Exercise Program: Easy ways to stay Fit
by David on March 6, 2010
There’s a good chance we have something in common, you and I. Like many people, I can only wish for the luxury of an idle hour or two to fritter away at the gym every day. Fortunately, a little exercise can go along way, and you don’t always need a high-powered exercise program to improve your physical fitness.
Numerous fitness instructors have praised the effects of a new approach called integrative exercise. This theory is all about baby steps, as opposed to one long session of hard training. Basically, proponents of integrative exercise realize that the sedentary lifestyle enjoyed by modern humans is responsible for a lot of our fitness problems. For thousands of years, all the way up until the last century, the definition of a job as “sitting at a desk or computer all day” would have been unimaginable for most people.
If you don’t have time for the gym, you can still get little bits of exercise all day long with minimum effort. Everyday things like walking the dog and washing the car by hand instead of at a drive-through can add up. It’s always good to get your heart rate up, even if it’s for only a few minutes. For example, take the stairs instead of the elevator. This will only cost you a few minutes, but it might burn off a bite or two of that egg mcmuffin. Instead of spending ten minutes hunting for that elusive parking spot right next to the entrance, park at the end of the lot and hoof it. If it’s busy, you’ll probably get inside more quickly anyway.
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