How to get fit!

There are some really common misconceptions around exercise. So I thought I would say a few words about it. 🏃Why should I exercise? For your health and physical strength. For keeping your muscles and bones strong. 🏋️Exercise is not about: Getting abs or big "guns" and pushing yourself so hard, doing an exercise you hate, to look like an emaciated lollipop. 🏇Who needs to exercise? Everyone! It doesn't matter if you are skinny, carrying extra weight, short, tall or whatever. Everyone needs to exercise for their health. At least 30 minutes a day, so you're puffing. 🏊Apart from losing weight, why else would I need to exercise? 🏋️Weight bearing exercise (like lifting weights, walking, doing push ups, swinging on monkey bars, using resistance bands) helps keep your bones stronger and may reduce your risk for bone disease. ⛳Exercise helps to reduce stress, depression and anxiety and makes you feel happy, by releasing endorphins. 🏋️Weight bearing exercise helps to keep your muscles strong which is really important, especially as we age. 🏃Regular exercise can help increase your energy levels, even in people who chronically ill or have chronic fatigue. 🏊Regular exercise can help prevent you getting chronic disease by lowering blood pressure, improving insulin sensitivity, increasing blood flow, decreasing the amount of fat in your blood and reducing fat around your belly. 🏇Regular exercise can improve your brain function! And reduce stress and inflammation in your body. 🏊Regular exercise can help you sleep better and relax more. It can help reduce chronic pain and can improve your libido! 🏄So what kind of exercise should I do? Anything! Just make sure it's fun, something you enjoy, you do it regularly and it's hard enough to make you puff! Be wary of exercise products on the market that are being sold as easy ways to exercise, like those vibration machines. Most of them are a total scam. If you are not moving muscle and bone, if you are not getting your heart rate up or puffing, you won't be exercising. Save your money and go for a walk instead! For me being fit is about: Being able to run to the train, when its on the platform and I'm not! Being able to run around with the kids on the playground and be able to keep up with them (I can't, I always get tagged first!) Being able to sneeze, cough, jump on the tramp and not pee my pants (giving birth to 3 kids can have that effect!) Being able to lift a cast iron oven dish, full of food, out of the oven and not drop it. To be able to do this when I'm 75. To climb stairs and not get puffed To be able to lift my own weight.