Time is precious, everyone has limited time for what they like to do. For some people, health is a priority, they follow different diets or take part in different activities in order to stay healthy: But, for the majority , exercise is often ignored until they fall sick or have other issues that forces them to take action. This majority also doesn’t prefer to spend endless hours in gym, expect quick results and follow online Health Gurus and Instagram fitness models without doing due diligence. The first mantra that everyone knows when it comes to being healthy is eat less, workout more.This standard, one size fits all approach has lot of disadvantages. Instead the more effective way would be to have customized, clear cut goals for every individual. Like our personalities we need to approach our health in a more personalized way.

So, how can you effectively utilize your time and reap extra benefits than your counterparts, who spend endless hours for their health?

Step 1: Movements

Movement is a term that is so unnoticed in the fitness industry. The existence of human beings is connected to movements of joints and muscles. Active utilization of these muscles and joints will keep you away from aging and age-related diseases. Millions of years ago our ancestors used movement for food as an activity to keep them healthy. In the past 50 to 60 years humans have created wonderful technologies to make human life easier. These technologies have also led human to move less, which has led to the obesity epidemic and a whole lot of other diseases.

How we can effectively utilize our day to day movements and easily add some small activities to increase your state of wellbeing.

Try to reflect on your daily routine, how do you move from one place to the other ? How do you sit? Like I mentioned before, technology has made everything convenient for humans. But this has also made us more humans lethargic. So why not use technology in this healthy pursuit? We need to start using technology more wisely than ever to utilize more on joints and muscle movements to keep them healthy and long.

Movement #1 : Start walking for short distances instead of using a vehicle. If you cant shop nearby only then use a vehicle.

Movement #2 : Use stairs instead of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways. Climbing the stairs is a wonderful exercise for your cardiovascular health, lungs capacity, joint health, and weight loss.

Movement #3 : Walking with small weights, it can be grocery bags or moving something from one place to another or carrying the luggage on your hand instead of using a trolly, etc.

Movement #4 : Playing with your children can be more fun than you think

Movements #5 : joint exercises for healthier joints, give them occasional light stresses on the joints to function better in daily movements.

Movement #6 : Go out and play a game or two.This has dual benefits- you have a good time and it helps in stress reduction

Movement #7 : Physical work that can be gardening, farming for better health and good food.

Movement #8 : Exercise is a part of the movement even though, which in itself for a larger topic for discussion in the next blog.

This can be a daunting task for you to include all these movements in your lifestyle at once. Try including some of these movements in your daily activities slowly and embrace them for the to improve your health in small steps every day.