Any Exercise is Good
From BBC Health News comes a report on a study that shows that even mild exercise three days a week can help forestall the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle:
‘Even light exercise’ aids health
Even low levels of weekly exercise could help reduce blood pressure and improve fitness, scientists say.Experts say walking for half an hour, five days a week, is the minimum required to achieve health benefits.
But a Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health report from Northern Ireland found walking on just three days a week gave similar benefits.
The finding could encourage those with sedentary lifestyles to take up exercise gradually, the authors say.
This could be helpful as few people currently meet the minimum recommendations for exercise, with many saying they do not have enough time.
Read the rest of the article HERE.
I find it really hard to exercise in the heat of Kuwait. If you go out during the day, it is like living in an oven. And even hitting the pool is difficult when you are surrounded by oogling eyes. I have exercise equipment . . . and I don’t use it as often as I SHOULD. Aaarrgh.
But I love articles like this that get me moving, that give me hope that even though I am not as fit as I would like to be, any exercise is helpful. Bye! Off to the pool now!
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I have a -very expensive- gym membership that I do not use as much as I SHOULD! loooool
Yes, exercising is like hell for me. The heat makes no difference whatsoever 😛
I found that the best way for me is to do something with friends, so we can laugh and talk and make the time go faster. Otherwise, it is just BORING!
I find that too – if I workout with friends the time flies by and I don’t even notice that I’m getting a workout.
And it IS like an oven outside right now – I came home after getting groceries and had to have a shower; walking up the steps to my place was a sweltering experience!
we’ve been swimming every evening, which I even have to push myself to go and do – I think it’s the lack of social interaction that makes me drag my heels. Like you, I just don’t like excersizing in the first place – but if you add boredom to it, well yeesh…. lol no wonder I procrastinate!
Ohhh, heaven! Swimming at night, floating, looking up in the sky! How wonderful!