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Now that you are considering exercising, here are 10 tips to not abandon the idea:

- Trust yourself and keep in mind that each small step adds up to big results over time.
- Aim to achieve goals that are possible, not ideal. For example, you can start ejercitándote 5 to 10 minutes several times a week and then keep adding as you go activities specifying that purpose.
- You can train at all times, moving your feet while waiting for the microwave heating food finished, replacing the elevator downstairs, during breaks in the office, etc..
- If you can, use a pedometer during the day to confirm the number of steps you take and Aim to increase them a little more each day. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you overweight and think you can not exercise? Do you think you have limitations to put your body in motion? Chances are that those are just excuses. Exercise is healthy for all people. Even you, with those extra pounds or kilos more, will help you lose weight, reduce the risk of some diseases, reduce stress and improve your quality of life in general. Find out how in this article.

Cheer up! Find comfortable clothes, choose what and where and get moving. Alternatives for exercise can be water activities such as swimming, stationary bike and yoga or stretching exercises, not to mention everyday tasks like climbing stairs, house cleaning, taking care of the garden, washing the car and all those which involve putting the body moving. Read the rest of this entry »

Do all your friends are already mothers, and you do not manage to get pregnant? If the doctor has not found any problem, maybe the answer is in your gym.

If you’re at a healthy weight and want to have a baby, doing moderate exercise (like brisk walking and gardening do) helps, because it increases your chances of getting pregnant. But you should avoid very strenuous exercise or high intensity, which require great physical exertion (running, cycling or swimming at high speed, for example) because they may decrease your chances of pregnancy. The exception would be in the overweight women whose fertility is not affected by the type of exercise you do. Those are the results of a study conducted by American and Danish researchers, thousands of Danish women.

The study was conducted through the Internet, they sent questionnaires to 3.628 women aged 18 to 40 years. All had to be in stable relationships with their partners, and trying to get pregnant, but they could be receiving fertility treatments. The researchers acquired information on weight, height, medical records and women’s reproductive and lifestyle, behavior, and the hours they spent a week working out, plus the type of exercise. Then they sent by email follow-up questionnaires every two months for 12 months or until the woman became pregnant. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have a chronic health problem and you think that stops you from exercising, keep reading because this article may interest you. Here we tell you what kind of physical activities will help not only prevent but also to improve the symptoms of diseases such as those affecting the heart, diabetes, hypertension and cancer, among others.

You might have read or heard recommendations about the benefits of exercise and all the good it can bring to your health, but still costs you create a routine and doing it, among many obligations and issues that you must attend every day. Quiet, this is a very common situation, and especially if you suffer from any chronic illness that put you off. Some people stop exercising because they are no longer physically able to do it, and abandon the effort. Read the rest of this entry »

Perhaps at first glance not so easy to tell someone whom you exercise it does not, but this does not go unnoticed at the cellular level, where it is notable that physical exercise is able to rejuvenate … 10 years!, According to study released recently by the journal Archives of Internal Medicine (Archives of Internal Medicine).

Indeed, a group of scientists from King’s College London (England), led by Dr. Tim Spector, was given the task of analyzing the cellular age of more than 2,400 pairs of twins (identical genetic loads), which is able to observe the status of a portion of their chromosomes (units that bring together genes with all the information that determines our physical characteristics), and then compared this data with each individual physical activity performed in his spare time.

More precisely, what doctors did was measure the length of telomeres, ie fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA, which encodes the characteristics of every human being) at the ends of the arms of the chromosomes that do not have information itself, but whose function is to protect our genes that shorten each time a cell divides to renew tissues. Read the rest of this entry »

Aging is a natural process that affects all body structures and functions, and is characterized by slow decline in the ability to perform all kinds of activities. None of us can escape it, but we can make over the years is very nice.

First, it should be noted that experts in Geriatrics and Physical Therapy agree that there are three mechanisms that explain the aging process, they can occur in combination:

Cell and tissue destruction due to toxic agents, oxygen deprivation, beatings, accidents, radiation (such as sunlight), infections or diseases in general. Read the rest of this entry »

Running, swimming, dancing or walking with pets are not only fun, but can help prevent age-related diseases and even slow the onslaught of time. Tested!, So moving to live better.

It is not the desired “fountain of youth” that many have tried to find, but is close. The irony is that, despite being available to everyone and that long there is plenty of medical evidence that supports its benefits, we tend to underestimate what you can do to improve our quality life, sense of humor and strength, and simply ignore. Read the rest of this entry »