Get Active

Take small steps...

but lots of them.  Start slow.  Go for a walk on your lunch hour or after dinner.  Try walking along the sidelines during your child’s sports practice or take a stroll during his or her music or dance class. Measure your walking with a pedometer, or time yourself and add several hundred more steps, another block or more minutes each week.  Work up to at least 30 minutes a day on five or more days of the week.

Tone up with tunes

Motivate yourself with music while you are waking.  Jog or march in place for at least 15 minutes a day while you’re watching television.

Do anything

Being active doesn’t mean you have to pump steel or run a marathon.  Any moderate-pace activity counts.  Try walking, swimming, gardening, dancing, biking, hiking, skipping rope or paddling a canoe.  Add new activities to keep from getting bored.

Source:  Everyday Choices for a Healthier Life
www.everydaychoices.org.