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Exercise can greatly reduce your risk of many chronic diseases and improve your overall health. For many people, however, getting more physically active -- or sticking with it -- is difficult. How can you make regular exercise a part of your life?

This guide is designed to help people, step by step, put a successful exercise plan into place. The health benefits will begin almost immediately!

I. Let's Get Started
Step 1: Welcome
Step 2: The Benefits of Exercise
Step 3: Before You Begin
II. Intensity and Type
Step 4: How Much Exercise is Enough?
Step 5: Types of Exercise
Step 6: Why Use Weights?
III. Safety and Comfort
Step 7: Warm Up, Cool Down, and Stretch
Step 8: Stay Safe
IV. Motivation
Step 9: Just Getting Out the Door
Step 10: Overcoming Roadblocks

 

 
Review Date: January 15, 2003

Reviewed By: Jacqueline A. Hart, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Harvard University and Senior Medical Editor, A.D.A.M., Inc.

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