minutes per week of moderate exercise or 75 minutes per week of vigorous exercise. Thirty minutes a day, five times a week is an easy goal to remember. You will also experience benefits even if you divide your time into two or three segments of 10–15 minutes per day. How much do you exercise? Have you fallen into the trap that you don’t have the time, money, or equipment to get in a good workout? Over the next 30 days, experiment with identifying the many ways you can exercise more by just changing your habits—and remember to track! Second, you can’t outrun poor nutrition. Ever wonder why exercising more doesn’t produce the results you desire? Are you frustrated you’re not losing the weight or reaching the body fat goal you set for yourself? Do you want your clothes to fit better? Shift your focus to what you’re putting into your body and track it. You’ll quickly see where you can improve. It doesn’t matter how much you exercise; you cannot offset the impact poor nutrition has on your body. Over a lifetime, the result of poor nutrition can be obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other issues. Want to know where to start? Cut out all sugary soft drinks and energy drinks and replace them with SplasH 2 O® or Sustain® Sport .
During my Mayo visit, I met with a cardiologist who reviewed my blood work and stress test results. She asked probing questions about my nutrition and exercise habits. From her, I learned two valuable lessons. First, when it comes to exercising consistently there are no excuses—only choices. We all have the time and the resources. I tried to tell this doctor how difficult it is to exercise when traveling on business. She politely and firmly reminded me that if my hotel room has a 4x4 floor space then I can do burpees and pushups. If the hotel has a stairwell, I can climb steps in the early morning. If I have a chair, I can do tricep pushups or inclined pushups. Her point? Stop with the excuses already. Make it a priority and do it. Being physically active is important to preventing heart disease and stroke, two of the nation’s leading causes of death! To improve overall cardiovascular health, the American Heart Association recommends at least 150
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