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The Benefits of Exercise: How to Find the Right Routine for You
Exercise is essential for your health and well-being, but finding a routine that works for you can be challenging. Whether running, swimming, or yoga — or something else entirely — finding the correct form of exercise can be difficult.
Once you do find something that works for you, there are many benefits from making it part of your daily routine: improved sleep quality, reduced stress levels and anxiety symptoms, better overall moods and attitudes toward life situations and challenges, less pain from arthritis joint disease, better cardiovascular fitness levels (which reduces risk factors for heart disease), higher energy levels during the day, the list goes on and on.
Everybody’s different.
There are no right or wrong answers to the question of how much exercise you should be doing, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach that will work for everybody. Instead, you have to find a suitable physical activity for your own body and mind, not what your friends are doing or what an article says is best.
The same holds with your diet: there are plenty of healthy options, so take stock of what works best for you. For example, if a friend tells you they lost weight by cutting carbs from their diet and replacing them with avocado toast every morning…
