Exercising For Your Health

Regular exercise is good for your health. A moderate amount of activity performed three to five days per week can:
- Improve your heart health.
- Improve your heart disease risk factors.
- Improve your strength and feeling of well-being.

When exercising for your health, there are three different steps that need to be taken. These steps include:
- The warm-up: This part helps you move from rest to activity and it slowly increases breathing, heart rate and body temperature. It also helps to improve flexibility and reduce muscle soreness. For the best effects on your muscles, your warm-up should last about five minutes.

- Conditioning: This part provides you with the benefits of exercise. Four important points in this phase are; frequency, intensity, duration and type.

- The cool-down: This last part allows your body to recover from the conditioning phase. Heart rate and blood pressure will return to near resting values. During the cool-down, you should slowly decrease the intensity of your activity and perform the stretching and range of motion exercises from the warm-up phase.

Include all three parts in your exercise session to avoid injury and problems during exercise.

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