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Body weight exercises are exercises that use your body to build strength and gain muscle. They are the perfect type of workout. They are free and don't require any equipment. You can do them anyplace and at any time. Resistance is slowly increased over time as you get stronger and add more reps. Some body weight exercises include push ups, planks, squats, burpees, lunges, sit ups, mountain climbers, jumping jacks. It's pretty easy to set up a workout using just body weight exercises. Pick a set amount of time to exercise for. Pick a set of body weight exercises. Alternate exercises based on the body part they work, for example do push ups and then lunges, planks and then squats. Don't do pushups, planks, lunges and then squats. Do between 8 and 10 reps of each exercise. Wait about 15 - 30 seconds or longer in between each exercise type. Then just keep cycling through the routine until the designated amount of time has passed. Picking even one or two bodyweight exercises ca...

Many jobs these days, including mine, involve sitting all day. However, sitting all day long is terrible for the body. The longer I sit, the more tired I get. I try to move around for a few minutes at least every 1 - 2 hours. The recommendation is to move around every 30 minutes, which breaks the workflow, so I push it out a little further. More than that is just too much sitting at once where I can just feel it's been too long. I either start getting antsy or fall asleep depending on the day. On the other hand, it's also not good to stand all day long. The best approach is to alternate short lengths of time doing equal amounts of sitting and standing. Standing burns a few more calories over sitting, but over time they add up. Standing also helps improve blood flow which means better heart health. It helps decrease the risk of heart attack and stroke and boosts metabolism. It will lead to more energy and less disease. It's also an improvement to your health that can be don...

The next step in making a significant improvement in how you feel is to get up, get moving, build muscle. Muscle helps regulate blood sugar by absorbing glucose from the blood. This results in lower amounts of insulin needed to remove glucose from the blood. I never quite got why exercise was always suggested to help lower blood sugar until one day I read how building muscle helps remove sugar from the blood. That was definitely a light bulb moment. The more muscle you have, the less glucose floating through the blood causing damage to the body and the less insulin that needs to be produced to remove the glucose. Exercise releases feel good chemicals like serotonin in the brain which improves mood. Exercise increases heart rate which improves blood flow to the brain, increasing oxygen to the brain which improves memory and helps reduce inflammation. Muscle burns more calories than fat. Muscle also burns calories long after you are done exercising. Exercise also helps improve sleep whic...