Take Five: Simple Steps for Better Health
By: Andrea Metcalf Be Healthy and Be Moved www.andreametcalf.com
| 1. For your heart, try walking - Just put one foot in front of the other and soon you’ll be walking out the door. It's one of the easiest things to start because it requires no equipment and you already know how to do it. Walking has many health benefits including helping to maintain and lose body weight. | |
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2. For your shoulder joint, try empty can raises. Start with hands out in front of the body and turn the thumbs down and inward like emptying a can; hold this position and lower and raise the arms from thighs to chest height. The shoulder joint can be easily injured and this exercise helps strengthen the supraspinatus to keep shoulders strong, stable and safe. |
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3. For your lower body it’s a squat. A squat uses the lower body strength to balance and maintain weight distribution equally.
HOW ABOUT THIS: Try squatting with you back against a wall and hold for 15 to 60 seconds. That's a great way to get ready for bathing suit season or just tone your legs and butt. They are the base movement in any athletic event and you can do them in the elevator too. |
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4. For weight loss, try strength training at least twice a week. Lifting weights or pushing around your own body weight is a great strategy for weight loss and staying fit. Simple movements like pressing and pulling against resistance are key. |
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5. For the waistline, it's bicycle abdominals over crunches. Everyone wants a trim waistline and flat abdominals, but even performing 100 crunches a day will not beat the workout of 100 bicycle ab moves. Start on the floor with hands behind your head and alternate knee to elbow while the other leg extends slowly. Keep your lower back near to the floor and stable. Breathe with each movement. |
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