Move: walk, sweep, dance the salsa, it doesn’t matter!
We all need to move! While this seems a little too simply stated for most, getting up and moving is one of, if not the absolute best way, to keep your body healthy. Movement keeps our muscles toned, helps those joints, and helps blood circulation. Walking is one of the best exercises, but even cleaning house requires movement and energy, and if you dance around a little to some good music in the process you might get a lot of exercise and have fun cleaning at the same time!
Physical activity has positive effects on the brain and brain functioning. Low impact activities such as walking or swimming are especially good because they increase blood circulation which increases the oxygen and glucose that reach your brain, which ,beneficial to the brain’s proper functioning.
Low impact activities that are not strenuous keep your muscles from taking up extra oxygen and glucose, so you can effectively oxygenate your brain. Movement and exercise increase breathing and heart rate so that more blood flows to the brain, enhancing energy production and waste removal. Studies of senior citizens who walk regularly showed significant improvement in memory skills compared to sedentary elderly people. Walking also improved learning ability, concentration, and abstract reasoning in the elderly.
The important thing is too just start moving more; then, you can create an exercise plan just for yourself that is uniquely suited for you. Different exercise plans fit different people, depending on age, lifestyle, physical problems, current fitness, likes and dislikes, etc.
