Lets get straight on with the follow-up from the last article here at Health Image and continue talking about healthy exercise in this second part as we carry on with some more great fitness ideas to get your body moving and those fat cells burned off!

We’ll assume you found some Tai Chi classes and have given that a go and we’ll also assume you surprised yourself by actually enjoying it! If not, then at least you’re keeping up with the daily walks and getting your limbs moving. If that’s the case, then you’ll need to start thinking about doing some more light exercise to start burning off the excess fat.

There’s nothing like aerobic type exercises for fat-busting, so either join an aerobics class for beginners, or you can set yourself up some simple aerobic exercises you can do at home.

The main thing to be aware of is that you should always start slow and build up little by little. One of the best forms of simple aerobic exercise is running up and down stairs. Now this is something you can do at home and not look like a jerk, right?

Simply start at the bottom of your home’s staircase (assuming you have one, of course) and then run up to the top. If that gets you out of breath, then stop and rest until you have your breath back, then turn around and run down again. Not too fast, just at a doable pace that is comfortable for you. If you can handle repeating that, then do it. If you feel all wobbly legged and fatigued, then rest and don’t try it again until tomorrow.

If you still have some energy and want to do something else, then take a fairly heavy chair in your sitting room and push it a few feet in one direction and then push it back again. That will force muscles in both your arms, legs and torso to fire up and do some strenuous work in short, manageable bursts. Only do that as many times as you’re comfortable with, then take a rest.

That’s it for starters.

By the way, one important thing you must remember to do whenever you exercise and get out of breath is to relax afterwards and drink some water. Any strenuous exercise will begin to dehydrate you as you sweat, so you MUST replace it with straight water – NOT fizzy soda or coke or anything like that – not even those sugary isotonic sports drinks – it has to be pure still water.

The reason for that is a whole article on its own! I’ll cover that soon.

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