It is recommended that you should participate in physical activities that include endurance, flexibility and strength to keep your body healthy. Here are some easy every day examples to include these activities:

Endurance
Flexibility
Strength
Other Ideas

Endurance: endurance activities help your heart, lungs and circulatory system stay healthy and give you more energy (4-7 days a week)

• walking
• golfing (without a ride-on cart!)
• yard and garden work
• propelling a wheelchair ("wheeling")
• cycling
• skating
• continuous swimming
• tennis
• dancing

Flexibility: activities that can help you to move easily, keeping your muscles relaxed and your joints mobile (4-7 days a week)

• gardening
• mopping the floor
• yard work
• vacuuming
• stretching exercises
• golf
• T'ai Chi
• Bowling
• Yoga
• Curling
• Dance

Strength: activities that help your muscles and bones stay strong, improve your posture and help to prevent diseases like osteoporosis (2-4 days a week)

• heavy yard work, such as cutting and piling wood; shoveling snow
• raking and carrying leaves
• lifting and carrying groceries
• climbing stairs
• exercises like abdominal crunches and push ups
• wearing a backpack carrying school books
• weight/strength training routines

Some other ideas to fit physical activity in:

• get off bus 10 minutes before your intended stop and walk
• fit a 10 minute walk into your lunch break
• if you are a stay at home parent, try fitting in a TV fitness program; dance with your children for 10 minutes; go to the park and actively play with your children
• take the stairs instead of the elevator -
• o stretch breaks at your desk or while riding on the bus
• walk to do your errands (you can count that walking around the mall!)
• make physical activity a family event
• when going out with friends, think of activities where you can include physical activity