms straight in front. Lean back gradually (keeping your arms straight and abdomen tight). Then return to the starting position slowly and repeat.

Chair squatsStand directly in front of a chair, and do a normal squat, stopping right before you touch the chair. Slowly straighten to standing position and then repeat.

Butterfly BreathStand with feet hip width apart with your ams lifted out to the sides. Exhaling-lift your right knee and touch your left elbow using it. Inhaling-return to the first position. Switch sides and repeat.

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Make Exercise A Habit... Action Plan!

Your plan should be something you want to do, not something you think you should do. Be realistic about your fitness level... if you’re a couch potato, don’t run a marathon! If you’re Usain Bolt... please

don’t take a casual stroll along a rainbow.

Identify problems you might face. Figure out how you can remove those problems so that achieving your goal is easier.

DYK

If you had every

single muscle in your

body work together at the

same time, you could lift

about 50,000

pounds.