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When we spend most of our working life taking care of others, we often need that reminder to take care of ourselves. Looking after your physical health is key to supporting your overall health and wellbeing, including your mental health.
To stay healthy, the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines state that adults should try to be active every day and aim to do at least 150 minutes of physical activity over a week, through a variety of activities.
For most people, the easiest way to get moving is to make activity part of everyday life, like walking for health, you do not have to walk for hours. A brisk 10-minute daily walk has lots of health benefits and counts towards your recommended 150 minutes of weekly exercise. Or try cycling instead of using the car to get around. However, the more you do, the better, and taking part in activities such as sports and exercise will make you even healthier.
For any type of activity to benefit your health, you need to be moving quick enough to raise your heart rate, breathe faster and feel warmer.
Virtual exercise programme
At KeepingWellNEL, we have partnered with the London Borough of Havering to deliver a wide range of online exercise classes. There’s something for everyone, the instructors cater to all abilities and classes run at times which suit most schedules.
If you can’t join us for whatever reason you can find below some examples of our classes. More classes can also be found on the programme’s YouTube Channel.
