Facts About Exercise That Every Woman Should Know

Exercise is one important key to healthy living. Enormous benefits of exercise to keep the body healthy and fit as well as reducing the risk of diseases such as heart attack, stroke, or diabetes. High workload often leave you unable to exercise regularly. Even for women who spend more time as a housewife, often feel lazy to exercise. 

But here are some facts about exercise that can help you understand the importance of regular exercise to make the body healthy and fit, in order to help motivate you to exercise:

• A study recommends to do brisk walking for 3 hours or more in one week. This activity can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by 65 %

• As many as 25 % of adults in America, with the largest percentage of whom are women, lack of physical activity every day. After the age of 44 years, more than 30 % of the women decreased their activity, and at the age of 65 years, this percentage rose nearly 35 %. Then at the age of 75 years, 50 percent of these women is lack of physical activity.

• Only about 22 % of American adults who exercise diligently, they do exercise at least 30 minutes, 5 times a week, but only 15 % of which are capable of performing regular exercise.

• Do not mind your fitness condition is not good right now, you can start practicing on a regular basis so that your fitness level increases and you become more healthy.

• Adding movement to your daily activities can improve your fitness. For example, if you are quick five-minute walk from the car park to the office, then walked up and down stairs 10 minutes, and the streets for 10 at home, means you have to practice until 30 minutes in the day.

• Women who suffer from heart disease or arthritis actually experience the benefits of daily exercise regularly, that is increasing their fitness.

• Fitness consists of four components, namely the body's ability to use oxygen as an energy source, known as cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition.

So the conclusion is:

• To run all the components of fitness, you need to include aerobic exercise in your workout program, which will increase your heart rate.

• Brisk walking will burn calories as much as you do jogging the same distance.

• Feel the increased fitness and endurance as you start applying this regular exercise in your lifestyle.

By understanding the facts about this sport, there is no reason for you not to exercise. Be diligent exercising and start from the simplest level such as walking or running, to improve fitness and your health