In today’s fast-moving society, we are all under tremendous pressure to keep up with life. Most of the working people juggle among work, kids, family, paying bills and other matters with limited time every day. People often forget that in order to fulfill the mandates in life, you need to have enough energy by maintaining a healthy life style with good healthy diet and enough exercise on a consistent basis. It is often too late and expensive in terms of money and time to seek medical treatment on an emergency basis when health problems occur for many of the health related issues can be easily resolved, minimized or even prevented by just eating well and having some routine physical activities.

But exactly how much time should you spend on exercise every day or every other day so that you can be healthy and happy to get on with your lives? What types of physical activities are suitable for you? The answer is it varies with people. Some people need and can spend a lot of time in the gym or outdoors doing different kinds of exercises to burn calories without feeling tired easily, but for some, twenty minutes a day may be just about the right among to keep healthy and energetic. In general, younger people should do more intense physical movements such as running, basketball, workout in the gym; while older people should minimize the impact certain exercise may have on your knees and other joints of your body. Yoga, swimming or may be just walking would be perfect for the older groups.

When it comes to exercise, one of the common and easiest excuses people have is time or lack of it. You often hear people say “I don’t have time to do it”. It may be too harsh to accept that it is just another way of saying “I am lazy” but there is a lot of truth to it. Because exercise often doesn’t mean you need to have several hours of blocked time, to go to the gym, to have all the nice equipment and gears around and or to have a companion. You can do it in piece mill, 3 minutes here and 5 minutes there. It is the accumulative effect that will work in your advantage in the long run.

For instance, it only requires you to have about 10 square feet of space at your home and 5 minutes of your time to do some yoga poses and you can do it while you are reading or watching TV. You don’t need to sign up for yoga classes, some good yoga books will get you started in the right direction. You can buy yoga books, DVDs or just borrow them from your local libraries if money is your primary concern. Read the rest of this entry »