Top 10 Benefits of Exercise in Everyday Activities

1. Driving -- Practicing Seated Posture, Relaxed Shoulders, Low Abdominal Support

Sit with your back tall (adjust your rearview mirror a bit higher so if you're not in a tall seated position you'll know right away!) Allow the hands to rest on the wheel, and let the shoulder tension drop. Practice pulling the abdominals towards the back of your seat while maintaining your tall posture position. This is how you should be sitting all of the time in any chair!

2. Driving -- Spine Rotation -- checking for cars -- turn and look

Our backs should be mobile and flexible to twist naturally and easily from the bottom to the top. Practice turning to look both ways for cars (right & left). You can turn from the top (head) to the bottom (navel). Or bottom to the top. Keep both hands on the steering wheel, and maintain tall posture. If you are turning to the right - the muscles close to the spine on the left actively push forward to twist each vertebrae, while the right side of the abs pull back, up, and in so both the front and back of the torso is actively engaged to rotate the body.

3. Trimming Bushes -- with manual hedge clippers -- Chest Muscles

By using the whole arm, (focus on squeezing the clippers to cut from where the arms meet the body) you'll get a fantastic chest workout while you're trimming the yard.

4. Getting up and down off a chair or toilet -- Squat, Glutes, Quads, and Hamstrings

We don't realize how many times a day we sit down and stand back up! Every time is an opportunity to strengthen the legs! By focusing on lowering down to sit with control the knees are bending and it's the hamstrings that control the movement. Think about actively pulling your sitz bones towards your heels to control the rate of descent. To return to a stand and keep the strain off your knees, it's the Glutes that need to engage to lift the body up from underneath the hips. The quads will work to straighten the knees, but don't let this be the first action to rise. Fire Glutes first, then quads to return to a standing position.

5. Waiting to check out at the grocery store -- Standing Posture, and/or 1-leg Balancing

What better place to work on balance and posture than when you're waiting in line to check out at the store? Practice standing legs together, even weight on both feet, knees unlocked, abs lifted, shoulders relaxed, head tall. AND practice balancing on one leg with the same tall posture and support.

6. Gardening / Weeding -- Abs/Back & Legs, Hands, bending over and standing up, squatting or kneeling Arms & Shoulders -- picking & pulling

We all have a dominant and weaker side. Focus on equal time for both sides of the body. Alternate pulling weeds with one arm and the other. Pay attention to which leg you squat or kneel on, and be sure that you are also alternating lowering and rising with the legs for a well-balanced gardening workout! Pull your abs up and in, then pull the weed!

7. Vacuuming -- Chest & Back -- Pushing & Pulling, using the arm to move the machine. 

We typically will rely on our dominate side to complete chores in a timely manner. Count the number of strokes across the floor you push and pull the vacuum with one arm, and then alternate sides. If you just bend and straighten the arm to move the vacuum (keeping your shoulders square to your task) the chest and triceps are doing the push forward, and the back and biceps are doing the pull back. Add a twist by allowing the torso to rotate when you push forward, and square the shoulders off when you pull back for more work with the abdominals and obliques. Also, pay attention to the leg that is forward. Switch legs when you switch arms. (Have the opposite leg in front to the arm that is working to counter-balance your movement.)

8. Sitting Up & Rolling Over in Bed -- Abdominals / Sit-ups

Any time you get up from a lying down position, or lay down from a seated position, it's an opportunity to strengthen your abdominal muscles. Strive to roll up and down evenly and sequentially (one segment of your back at a time.) If you rest on one elbow to push up to a sit you're not using your abs and are creating a muscle imbalance (chances are you always push up off the same elbow!) Use your exhale to assist through the challenging moments of the movement.

9. Mad, Passionate, Lovemaking! A superior whole-body exercise

This is cardio training when vigorously engaged. Core training with good thrusting action of hips & pelvis. An upper body workout if you're on top! There are lots of interesting possibilities and positions to improve flexibility! Plus, enjoy pelvic floor strengthening to improve posture, core strength, and bladder control. What better excuse for a great workout than sharing time with your sweetie!

10. Everything we do, every moment of every day gives us the opportunity to use our muscles and improve strength, flexibility, mobility, and body control.

Whether we are actively moving, seated, or standing still -- awareness of what we're doing and how we are using our bodies is important. It is the active use of our muscles to fight against the effects of gravity that provide the support we need to stay strong, fit, and flexible and enjoy a great quality of life!

General Health Tips For Every One

1. Wakeup Early: If you wakeup early in the early morning, you can breathe a fresh air, which will helps to gain more life span, because there will be no pollution in the morning air and pure oxygen available.

2. Exercise Regularly: Regular exercise will helps to keep your body fit.

3. Take Care Of Your Teeth: Brush regularly will help to keep your teeth germs free. Even dentists also recommends brush twice a daily helps to kill complete germs in your mouth.

4. Regular Bath: if you bath regularly, your body will be clean, virus free and you never get any skin diseases.

5. Don't Skip Your Breakfast: Because your body needs some energy to do any work to start, otherwise you will get tired as soon as your energey levels go down due to not taken a breakfast. If you take breakfast, your body will generate new energy to perform any work without loosing existing energy. This will helps to get rid of tiredness.

6. Drink Lots Of Water: Drink as many water as possible because water is good content to clean your body system completely.

7. Follow A Healthy, Balanced Diet: Always take healthy food in time during the day and don't over eat even you can eat multiple times during a day.

8. Eat Different Types Of Foods: By eating a different types of food helps to gain different vitamins from various resources. You can't get body needed vitamins all at one thing, so you should consume as many food varieties as possible, which will have different vitamins which are needed for your body.

9. Say No To Stress: While you work, you should enjoy your work then only you can avoid stress at work. If you are not interested to do any work, then you won't complete that job with satisfaction and in time. So you have to work long hours without interest which will leads to stress, if you enjoy your work you never feel any stress even you work for long hours.

10. Keep Your Brain Active: If you don't have any work try to solve some puzzles or read your favorite books to keep your brain active or try to innovate new or old things in different way helps to keep your brain active.

11. Sleep Well: Before going to bed wash your face or take bath, so you feel fresh! also don't wear tight clothes which are not comfortable while sleep, so wear comfortable clothes to sleep well. Please make sure that your bed sheets are chane regularly for good sleep.

12. Quit Smoking: Never smoke, if you are a smoker! when you talk with your friends or relatives or dear ones who don't smoke they feel unformfable to talk with you, coz bad smell from your mouth. Also smoking is dangerous to your health, so quit smoking.