10 easy ways to boost your fitness levels
Saravanan "Sharu" Hariram
August 4, 2016 - 5:32 pm
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Summary
Too busy to hit the gym? Don’t fret! Here are some nifty ways to get fit without making drastic changes to your daily routine. Stretch in the morning A few minutes of stretching early morning improves posture, reduces aches and pains, increases blood circulation, and keeps you active and energised throughout the day. Walk your […]
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Too busy to hit the gym? Don’t fret! Here are some nifty ways to get fit without making drastic changes to your daily routine.
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Stretch in the morning
A few minutes of stretching early morning improves posture, reduces aches and pains, increases blood circulation, and keeps you active and energised throughout the day.
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Walk your dog
Taking your dog for a walk gives you more than eight hours of exercise a week, according to a study by the UK-based pet care company Bob Martin.
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Eat healthy
Giving up processed foods and including more fruits, vegetables, eggs, lean meat, dairy products, whole grains in your diet cuts down the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, blood pressure and cancer.
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Take the stairs
The number of calories burnt while climbing stairs is only exceeded by strenuous activity like sprinting and lugging heavy weights.
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Deskercise
Need to send a message to a colleague? Walk over to him/her instead of using the intercom. Need to read a report? Do it standing up. Try not to chain yourself to the desk for all time you spend in the office. And find time to do some exercises or yoga poses at your desk. Avoid long hours of sitting, as sitting is the new smoking!
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Fidgeting is good
Your high school teacher may have detested the habit, but fidgeting is good for you from a health perspective. Studies have found that people who fidget at their desks reduce damage to their health caused by sitting for prolonged periods of time.
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Run errands
Need to go to the bank or the local market? Leave the car behind. Make your steps count while doing your errands—it will help you save on fuel costs as well as raise your fitness levels.
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Meet a friend over a game
Instead of meeting a friend at a coffee shop, schedule a meeting on the golf course or the local tennis club. It will make the encounter fun while allowing you to pack in some much-needed physical activity.
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Play with children
Playing with your kids not only allows you to spend quality time with them but also burns calories. 
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Sleep well
Getting a good night’s sleep helps you deal better with stress, improves memory, stimulates creativity, helps maintain a healthy weight and keeps depression at bay.
So get started and re-resolve to lose your weight. Kick things off by taking these re-resolutions.
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I want diet plan for lose 24 kg body weight in 4 month how much take break fast lunch dinner cup of tea cal.per day
Along with simple work out having knee and lower back problems .
My stomach fat how to reduce send the tips.
This is my first day in healthify. Pls guide me
Is this good to take rooti, vegtables and a piece of goat meat with curd in dinner.
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Can you suggest diet plan for acidity and respiratory problems and work out to done
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I want diet plan for 1000 to 1200 cal.per day
Along with simple work out having knee and lower back problems .
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Thanks for giving the instructions
I’m subhashini just jain health ify
Thanks for answering my questions but still I want whether I am taking proper diet daily.Iam doing yoga in morning
My breast is so fat
My chest is so small and my all body is fat
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Hi, I am following healthify for the last one year, and I am getting very good result . I am really very happy , thanks everybody for helping me.
They say eat what your elders ate and now eating rice is to be avoided,but down south we enjoy our food with rice and accompaniments.its ok to follow diet but i am not able to leave it alltogether the joy of eating rice,please help.
Thanks for your giving information about diet plan please suggest some more information
Hi Kumar, We are so grateful for your kind words. Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. Keep following our blogs.