Try These Basic Exercises to Stay Fit at Home

To stay healthy regular exercise is the very important part. Exercise can help you to maintain a moderate weight, can prevent or delay diabetes, heart diseases etc. People, who exercise regularly live longer, feel lighter and better. The key is to find out the right exercise for yourself. It’s not important to gym or try out heavy exercises to keep yourself fit but few simple exercise can help you stay healthy.

Exercises, apart from providing physical fitness, also help you to maintain your mental health. Try out the following exercise at home itself to stay healthy.

Walking

walking-exercise

Find out the nice place to walk and take the advantage of the fresh air, greenery, sunshine. This will give you mental peace as well. If not plain walking, try out stair climbing. Climb the stairs at the brisk pace and get back down at your normal speed.

They are a very good warm-up exercises to start with and if done with higher intensity, they provide good cardio benefits.

Step Exercise

Just stand in front of the bottom step of a stair and step up with one foot and then the other, then step down with one foot and then the other. This will provide you very good cardio benefit and tone your legs as well.

Leg Raises

These are done to tone your abdominal muscle. Just lie flat on your back and raise your legs at 90 degree and hold for 10-15 seconds.

Crunches

Lie on your back with knees bent at 45 degree and feet flat on the flour. Arms crossed across your chest and move your upper body tucking your chin into your chest. While doing this if you feel contraction in abdominal muscle know that you are doing it right. Crunches are very good exercise for midsection.

Squats

Stand with your feet and shoulder width apart and squat down until thighs are parallel to the ground and then stand up slowly again. Remember one thing while performing this exercise to keep your back straight and head up. This exercise is to tone your legs, butts.

Dancing

Dancing can be very good aerobic exercise. The very good thing about dancing is that you can have a very good workout and at the same time its fun too and enjoyable.

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