Move Your Body. It's All Gain........And Loss Too

Most of us, are so busy with our lives running around, working and have little time for our health and exercise especially. We live our lives busy without moving our muscles… wake up early with little amount of sleep, join the stress of traffic, stress at work, eat unhealthy diets while most of the time gulping it all down because we are in a hurry, spend little time to relax with our family and end the day very tired. On top of all that we do, to add exercise to it would be expecting too much.

Research shows that physical activity can boost self-esteem, mood, brain function, sleep quality and energy, as well as reducing your risk of stress, depression, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

It can also reduce your risk of major illnesses, such as heart disease, high blood cholesterol levels, stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer by up to 50% and lower your risk of early death by up to 30%.

On the loss part, exercise can help prevent excess weight gain or help maintain weight loss. When you engage in physical activity, you burn calories. The more intense the activity, the more calories you burn thus the more weight you lose.

To stay healthy, adults should try to be active daily and aim to achieve at least 150 minutes of physical activity over a week through a variety of activities.

The secret is to up your movement, add activities that suit our lifestyle and can easily be included in our day. You can add any of these to your routine or tweak it to suit you…..just get moving!

•  -Do the activities you enjoy
• - Park a little bit farther from work and walk the remainder of the way.
• - Take a little walk during lunch break.
• - Stand up to take phone calls.
• -Take the stairs instead of the lift, or get out of the lift a few floors early and use the stairs.
• - Set targets daily- use a pedometer to keep track of how many steps you take.
• - Stand up to drink water from another floor, use the printer from another floor. Find reasons to walk around at work every hour.
• - Do leg stretches, butt and abdominal crunches while at your desk.
• - If time is short, any exercise, even ten minutes, is better than none.
• - Split activity throughout the day…in bouts of about 10mins.
• - Walk over to someone's desk at work rather than calling them on the phone or sending an  e-mail.