More exercise tips to lose weight the healthy way

July 25, 2009  
Filed under Fitness Tips to Lose Weight

Not everyone likes stretching or riding a bike, so here are additional exercise examples that you can apply when asking yourself how to lose weight the healthy way using fitness.

Are you one of the lucky ones to have a small garden around your house? Then practice gardening. Plant some vegetables or make a small flower garden that not only will thrive, but will add you natural healthy benefits. Of course, you will get more out of a garden of herbs and vegetables, because you can use them in your daily diet. Take two for the price of one!

Use the stairs. You might be living in a block of flats, or your job requires to go up and down with the lift. Why not take the stairs instead? If you have a large multi-floor department store, don’t take the lift, go up and down the stairs. Just think of the many places you encounter stairs every day and start using them. A natural way to exercise by doing what you always do. You don’t even need to take time aside for doing this one!

Don’t use another person to clean your use, take charge of it yourself! By heaving 10 minutes dusting a day, by vacuuming the carpet, by going up and down with the mop, you exercise various muscles in your body the natural way. What better way is there to lose weight the healthy way and having a sparkly clean house at the same time?

From all this, I mostly enjoy swimming. You will burn 400 calories just by smimming up and down the pool for a good 30 minutes. Swimming also allows you to tone your body. It works really each muscle in your body!
A study done in  1993 for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. looked at the calorie-burning effects of swimming and it found that champion swimmers burn approximately 25 percent more calories swimming than champion runners. So swimming seems to be a better calorie burning than running! This is not to say running is not good to your health. On the contrary. If swimming is not your strength and all you do in the water is splash water around yourself and get others angry, and you’re in danger of drowning in shallow water, than go for running. The health benefits int hat case are much higher for you!

So if you’re asking yourself how to lose weight the healthy way with exercises, there is so much to do around you, just pick one and do it. If it doesn’t work for you, pick something else. But don’t just sit on the couch worrying about your excess fat. Do something. Anything is better than nothing, and of course, the more you do, the more benefits you reap in the short and long term.

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  1. Dylan Lopez on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 6:13 pm 

    small gardens are very cute and could be well managed easily. we have 2 small gardens at home.”*,

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