Ways to make exercise as your lifestyle

Easy Ways to Incorporate Exercise into Your Lifestyle:

• PLAY with your kids! Play some kind of game requiring physical movement. They will love you for it, and you will benefit in more ways than you can imagine.
• Videos are a great way for weight loss "newbies" to begin exercising. Low impact is best for beginners and is considered the safest level of impact as far as injury risk goes.
• Participate in a message board to gain and give support from others.
• Keep a journal of your exercises and foods you eat.
• Keep track of your measurements - inches as well as pounds. There is nothing like seeing your progress on paper.
• Dance! (weight-bearing or non-weight-bearing) - You can dance in a health club, in a nightclub, or at home.
• Water Workouts (non-weight-bearing) - Exercising in water helps you feel flexible, strong, at less risk of injury, and refreshed.
• Stretch! Stretching makes you more flexible (to help keep you from getting hurt), makes you feel relaxed, improves your blood flow, and keeps your muscles from getting tight after doing other exercises.
• Tighten your abs while sitting at your desk. When you exhale, pull your stomach in, pushing the air out. Pull your stomach in tightly and a little quickly, and then let it out naturally while you breathe air back into your lungs.
• You will never regret going to the gym, only that you didn't go.
• Moving any part of your body, even for a short time, can make you healthier.