Energy and Exercise for Life

We all know that exercise is as vital as healthy eating, so here’s a little inspiration to get you going and helping you to achieve a more active lifestyle.

Regular activity doesn’t just make you look good, it decreases risk of illness, boosts energy, uplifts your mood and increases longevity – so what’s not to like? Adults need to be active for at least 30 minutes five days a week. This doesn’t mean going down to the gym or going to every fitness class on the timetable, any activity will do as long as you experience a rise in your breathing, heart rate and body temperature. So brisk walking, DIY, climbing the stairs or gardening will all count if you do them for long and hard enough.  Of course, coming to a FitHaven class or personal fitness session will help that too!

Stepping it up…
If you are already exercising moderately, try to include more vigorous aerobic activity for at least 20 minutes three days a week. This includes anything where your breathing becomes heavier, such as cycling, fitness walking, jogging, swimming or an aerobics class.

Funkier & Fun Fitness…
If conventional sports or the gym simply doesn’t appeal to you then have a think about these alternative workouts:

 Try Dance Fitness or Fitness-Salsa – these are great fun workouts that require your to just simply move your body to fantastic music – you won’t even feel like you are working out but in an hour can burn as much as 400 calories.
 Try Legs, Bums & Tums classes – these are not only fat burning they also target tone the problematic areas that most women face – the thighs, buttocks and abdominals. Also low impact and fun, this class makes it a safer alternative to jogging or running.
 Get outside and in the great outdoors for some Fitness-Walking – this session will invigorate your senses, burn fat and tone muscles and strengthen your bones too. It is great for those of you who lack co-ordination and requires very little equipment other than a good pair of running or walking trainers.
 Bounce & Burn the Fitness Ball Way! Sounds interesting – yes well you can raise your heat rate, burn fat as well as strengthen and tone the core abdominals, back, waistline and improve posture all on the Fitness-Ball.
 FitHaven runs a whole range of exercise and fitness classes that will help you focus on more fun, safe cardio exercise – visit www.fithaven.co.uk/timetable for the full timetable listings.

Fitness-Walking
Wednesday mornings - 9.30 - 10.30am - Various locations

Fitness-Balls
Monday evening 7.20 - 8.20pm Berkeley Street Methodist Church Hall, Eynesbury

Dance Fitness
Wednesday evening 7 - 8pm Stageworks, Buckden

Fitness-Salsa
Thursday evening 7.10 - 8pm Buckden Millennium Community Centre

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