2 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay Fit and Healthy for Life

Introduction

To stay fit and healthy for life, you need only do two simple things: Choose an exercise that gives you both cardiovascular and partial anaerobic benefits. Also, you need to choose an exercise that gives you the rest of the anaerobic exercise that your body needs to be complete.

Kill two birds with one stone

When you think about running or biking or dancing or climbing, you think of them as aerobic exercises only. However, that is not actually the case. They are, in truth, both aerobic and anaerobic exercises. They take care of both your cardiovascular system and the muscles. They take care of your cardiovascular system by strengthening both your heart and your lungs. Not only that, they improve your oxygen capacity and your blood flow. On the other side, they also strength your muscles, namely, the muscles in your legs and thighs. Have you ever looked at a runner's, biker's, dancer's, or climber's legs? Are they not muscular? Sure, they are. So, yes, running, biking, dancing and climbing are also an anaerobic exercise as well. That being the case, we are able to kill two birds with one stone. Ouch! We have strengthened both our cardiovascular system, and we have also strengthened the muscles of our lower body. However, that is not good enough. We have not strengthened the muscles of our upper body, namely, the shoulders, arms, abs, and back. What can we do to strengthen them?

Do push ups

We can do push ups. Push ups takes care of our entire upper body--the back, the shoulders, the chest, the abs, and the arms. I have been doing push ups for more than a couple of years nearly every single day. I had gone from doing, say, 20 to 25 push ups a day a few years ago to doing over 100 push ups a day, not counting the reps I do after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Mind you, my arms, shoulders, biceps, and forearms are noticeably much bigger than before. Since I like the lean and mean, natural look, I decided to do no more than 100 a day. I felt that I was getting much larger than I wanted to be. But back to my point: To strengthen your upper body, all you have to do are push ups. And mind you, you can do push ups just about any time or at any place you want to. One thing more: You always take your equipment with you--your body!

Summary

In summary, you need only do two things to stay fit and healthy for life. You need to find an exercise that provide you with both cardiovascular and partial anaerobic benefits. And second, you need to find a anaerobic exercise--push ups are my choice, of course--that will help you strengthen your upper body.