Just 20 minutes aerobic exercise a day is quite sufficient to enable
most people to maintain good health
Make small adjustments to your lifestyle. Leave the car at home. Walk or cycle to
work. Get off the bus a few stops earlier. Replace the electric lawn mower with a
manual. Use the stairs instead of the lift. It’s not hard to find convenient ways of
being more active.
Spend a few moments daily bending and stretching to loosen the muscles and
keep them supple. Buy an exercise video or audio tape, for example, of simple
yoga exercises which are extremely beneficial and are not that time-consuming.
Once you’ve started, don’t stop. It’s easier to get out of shape than into it. It only
takes a couple of weeks of inactivity to fall back to where you started.
24 GET IN SHAPE