Get up and MOVE!
As little as 15 minutes exercise a day can lengthen your life by three years, according to a new study of 400,000 people over eight years. That’s great news for all the folks out there who don’t manage the 30 minutes per day minimum recommended by the World Health Organisation.
The study, conducted by the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan, included people of all ages, and with varying health conditions. The researchers found that everybody benefited by the exercise, even smokers, diabetics and people with high blood pressure.
As you would expect, the benefits were greater for those who did more exercise every day but the results showed that as little as 15 minutes had a surprisingly large effect on health compared to no exercise.
That 15 minutes exercise not only added three years to the lifespan (compared to those who did no exercise) it also reduced the risk of cancer by 10% and the risk of heart disease by 25%.
Of course, the more exercise the better but those people who find it hard to find the time or motivation to do 30 minutes can now aim to incorporate 15 minutes knowing that it will have benefits for their health.
Denver Oliveux from Looking Good and Feeling Great Personal Training in Penrith gives the following 5 tips:
1. Choose something fun to do like walking, dancing, sport ect. The more fun your exercise is the more likely that you will follow through with your workouts.
2. Aim to be social while exercising - having an exercise buddy with you makes it more interesting and fun. Also you become more accountable to your exercise knowing that someone else is relying on you as well.
3. If you don’t like training in the gyms or outdoors there are many DVD’s that you can exercise to. Often these DVD’s require little to no extra equipment.
4. Aim to do your exercise first thing in the morning - if you leave exercise to the last moment it will rarely happen. For that reason aim to get into your exercise as quick as possible.
5. Plan your workouts in advance, it’s not enough to simply say 'I may or may not do exercise today' you have to plan out your days if you’re going to maintain consistent healthy patterns.
Source for Nation Health Institute study: http://www.newscientist.com/
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