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The benefits of a habit of exercise are well known, though there are still plenty of people that dont do what they can to ensure they get the exercise they need. A good fitness program can reduce heart disease and help control your weight. Even if youre getting less than the recommended amount of exercise in your fitness program, remember that somethings better than nothing, and dont let the fact that youre getting less allow you to talk yourself into doing no exercise. Here are a few tips to increase the amount of exercise you get in a day:

Walk!

Though sometimes people forget it, even walking is a form of exercise, and one thats low impact enough for most people to add to their fitness programs. Your walks can be short or long, and you dont even have to walk fast to get some sort of benefit from it. One simple way to increase the distance you walk during the day is to park a little further away from the building when you drive in to work in the morning or if you stop at the mall on the weekends. Grabbing one of the far away and undesired spots also has the benefit of reducing the amount of time spent searching for that perfect spot up close!

Stretch at Home

Another small thing you can do to enhance your fitness program at home is to take a few minutes to stretch your muscles daily. This more than the stretch you do when you get out of bed, its really working to get the muscles of your legs, arms, and back feeling good and loose. This is an activity that can be done in just a few minutes, and not only can it feel good, but a good stretching routine can help you to avoid backaches from long hours at your desk at work, and can also help prevent injuries from overly tight muscles if you decide to add anything more strenuous to your fitness program.

Exercise at the TV

If youre a couch potato, dont let that stop you from having a fitness program that keeps you from putting on too much poundage while watching the television. If you havent been in a gym lately, you may not know that many of them have televisions in them to keep bored exercisers occupied while theyre working on the treadmill. Rather than go to the gym to watch TV, though, you can bring the gym to you while youre catching your favorite shows! Walking or running on a treadmill or sitting on a stationary bike, or even doing jumping jacks, while youre watching television can be the basis of a strong fitness program. As with the other options listed, the basis for a good fitness program that motivates you is small changes in your life that get you in the habit of practicing great fitness. Get started soon-all it takes is a little change!

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Outdoor Air is Good For You
By Louanne Baelde

 We should not depend on only ventilating our homes in order to have good air quality and health. If we think more towards an outdoor life, we will enjoy good health and longevity. Even the air in the best ventilated home, is not anywhere close to being as good as outdoor air. It's very advantageous to try to get a lot of fresh air by taking a drive in the countryside or enjoying some time at camp.

Climate is also something to consider. Not everyone can have the option of living in what is considered the best climate of the world. One advantage of fresh air, is that it can be enjoyed in almost any locale. Even so, the city outdoor air is even stimulating.

Damp air is often exaggerated as being unhealthy. While air that is moderately dry can be advantageous, it is however true that even damp, foggy, out-of-doors air is healthier than closed-up indoor air.

Research has shown that students that study in an open-window environment miss less at school for reasons of colds and other illnesses and will also learn more quickly. Parents should try to pursue fresh air for their children in the classroom. They should also insist on the option of playgrounds in the school yard.

Parents should also remember to take care that they are also getting plenty of fresh air by sometimes having picnics, visits to the nearby parks and hiking or biking trails, or other outdoor outings.

Whenever possible, outdoor activities should be selected before indoor activities such as doing farm work, gardening, picking apples or berries over working in a factory. Large numbers of population choose to leave the country to go to the city to become prosperous. This can at times be disastrous when wealth is in pursuit of health.

Realistically most people cannot be living outdoors all of the time. There is however usually some time during the 24-hour day when one can assure to get some fresh air from the outdoors. This can be done in the evening. One third of the time we spend of our day, is in bed. Because most of us confine ourselves indoors so much during the day, we should try to practice good air hygiene in the evening.

Good health can be attained in the simplest ways by sleeping in an outdoor sleeping porch or even an open or window tent. In previous years, people who suffered from tuberculosis were occasionally encouraged to sleep outdoors as a health measure, and would often conquer their disease much quicker.

It is a very good idea to protect yourself from the wind when sleeping in an outdoor area. Keep in mind that too many blankets next to the skin is not healthy.

It is very healthy to practice deep breathing exercises when outdoors. These should be practiced by breathing slowly through the nose and not through the mouth. An oriental deep-breathing exercise is to press on one side of the nose with one's finger, to close one of the nostrils, while breathing at the same time through the other nostril. By paying attention, we can know by the slight sounds of the air passing through, if the breathing is regular or irregular. These breathing exercises can be done at about three breaths per minute, and then slowly reduce it to maybe one or two per minute.

Deep breathing in itself is a fantastic exercise if done slowly. Forced rapid breathing can be harmful.

When one sings, one breaths deeply. Singing is therefore healthy!

Our mental condition is in close relation to our breathing. If we are nervous we will tend to keep trying to catch our breath. Slow even breaths promote calmness and relaxation. This is why in the East especially, breathing exercises are practiced as a way of achieving mental poise and aid in a religious life.


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