maintaining healthy body

Regular exercise is good for your health. A moderate amount of activity performed three to five days per week can:

Improve your heart health
Improve your heart disease risk factors
Improve your strength and feeling of well-being
Improve your heart health:
Reduce the risk of dying from heart disease
Help your heart and cardiovascular system work more efficiently
Decrease symptoms of angina (chest discomfort) and heart failure
Improve your heart disease risk factors
Reduce risk of developing diabetes and high blood pressure
Improve blood sugar tolerance if you have diabetes
Help control high blood pressure, by as much as 8 to 10 points in both systolic and diastolic pressure.
Improve blood lipids (cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglycerides) along with other strategies (diet and medications).
Support efforts to stop smoking
Control weight and reduce body fat
Improve your strength and feeling of well-being:
Helps keep muscles, bones, and joints healthy
Increase your ability to do daily activities without getting tired
Improve your balance and flexibility
Maintain muscle tone, improve your posture, and reduce the risk of falling and fracturing bones
Lessen feelings of anxiety or depression
Improve your sense of well-being and help you feel good about yourself
To be safe and give you the most benefit, your program should be:
Aerobic: this type of activity increases the rate and depth of your breathing, raises your heart rate and uses the large muscle groups. Examples include walking, cycling or swimming.
Regular: moderate intensity activity performed on most days of the week (starting with small amounts of activity and building up to 30 to 40 minutes of continuous activity, or if you prefer, 10 minutes increments throughout the day to equal 30 to 40 minutes
Safe: adults with health problems (such as heart disease, diabetes or obesity) or those at high risk, men over age 40 and women over age 50 should talk with their doctor before starting an