79Doctor Exercise –Doctor Exercise –
The Body’s Vital EnergizerThe Body’s Vital Energizer
The Importance of Exercise
You have roughly 640 muscles and all these muscles
must be used! If you do not use them, you lose them! If
they are not used, they then start to lose their tone,
strength and flexibility! Exercise need not be violent and
there are hundreds of ways to exercise the human body.
The best and greatest of all exercise is brisk walking: no
special equipment is required except good walking shoes.
You can walk vigorously, swinging your arms, for a good
workout or just take a stroll. When you walk and breathe
in deeply as you stride along you are building Vital Force
and stimulating the eliminating and cleansing processes.
After walking, swimming is the second-greatest exercise.
Any sport that brings into play the muscles of the body
can be part of your daily healthy lifestyle. Tennis and
even gardening are considered wonderful exercise. You
should also have a 20 to 30 minute daily exercise program
of stretching, aerobics, etc. and breathing exercises.
The best exercise for the lower abdomen and lower back
muscles is to lie on your back and raise both your legs up
slowly to a vertical position and hold for a few seconds.
Next, slowly lower them until your heels almost touch the
floor, then slowly raise back up to a vertical position again.
Important: do this exercise slowly and increase the
repetitions daily until you can do 30. The best exercise for
the internal and external stomach muscles is the half sit-up
crunch. Lie flat on your back with knees bent up and your
hands clasped behind your head, now come up and bring
elbows towards bent knees and hold for one minute. Slowly
lower your back to the floor. Repeat this exercise daily until
you are able to do 20 with ease.
It's never too late to begin getting into shape, but it
does take daily perseverance. – Thomas K. Cureton