These activities increase your breathing and heart rate to improve the health of your heart, lung and circulatory system. Strength and balance. These exercises build stronger muscles to improve posture, balance and coordination. Strength exercises also increase your metabolism, which can help keep your weight in check. Stretching before and after activity helps increase the range to which you can bend and stretch joints, muscles and ligaments.
Flexibility helps prevent joint pain and injury.
Your activity program should eventually include all three types of exercises. The good news is that you don't have to do all your exercise at one time during the day. You can accumulate 10-minute periods of activity throughout the day that equal 30 minutes. Use of this site signifies your agreement to the terms of use . A single copy of these materials may be reprinted for noncommercial personal use only.