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Your body is meant to move. Useful exercise doesn’t have to require great effort. Vigorous exercise can injure women who aren’t usually active. Routine physical activity can get your body protected. Home chores like vacuuming, washing windows, weeding, carrying the baby, and climbing stairs help maintain and tone the body. Even moderate exercise helps prevent disabling sickness such as obesity, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Benefits from physical exercise make you feel better about yourself. When you exercise you increase flexibility, prevent disease, gain energy, feel more jubilant, improve heart rate, decrease depression, and etc.
Calorie Burning Workshop Even if you think you are a couch potato, you might be surprised at the amount of activity and exercise that you gain. The calories that are burned with each activity are shown below. Activities | Calories Burned by 150 Pound Adult | Weeding garden Standing quietly Walking quickly (4 mph) Shopping Running (7 mph) Cleaning house Cycling (9 mph) Scrubbing floors Aerobic dancing Office work | 311-480 calories 80-120 calories 311-480 calories 121-310 calories 481-625 calories 121-310 calories 311-480 calories 311-480 calories 481-625 calories 121-310 calories |
Exercising regularly is more important than intensity. Light exertion for 30-70 minutes everyday (gardening, bowling, and house repairs) gives you the same health benefits as strenuous exercise three times a week. So, Let’s start it now!
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