Stay Healthy With Exercise Even If You Don’t Have Much Time

It is a well-recognized fact that regular physical exercise supplemented by a nourishing and healthy diet is a must for healthy living. Physical exercise has immense health benefits and can greatly reduce the risk of diseases, especially cardiac diseases, improve metabolism and
strengthen your bones.

In modern times, occupational constraints and the changing structure of society has contributed vastly to sedentary lifestyles that limit physical activity. In such a situation any opportunity for movement should be viewed with favour rather than be considered as an inconvenience. One needs to try to be active in many ways as possible throughout the day.

As there are very minimum people with sedentary lifestyles, they should ensure that they are engaged in at least thirty minutes of physical activity of moderate intensity on many days of the week as possible, preferably on all days. Those who can should try to engage in vigorous exercise regularly to attain better health and fitness levels.

Everyone who has tried knows how difficult it is to stick to a strict regimen of exercise, especially in the face of paucity of time due to busy modern lifestyles. However, it can still be possible to attain a minimum level of fitness through 30 minutes of activity every day. Even this may prove difficult to do at a stretch. What you can do is to break it down into 3 stretches of 10 minutes each of physical activity and spread it over the day. To make it easier, you can use whatever you usually do in the course of your daily activities to carry out these exercises.

For example, while commuting to the office and back home you can get off the train/bus one stop before your destination and walk the rest of the way. When in the office or at home avoid using the elevator and use the stairs instead. Even sitting at your desk, you can do neck rolls
and arm raises i.e. pushing your arms towards your side and then towards the ceiling. Do some
modified push ups at the edge of your desk.

Take a walk after lunch. Go walking to the local grocery store; don't drive. While watching TV, get up during ads and jog or skip, where you are. You can add some more time for exercise this way. Don't forget to take a swim at the pool, whenever you get the time.

Playing with the kids in the garden can give you some good exercise. In the mornings, set your alarm to wake you up five minutes earlier and skip a rope or do stretching exercises, before you jump under the shower. All these are excellent ways to exercise, when you find yourself unable to spare time, specially dedicated to exercising.

If you can maintain a small gym at home, there can be nothing better. No fancy equipment is required. You can create a nice gym without much expenditure or space, using simple things like exercise bands, a stability ball, a skipping rope and a pair of dumbbells and you can get quite good results.

Coupled with healthy food and eating habits, these are great ways of exercising to stay fit and healthy, when you are hard pressed for time that you can devote to physical exercise.