https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSqnIV5Y8wDr. Nadine Kelly is the founder of YOGI MD. She is a yoga teacher, retired doctor, ACE certified health coach, and host of The YOGI MD Podcast. Welcome to 3 for every 30 with YOGI MD. Look for a new video, every Thursday for the next ten weeks. These videos are designed to encourage movement and discourage sedentary behavior for everybody!
Exercise is good for body and brain. There are guidelines for what type and how much exercise we should get. According to the CDC, we need 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity aerobic exercise per week. That translates to roughly 15-30 minutes per day. That time does not have to take place all at once. It can be divided into shorter bursts. In addition to aerobic exercise, we need resistance training twice a week. Resistance training can be body weight exercises, using resistance bands, free weights, or weights on machines. Finally, especially as we age, flexibility and balance training is important to prevent debilitating or fatal falls which are expensive, muscle atrophy, and bone loss.
When it comes to exercise guidelines, remember that you are an individual and you need to take that into account. Every body is different. Factors that affect the types, ways, and the amount of time you exercise include your age, gender, illness, physical fitness level, and pre- and post surgery just to name a few.
So here are several three minute videos to get you moving, to break up sitting for too long. Think 3 minutes of movement for every 30 minutes of sitting. Everybody has three minutes!
“Move it so you can use it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSqnIV5Y8w
