5 simple exercises to be healthy and beautiful

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A sedentary lifestyle negatively affects well-being and provokes the development of various diseases. In this video, we will show you five simple exercises that will help you maintain your health and a beautiful figure.

Why sitting a lot is bad

The human body is designed to walk. However, computers and office work force us to sit for 7-9 hours a day. Typical "bonuses" of a sedentary lifestyle are problems with the spine and posture, pain in the shoulders, neck, back, headache.

A sedentary lifestyle inevitably leads to extra pounds. Fat people spend 2.5 hours more sitting than thin people. And according to a study by scientists from the University of Chester, daily standing for 3 hours burns 144 kcal. If you change your lifestyle and spend 3 hours longer than usual on your feet, you can get rid of 3-4 extra pounds in a year.

Lack of physical activity or complete lack of it, including sitting in one place for long periods of time, increases the risk of developing dozens of chronic diseases - from cancer and diabetes to heart problems and non-alcoholic liver diseases. We wrote about this in detail here.

In a word, a sedentary lifestyle is fatal to the body. This infographic explains why sitting increases your risk of death by 40%.

So don't sit still! Watch the video and do the exercises with us.

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