Tips for Staying Fit
Any type of regular, physical activity can improve students’ fitness and their health. The most important thing is that students keep moving. Students should examine their course load and determine exactly how and when they will make time for exercise. Exercise should be a regular part of their day, like studying, going shopping, and sleeping. It can be in gym class, joining a sports team, or working out on your own. If you are a student keep the following tips in mind:
Being Active Every Day
Students should walk more. Just walking alone can help students stay in shape, feel more energetic, and get healthy. Walking is easy to fit into their basic daily activities too, making it one of the easiest solutions for staying in shape. The next easiest way to fit in more walking is to make sure that you’re always taking the stairs. Skip the elevator and escalator when you can. The students can do more chores. Lots of household chores actually involve a lot of exercise and it can be a great way for you to fit activity and exercise into your day. They can do some of these: mowing grass using a push-mower, making the bed, doing the laundry, and scrubbing the bathtub.
The students have to fit exercise into their schedule. Students have to exercise although they might not have the time. However, all students need to do to start burning calories is maintain a higher heart rate for 10 minutes at a time. This means that they can exercise for that extra ten minutes that they have between coming home and waiting for the dinner, or between watching TV and going to bed.
Eating Right
Students have to change their lifestyle. Diets can help them shed a few emergency pounds in a pinch, but they can the same results with minimal exercise if they eat healthy, properly proportioned meals. This will keep them energetic. They must cut out unhealthy fats. Students can find saturated and trans “solid” fats in foods like butter, cheese, coconut oil, vegetable shortening, red meats, chicken skin, and commercially baked products (cookies, pizza, donuts, cakes, etc. Students must add in healthy fats. Healthy fats are vital for keeping their body healthy and maintaining their most important muscle: their heart. They can find healthy fats in nuts, olive oil, avocados, and fatty fish like salmon and anchovies. The students should eat properly portioned, balanced meals. Generally, about ⅓ of their plate should be fruits and vegetables (leaning more heavily to the side of the vegetables, since fruit contains a lot of sugar) and ⅓ of their plate should be grains. The final third should be a mix of protein and low-fat dairy (cottage cheese, eggs, non-fat milk, etc)
