Light exercise and activity that can be done at home
Remember back then when we were so active?, but not today especially when you are too lazy to exercise and move body.
So despite your age, and also the schedule, you must become active by doing something even the light one to make body trained.
Each movement to do that involve muscle, and energy to use can be simply mean as a "physical activity".
For more specific, light exercise just requires less of your stamina, and won't really affect the breathing.
For instance, you can consider walking, sweeping the floor as "light" exercise.
Regardless how light it is, tons of benefits can be expected, so you will never consider it lightly anymore.
Basically by being active is great to reduce diseases even the serious threat.
However just like said before, your activity physically tend to decrease given your age.
For the most simple step, try to walk more as your casual activity. For older people walking has been analyzed for the benefit.
The research suggests that older person with normal condition can do walking as routine and "prolong" their age expectation.
Walking may see trivial because we do it everyday right?. But there's a little "secret" to make this movement give the more.
With the right technique, by watching the posture and keep the health of joints and bones.
Even better, walking can be seen as well as the light cardio, and surely the simplest one.
You can choose to look "busy" at home starting by sweeping the floor, wash the clothes and wash the dishes.
So double benefits to get obviously by finishing the job done at home.
It may not look as heavy exercise but of course it will affect your physique when you count it.
Your activity at cleaning something at home, according to research, is able for helping the calories burning, and the benefits for muscle too.
For those who start to exercising with the help of such activity, will be ideal to improve their fitness.
With the age gets old, you can feel the joints and muscle are not as flexible as before.
For such case stretching would be ideal and you can move more.
According to Harvard Health, exercise like stretching can lead to flexible and strong muscle. Not stop there since you can make the movement of joints to be flexible too.
Beside some light activity for your physique, you can try activity like drawing for your mind since it's best in lowering the stress.
Still under the scientific journal, they managed monitor the cortisol level of a group of healthy people.
You are certainly aware about the cortisol and its connection to stress.
The 45 minutes session of drawing got potential to reduce this cortisol.
This research also shows that no difference between the pro and average people when using the specific method to relieve stress.
So this is fun to gain benefit even from a thing like drawing.
The last tips you can try is avoid sitting that much. After all body only burns less calories when you sit, thus it increases obesity chance.