Tag: motivation
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How to increase your activity. Part 10 of Being Active While Living an Active Life
Physical activity guidelines recommend getting at least 150 minutes per week of activity. Meeting these guidelines is associated with improved health and lower risk for disease, but keep in mind that this is the minimal recommendation. If you look more closely at the World Health Organization’s recommendations they go on to state: For additional health…
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Physical Activity: A Brief History
“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labours in which each is accustomed become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused and left idle they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.” Hippocrates Circa 450 BC For more than…