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Forming just a small amount of some new good habits can have a very positive impact on your health and weight control goals. Lets do a little math how physical activity routines can knock the pounds off without you even realizing it.

Do you think 30 hours of exercise a month would help? Wow, thats a lot of extra work. "No it's not", since it's only 90 minutes of irrelevant fat burning time a day (5 days a week ). 90 minutes x 5 days = 450 minutes or ( 7.5 hours per week ). 7.5 hours. x 4 weeks = 30 hours.

Activity 1: Why not start your day with some light aerobic activity and read while you run in place instead of sitting. If you average 20 minutes per day to finish, this adds up like this - 20 min. x 7 days = 140 min. x 4 weeks = 560 minutes. This is almost 10 hours per month of fat burning activity while your doing an evey day normal routine.

Not bad considering you just accomplished ten hours of fat burning exercise without changing your normal routine. Try and find physical activities you enjoy and you'll have no trouble at all ending up with plenty of hours by the end of the week that will turn into a good fitness program.

There are many ways to reap rewards just by adding a little something into your day. One small fill-in routine that is a easy and can help a variety of figure problems, is the next one.

Another Example: This is a three in one routine for stretching, calve muscles,and love handle reduction. Find a counter or table top about waist high and with one hip facing surface top. With one palm down on surface, arm straight, raise your other arm above you in a C shape (like ballerina ). Simply raise up slowly while bending slightly towards the other palm, then lower yourself down onto your heels and repeat for about ten times (repetitions or reps). Then do the other side. Make sure you do enough sets to counter your body type.

Check out how this can add up. Lets say you only do three sets of ten reps per day. By the end of the month you would have racked up 840 repetitions. And you did it at your leisure. ( 3 sets x 10 reps = 30 reps. x 7 days = 210 reps. x 4 = 840 reps. This many repetitions of any kind of exercise will undoubtedly have noticeable benefits.

Just a little proof how the decision to make some fat burning activity a part of your every day life can have a big impact on your weight control and body shaping goals. The key is to make that decision and stick to it and build on it as you progress. The new found energy levels and the fat coming off will only reinforce your resolve to finally stay on a good healthy diet and fitness plan.

One more tid'bit: Since exercise programs can seem like a job almost, it is important that you match your physical activity routines to fit your personality so it becomes fun instead of a dreaded chore. Research shows that only 30 minutes of walking 3 days a week can not only lower your blood pressure but reduce the size of your waist and hips. So don't forget, even a small amount of consistent physical fitness activity will help.