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Making Exercise Fit Into Your Schedule: How to Do It and Why You ShouldThe benefits of regular exercise have become increasingly well-known. Some of the known benefits include improved cardiovascular health-from lowering blood pressure to improving
cholesterol counts, strengthening muscles and bones, helping to fight depression, lowering risk of breast and colon cancer, and, of course, improving your physical appearance. Some of the benefits, such as improved cardiovascular health, derive mostly from cardiovascular exercise, whereas other benefits such as building stronger muscles and bones, come primarily from resistance training. A good exercise program will incorporate both types of exercise.
Unfortunately, the busy schedules many people face hinder adding regular exercise into their daily schedule. This can be particularly unfortunate because most of our daily lives are spent in sedentary activity. We work in offices, sit around and watch TV, and the most walking we typically get involves strolling from the parking to our office or shopping mall.
In this section of the magazine, though, we hope to show you that you need not struggle to fit exercise into our daily schedules. Nor do we necessarily need to pay for an expensive gym membership that we rarely use to get in better shape. Rather, we can fit
exercise into our daily schedules and thereby improve our quality of life as well as our appearance by following some basic steps. Even something as intimidating as weight training can be performed with only a minimal time commitment and still yield significant results.
In future articles, we'll describe more fully the benefits of exercise as well as show you additional ways to incorporate exercise into our daily lives. So, please delve into the articles listed in the box above and exercise* your way to a better life!
*Before starting any exercise program, please consult your physician. None of the articles here are intended to take the place of medical advice and are for informational purposes only. Should you experience pain, shortness of breath, or dizziness during any physical activity, stop immediately and see a physician.