Stay Healthy And Exercise To Improve Your Corporate Wellness Program
Exercise: Why Fitness Matters
Being fit improves your health.
A lifetime of fitness offers many benefits like:
- Decreasing your risk of health problems, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and some types of cancer.
- Managing your weight.
- Helping you sleep better.
- Preventing or relieving stress, depression, and back problems
- Boosting your energy.
You need to continue exercising to keep these benefits. Your main goal is to make fitness a lifetime commitment. Build a fitness plan that you can stick with. Choose activities you like. Go slowly, especially when just starting out. Work up to being active 30 minutes on most days. Aim for a total of 150 or more minutes a week.
Why Be Fit? Here is why….
Online Medical Reviewer: Bellendir, Trina, MSPT, CLT
Online Medical Reviewer: Topiwala. Shehzad. MD
Date Last Reviewed: 5/9/2015
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