Best Thing You Can Do to Maintain Your Health

What is the most important thing you can do for your health?  The answer is simple:  20 to 30 minutes of physical activity per day.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInS6HIGo

Many people contend that they do not have the time for exercise.  l contend that they do not make the time.  One need only maintain an diary for one or two weeks, noting activities during hourly intervals, to see how much discretionary time is involved in things such as watching TV.

I did this and found that it was easy to free up 30 minutes a day for exercise at home - no expensive gym memberships - no expensive equipment.  I also found that I could "double task" in that I could do some exercises while watching TV or while working at the computer.

It's a fairly simple matter to adopt a regular exercise regime: make it a habit.  If you commit yourself to 20 or 30 minutes a day for exercise for a period of three weeks, chances are that it will become a habit.

The results will pay off in better health outcomes and a greater enjoyment of life. Where in life is there a better pay-off in terms of risk/reward?

In recent years, I've made it a practice to take a long-distance walk or bicycle trip.  This June it will be a bicycle trip from Quebec City to Kingston, Ontario via Sherbrooke, Lake Champlain and Montreal.  I will post the URL for the trip blog. We'll use the same site as we did for a cycling trip last year from Washington DC to Kingston, Ontario.

The results of regular exercise over the past winter were present in spades when I hopped aboard the bike for some spring training runs of 20 to 30 miles this year. What a difference from last spring: no numbness in the hands, reserves of power for hills that once killed me, and more endurance when boring into headwinds.