Exercise – A Missing Element of Our Lives

With the progress and urbanization people have become more sedentary and have adopted the worst lifestyle model of food habits. So it becomes important to take care of health first. A balance between diet and a proper exercise regime can only give a good health. Health can be defined as being free from disease physically with proper calm of mind. Improper health can lead to a number of diseases related to heart and mind.

But an important question that comes in the mind of many of us is what is the apt amount of exercise that is needed by us. F.I.T.T (Frequency, Intensity, Type of exercise and Time) is the perfect guide that can help us while planning our health regime.

Building simple physical activities in our daily routine is the foremost step, which can help a long way. Walking or cycling or playing in the comfort of a health club can be of help. One can simply start by slow walking or playing any sport of choice.

There are many different types of exercise available for different individuals, aerobic exercise and callisthenics exercise being two of them. Aerobic exercise such as jogging, swimming, basketball etc helps in building up stamina of the body and also reduces fat. It improves the breathing and is beneficial for the heart and lungs.

Calisthenics exercises on the other hand warms and cools you before and after aerobic exercise. They improve in strengthening muscles and building endurance and flexibility.

The recommended physical activity guidelines from a range of expert bodies (including the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence in the UK and the American College of Sports Medicine) suggest that to improve your health, you should build up to being physically active at a moderate intensity for 30 minutes, five days a week So what matters at end is not the amount of physical activity performed but the little effort made which is better than no effort made.

In our modern busy lives where physical works have been replaced by machines it isn't a magic amount of exercise you need to do to get a benefit, the key is to make an effort and persevere.