Do you want to live longer and in better health?Of course you do.Regular aerobic exercise can help you avoid chronic diseases. It can also lower cholesterol and help control your weight.
We all know that we need to have some aerobic exercise in our daily routine.The good thing is that we can get aerobic exercise by doing things that we already love to do.It is important to make sure that we schedule these activities into our lives everyday.
Have you ever wanted to take a nice romantic stroll through the park with your loved one?Noticing all the lovely things that nature has to offer us.Well here is an easy way to take that walk with your loved one and get a greater benefit than the scenery around you.Make it a power walk!Sounds like work?Call it something else like a date with that someone special where the two of you get to get in that aerobic exercise that you both need.
Aerobic exercise is movement, such as walking, that gets your heart pumping and increases your oxygen intake.It can help you live a longer and healthier life. Just 30 minutes a day of aerobic exercise is one of the best things you can do for your health.
Did you know that aerobic exercise can also have a positive affect on your cholesterol level?Yes, it’s true!Ok you have heard of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol but you don’t really know how it works.HDL (high density lipoprotein) is the good cholesterol and LDL (low density lipoprotein) is the bad cholesterol.HDL or good cholesterol carries cholesterol away from the arteries and back to the liver, where it’s passed from the body.LDL or bad cholesterol is the main cholesterol carrier in the blood.Iftoo much LDL cholesterol circulates in the blood, it can slowly build up in the walls of the arteries feeding the heart and brain and clogging the arteries.So, regular aerobic exercise increases HDL cholesterol, which lowers the risk of heart disease.
So now that you know about how cholesterol levels can be improved by aerobic exercise let’s get back to ways that you can get your aerobic exercise in without having to do the types of exercise that you don’t like.If walking isn’t your thing there are many other ways to get a workout. Think of one of the hobbies or interest that you have or had when you had time to have them and assess a way to make that hobby into an aerobic exercise.If you are having a hard time with this here are some suggestions of hobbies that you may have once had or that you would like to make a hobby.Dancing, swimming, bicycling, skiing, running, jogging, anything aquatic, stair climbing (ok that one may not to be able to be considered a hobby but it is a good source of aerobic exercise), or elliptical training.
Use your imagination and make this fun.Workouts don’t have to be painful.Oh and always remember to take a friend with you.It is more fun to have that aerobic exercise with a friend, even if you are unable to talk to them because you can barely breathe yourself, and you both will benefit from the workout.
So get busy and something that is good for yourself.It is a reward that you deserve, and your heart will thank you for it. You will feel better, sleep better, and be more healthy, so why not take 30 minutes or so a day and do that for yourself?