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Don't Be A Couch Potato Duo!
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Get moving, but not alone! Here's what twenty minutes a day can do for your twosome.
Couch potatoes, beware! People who exercise regularly have been found to live upto twelve years longer than their couch potato counterparts. If this doesn't inspire you to get moving, what will?
Live longer than couch potatoes
Fact is - merely eating right will not help you live longer. Diet is just a part of the health and longevity equation. So if you are a health conscious couple who believe that putting the right food on the table will ensure you enjoy the sunset years of your life together, wake up!
Experts advise 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic exercise on most days of the week. Read that as five times a week, irrespective of your body weight. That's important - don't perceive exercise as something you engage in only to lose weight.
Thanks to exercise, an overweight (with high body mass index) person who exercises regularly may actually be healthier and live longer (other factors set aside) than a person of normal weight who doesn't exercise. This also suggests that you shouldn't despair if you exercise and still don't seem to be losing weight! To lose and maintain weight loss, experts increase the prescription to an hour of walking every day.
Don't exercise only to lose weight
Exercise will give you and your spouse a host of benefits. Here are a few:
- Longevity
- Improved blood pressure
- Better coronary and lung health
- More efficient digestive system
- Favourable cholesterol and triglyceride levels
- Reduced risk of heart attack and stroke
- Improved brain health and reduced risk of Alzheimer's
- Reduced appetite
- Build better bones and muscle
- Stress relief and spirit enhancer
- A feeling of being more energetic and alert
Fall in love once again - with exercise!
Do you remember the euphoria you felt when you had just fallen in love with your partner? Imagine being able to relive that feeling, every day, with your better half!
That is perhaps the best gift exercise can give you. Here's how - exercise causes the release of mood-enhancing endorphins in the body, which is why regular fitness keeps our spirits high and wards off depression. And if you exercise together, you will both be bubbling with energy and joie de vivre.
So - if you're the kind who reluctantly exercises, but is (more) relieved when it's over, crossover to the group that relishes every opportunity to exercise and looks forward to the next session when one is over.
You will not only enjoy better physical and mental health, but can look forward to a more rewarding and longer-lasting twosome.
Drive your own wellness
If this wake up call has you wondering how to schedule 20 minutes of exercise in your busy schedule, here's another dose from lifestyle disease experts:
Your health, they say, is not a throw of the genetic dice but a factor that is largely under your control.
Apparently, 70 percent of the key factors that influence ageing and health are lifestyle-related, not genetic. Exercise accounts for a large part of this percentage.
When you engage in any aerobic exercise - don't fool yourself into believing that you can't schedule a 20 minute morning walk into your lifestyle - try to also breathe deep. This will calm your mind and keep you positive in the face of stressful situations.
Alternatively, if you use the 20 minutes to engage in strength training exercises, even a couple of times a week, you can also look forward to rebuilding three pounds of muscle and increasing your metabolism by 7 percent after about three months. This added muscle will enhance your bone mass, digestive capability as well as your body's ability to use glucose from the blood.
Think about it - isn't it time you got moving, together?
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