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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Exercise Schedule for Women

Exercise Schedule for Women
Fitting the right exercises into your exercise schedule is a critical element if you aim to have a fit and healthy body. Many a times, sticking to a rigid exercise schedule is very difficult for working professionals as well as homemakers. There are many kinds of interruptions that can break your exercise schedule, even if you spend most of your day at home. To follow an exercise schedule that suits your lifestyle and physical needs is very essential to both stay fit as well as healthy. For homemakers and stay-at-home moms, we suggest the following small but effective exercises to suit their requirements:
• Running or jogging for short distances:
Although it might be a little taxing to fit in an elaborate exercise schedule in your routine household chores, but running or jogging are simple and easy exercises. They are simple cardiac exercises and very beneficial for your health and effective in maintaining a beautiful body. Running for even short distances lowers your cholesterol levels, burns fat really fast, builds your muscles, and also improves your respiratory system. You use over 80 percent of the ability of your lungs to pump in more oxygen in your system. You also reduce the risk of osteoporosis, which becomes a major problem in many women after menopause.
• Walking up the stairs:
If you have a staircase in your house, then you do not really need an exercise schedule to keep you healthy and fit. Simply climbing up the stairs at least eight to ten times a day will give your entire body good exercise without any schedule. Walking up and down the stairs benefits your leg muscles and reduces your fat to a great extent. You can try increasing your speed once you become accustomed to a particular speed. This way you move up from casual to more intense exercise levels. The step exercises are a great way to losing the Muffin tops or Spare tire from your body. A few minutes of this exercise works like magic.
• Biking or cycling
Intense exercises like cycling or biking give you a great work out for legs, heart and lungs, besides melting your fat. To fit these exercise in your personal exercise schedule, all you have to is get a bike and start cycling. If you can manage it, then cycling to your office is a great way to stay in shape. Cycling is a full body-exercise, which helps you reduce your weight, gives an attractive shape to your body, and also gives you a good cardio exercise. In addition to this, if you live on the outskirts of a city or in a town, you can explore new scenic trails and bike paths, which will make cycling more fun. A few kilometers of cycling especially in the morning is excellent for your health and rejuvenates your entire system.
• Brisk walking:
Taking brisk walk in your garden or veranda is very comfortable to include in your busy schedules even if you are a homemaker. You can do this activity anywhere and at anytime. Although a low intensity activity but walking up to 4 miles per hour can burn as much as 300 calories in an hour and you can easily accommodate this in your private exercise schedule.
Apart form this you can also include yoga in your exercise schedule, which is one of the best exercises.

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