22 | Healthy Living
KEEPING
FIT FOR LIFE
NEVER EXERCISED BUT WANT TO START? HERE’S THE LOWDOWN ON HOW YOU CAN GET MOVING WHATEVER
YOUR AGE. BUT THERE’S NO NEED TO PUSH YOURSELF TOO HARD, SINCE JUST 30 MINUTES OF MODERATE-
INTENSITY ACTIVITY FIVE DAYS A WEEK WILL PRODUCE SOME GREAT RESULTS.
xercise is powerful medicine.
It’s one of the most important
involve the experts
Eways you can improve your
health. So why is it so challenging
Before you get started, check with your
family doctor, especially if you’re just
to get started? New habits are
starting out, have health problems or
hard to make and old habits are
are pregnant. Then, depending on your
hard to break. That’s a daunting
exercise plan, talk to another expert. A
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combination. But exercise is worth
trainer or exercise physiologist can help
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the effort at every age! Whether
you create and follow a program that’s
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right for you.
A common
you want to be a champion runner
misunderstanding about
or you just want to be able to walk Make sure you warm up properly and
exercise is that it must be
stop exercising if you feel faint or dizzy.
up the stairs without having to stop
painful to be effective and that
Consult your doctor before you start any
and catch your breath, read on to you must do it for long periods of
new regime and work with a trainer who
time to see results. Not so! While
fi nd out about the different types
understands your limitations and needs.
a good workout should present a
of exercise you should undertake
Listen to your body. If you feel pain, stop
bit of a challenge and may even
depending on your age and fi tness and scale back.
cause some mild soreness, it
level. Remember, you’re never too
shouldn’t cause pain.
young or too old to start exercising.
CHILDREN AND TEENS you envisioned or the ballerina you GET MOVING!
once aspired to be. Focus instead on
A good goal for adolescents is what your children do enjoy, and Just about any activity is better
activity just about every day, with support them in those activities. than none. A good starting goal
continuous moderate to vigorous Encourage them to join teams and is simply to increase your level of
activity (for 20 minutes or more at leagues both in and out of school so activity from its current level. Think
a time) at least three times a week. they get exercise and make friends creatively, do light fl oor exercises as
For elementary-age children, a little with other active children. you’re watching TV, take the dog for
more exercise is better, at least 30 a walk or put your child in a stroller
to 60 minutes on all or most days, Exercise is also a great way and go. You get the idea ... just get
with some periods of continuous to introduce family time. By up and move!
moderate to vigorous activity (for helping your children develop an
ten to 15 minutes at a time). appreciation for physical activity If you’re feeling like it’s too late to get
at a young age, you’re giving them started, keep in mind that exercise
Activity for children and teens a tool that will help keep them is the best way to beat middle-age
can range from play and family healthier for life. Try to exercise weight gain and osteoarthritis.
activities to sports, physical together, from a weekly swim to Remaining active as we age can
education and other ‘formal’ types hike in a nearby forest. It will be make a signifi cant contribution
of exercise. Support your children’s more fun if you do it as a family, toward maintaining independence
interests, and don’t worry if your so don’t just stand there taking and gaining maximum enjoyment
child isn’t the basketball hotshot pictures, join in! in our later years.
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