07/25/2022
Do I have to exercise?
The simple answer is YES!
Don't throw your hand up in the air and think,
” how can I exercise when I'm on my healing journey?”
Three types of exercise are recommended for everyone, aerobic exercise (e.g., walking) strength training (resistance bands and lifting weights) and stretching.
The key to a consistent exercise routine is making it playful. The mantra therefor: do what you enjoy, make it fun, and do it regularly.
Exercise helps us stay healthy, lose weight, look younger, feel better, improves immune function, antioxidant activity, and promotes DNA repair. Also mitigates each of the underlying mechanism that cause chronic diseases.
Simply walking the equivalent of 3 to 5 hours per week, which is 25 to 45 minutes per day, greatly reduced the risk of death from breast cancer.
Exercise lengthens telomeres, thereby also contributing to slowing aging. While chronic emotional stress can shorten telomeres, exercise can prevent this from happening.
Exercise reduces your risk of developing breast cancer and decreases your mortality rate if you have breast cancer.
We also become happier, when we exercise. It not only helps prevent depression and chronic disease, but can also treat it. Strength training has the same effects.
Make this time special. Make a pact with yourself and commit to moving your body every day.
MAX—out your life!
M=motivation
A=accountability
X=exercise
