The Need For Daily Exercise. 20 minutes of right exercise can prolong your health/life

Exercise strengthens not only our muscles, but our entire organism, including our minds.

Specific Benefits of Exercise
As humans age and vitality is lessened and when they are ill, exercise is very much needed, even though this idea may be contrary to popular thinking. Exercise is essential to keep the heart and lungs in good condition, to keep the blood and other fluids replenished and their movements active. Exercise is needed to improve the digestion and to encourage elimination of the toxins. 

There must always be at least a fifteen- to thirty-minute period of vigorous conditioning, aerobic activity. This would include such exercises as jogging, brisk walking, intense swimming, fast bicycling, even repeated stair climbing or hill hiking. Whatever the exercise may be, it must make the heart beat faster, the pulse increase, the breathing deepen, and the entire metabolism quicken. This pace should be maintained as long as comfortable, with an eventual goal of twenty to thirty minutes or longer. In the beginning, work up to such intense activity gradually. Increase your speed and time as your body responds favorably.People who choose to run or walk as their primary exercise should also include a sequence of exercises to work the upper portion of the body, such as weight-lifting or a racquet sport. 


The Three Rules o f Exercise

To insure health and well-being, exercise must be
1) Progressive ---  means that you progress from easy to more vigorous activity as your strength and capabilities increase.
2) Systematic --- simply an activity that conditions all areas of the body.

3)Habitual --- Perhaps that most important of these three for an insured successful exercise regimen is that it be habitual


Fortunately, there is an easy way of introducing exercise and vigorous activity into everyone's normal lifestyle. It's something that most people start doing after the first few months of life: walking.

For walking to be an effective form of exercise, generally an hour or more each day is required. This hour may be worked up to by splitting the time into two thirty- minute periods, three twenty-minute sessions, or even four fifteen-minute outings if the person is old or out of shape.  

DID YOU KNOW !!
When walking is neglected and is no longer part of your daily lifestyle, the posture is the first to go. As a person sits more and walks less, the head droops forward and pulls the spine with it. This slumping is then accelerated by gravity, and you become round-shouldered, hunched over-much like the primitive caveman who once scampered on all fours.