Recommended Exercise
Every so often, the health department of the United States published a series of recommendations for maintaining a healthy lifestyle through exercise. You can access the full report in 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. In his summary, we suggest that being physically active is one of the most important steps we can do to improve our health. Regular physical activity at any age, kept for months and years offers long-term benefits on health. For this we must exercise weekly.
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The main results of the study are:
* Regular physical activity reduces the risk of complications to health problems.
* Some physical activity is better than nothing.
* For many health problems, there are additional benefits as we increase the activity, intensity, frequency and / or duration of exercise.
* To obtain substantial benefits, we must devote a minimum of 150 minutes (2 hours) per week of moderate exercise.
* Both aerobic exercise such as weight training are beneficial.
* Improved health in all age groups, children, adolescents, adults and elders. There are no differences in racial, ethnic or disabled.
* The benefits of physical activity far outweigh the possible negative effects.