The Importance Of Physical Activity For Adults And How to Motivate Yourself To Get It

Getting enough exercise is an incredibly important thing for people of all ages. From the youngest of toddlers to adults in their elderly years, exercise is a crucial component of leading as healthy life. Already more people are overweight and obese, with a third of the population classified as medical obese and another full third as overweight.

And much of this can be directly attributed to the fact that people are simply not getting up and moving anymore. With only around five percent of the general adult population getting thirty minutes of exercise each and every day and with less than half getting the recommended weekly exercise, it should really come as no surprise that obesity rates – and all of the health problems, some of them life threatening ones, that come with them – have been consistently on the rise.

Much of it has to do with our lifestyle. We go to work, we sit at work, and then we come home, too exhausted to do much of anything but eat, put our children to be