Exercise combined with healthy eating are easily the two most important steps that you can take to improve your fitness and health. Any activity is better than none as it produces positive healthy changes. You should always warm up your muscles and stretch briefly before increasing activity, and don’t forget to drink plenty of water no matter where you exercise.
How to increase activity level?
Here are some 5 ways to boost your activity level and live healthy and fit into your busy lifestyle:
- Start by walking: Do walk every day for 10-20 minutes.
- Cleaning house: Do vigorously perform all the household activities like cleaning house, washing clothes, doing gardening. This will burn your calories and enhance your activity level.
- Using stairs: Use the stairs rather than using escalators or elevators. 5-10 minutes of climbing healthy stairs will make your heart more active with as well as you.
- Treadmill exercise: Do you have a treadmill? Drag that equipment in front of your television so that you have to be using it in order to watch your favorite TV show. Get up and OFF the couch.
- Use your gaming system: Addicted to video games? Use your shiny game system for “exercise” with fun fitness programs from Wii Fit or Xbox Fitness. These programs require skill, agility and movement and are more like playing games than exercising.