If you cannot find ways to fit exercise into your busy daily schedule, don’t worry! Exercise doesn’t always have to be laborious. Research shows that 31 amounts of exercise—even just 15 minutes a day—helps ease depression, enhance self-image, relieve stress, and much more. That’s right. Doing exercise makes you happy, and you don’t have to be a fitness 32 to do it. What you need to do is to make “start slow and have fun” a motto to 33 . Then you’ll be well on your way to using physical activity as a tool to make you feel better every day.
The “no pain, no gain” view of exercise is now considered old-fashioned. In fact, 34 health studies prove that exercise doesn’t have to hurt to be effective. You might 35 that if working out doesn’t give you pain, it isn’t working. According to fitness trainers, physically 36 exercises may make you breathe heavily and your muscles may ache temporarily, but exercise should not be painful. In fact, if it is, it may 37 an injury or muscle strain. Many great forms of exercise—like walking, swimming, or gentle stretching—get results without the 38 or discomfort some people associate with exercise.
For the sake of your health, it is time to make regular exercise a part of your life. Keep in mind that even short periods of low-impact exercise serve as a powerful 39 to improve your health. So, no matter how busy you are, try to 40 for exercise every day, like a 15-minute walk with your dog. Your body will thank you in many ways.
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