Get your body moving in 2023
By Ruby Schwalm a student submission
The New Year is the perfect time for you to get fit and strong. It can mark a new beginning for personal goals and accomplishments. Creating a resolution to get in shape and exercise may be more beneficial than you think.
Karah Schwalm, personal trainer and self-defense instructor, says fitness is an “outlet” for stress and other struggles, as well as a way to stay healthy. “It truly is a great way to keep a healthy mind and body. If you keep your body moving, you’d be surprised with how good you feel.”
Harvard Health Publishing had a similar view. “In the short term, exercise helps to control appetite, boost mood, and improve sleep. In the long term, it reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, depression, and many cancers.”
So, how can you make this goal and accomplish it?
Types of exercise
- Strength Training – Lifting weights to obtain muscular endurance and bone strength
- Cardio Training – Exercises that increase your heart rate and improve your overall endurance
- Stability Training – Includes moves that help your joints achieve a better range of motion and
- flexibility
- Workouts to try
- Tabata – Time interval cardio training
- Weight Training – Use free weights to work your muscles and your stability
- Yoga – Works flexibility in muscles and joints while practicing stability
- Kickboxing – Cardio training with punching bags
- Agility Training – Cardio workouts while helping your start-stop movements
