We explore how to add more exercise into your daily routine

We all know exercise and diet is the way to a long and healthy life. If your body is functioning at its optimum level, you’re going to think faster, feel happier, be more energetic and less stressed.

What’s more, you’re less likely to get one of the many diseases that can shorten your life, including coronary heart disease (Ireland’s No.1 killer), high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes.

The key to exercise is finding something you enjoy, so it won’t feel like such a chore. Love the water? Swimming uses all the major muscle groups in the body at once, so it’s a great calorie-burner. Good freestylers will burn 100 calories every 10 minutes (more than jogging). Aerobic dance can burn upwards of 443 calories per hour, while a kickboxing class burns 585 calories in a 60-minute session. If you’re looking for something a little less strenuous, then golf could be worth a swing. It may not be the most strenuous of sports, but it still burns calories. In fact, nine holes of golf, while carrying your clubs, uses about 820 calories.

So how much exercise is enough?

A brisk 20-minute walk each day is all it takes, reveals a recent study. Scientists at Cambridge University looked at the effects of obesity and exercise on 334,161 European men and women whose progress was followed for 12 years. They found that people who engaged in moderate levels of daily exercise – equivalent to taking an energetic 20-minute walk – were up to 30% less likely to die than those classified as inactive.

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