Fitness Tips for Corporate Professionals

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Fitness Tips for Corporate Professionals

• Fitness Tips for Corporate Professionals, With
  extremely erratic work schedules, keeping track
  of the food and calorie intake has become next to
  impossible for individuals.

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Corporate Professionals

• As the world moves faster by the day and
  competition is soaring high in every field of
  work, we might often find ourselves growing a
  little more stressed and a little more anxious
  with each passing day. With a never-ending work
  schedule and unrealistic deadlines, individuals
  have now begun to put in extra hours of work
  which is not only taking a toll on their mental
  health, but also on their physical well-being.

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Fitness and a Sedentary Lifestyle
With the thin line between professional and
personal life fading fast enough, a lack of
physical exercise and excess consumption of junk
food is leading to health problems for
many. With extremely erratic work schedules,
keeping track of the food and calorie intake has
become next to impossible for individuals.
Chronic Sleep Deprivation
Chronic sleep deprivation has been shown to
affect overall health, performance at work, and
safety. The unending stresses of daily life are a
major reason individuals fail to get a good
nights rest.
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Chronic Sleep Deprivation
Chronic sleep deprivation has been shown to
affect overall health, performance at work, and
safety. The unending stresses of daily life are a
major reason individuals fail to get a good
nights rest. Sleep deprivation or lack of sleep
has been shown to decrease the quality of life,
affect socializing, impair memory and decrease
overall performance and mental awareness. With
sleep problems on the rise, many individuals are
now finding it hard to keep up with the
never-ending demands of their job.
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Obesity
Obesity is and has been a growing problem for
some time now, courtesy of an increase in fast
food chains, over-exhausting work hours, and
dangerously low activity levels. Time and again,
research has shown a number of health dangers
associated with a sedentary lifestyle and
obesity. These include, but are not limited to,
various heart diseases, diabetes, high blood
pressure, and fertility problems in women. While
health problems are not guaranteed, obesity sure
increases the risks. Excessive weight gain can
also lead to a rise in blood pressure leading to
possible blood clots, strokes and heart attacks.
The risk of obesity can be reduced by decreasing
salt intake, lowering fat consumption, and
implementing a diet rich in fruits and
vegetables. A few studies also indicate that as
many as 40 of cancers are linked to obesity and
high-fat diets.
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Diabetes
Over the last two decades, the global scale has
seen an increase in diabetes. While there are two
types of diabetes, a majority of the individuals
are seen suffering from Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes
causes the body to completely stop producing
insulin, or the insulin produced by the body
fails to work effectively. This means that the
body cannot break down the glucose from the food
we consume effectively, causing it to remain
unprocessed in the blood leading to high sugar
levels. Type 2 diabetes is linked strongly to
obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Since
technology and long working hours have taken over
the world, Type 2 diabetes has consistently been
on the rise. Other risk factors would be genetic
inheritance and in some cases, ethnic
origin. Excessive consumption of sweet foods and
sweet dishes leads to obesity which in turn
increases the risks of Type 2 diabetes and a
number of other health problems, too. An
increase in sedentary lifestyle is now causing
diabetes to affect the younger generation as well.
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Blood Pressure
The heart is the strongest muscle in the body.
Its job is to pump blood to all parts of the
body. Oxygen-rich blood is pumped from the heart
to all the organs of the body. Impure blood is
then carried back to the heart to get oxygenated
understand bumped back out again. As the blood
passes through the arteries, the force it exerts
on the arterial walls is called blood
pressure. Systolic blood pressure is the pressure
in the blood vessels when the heart is pumping
blood out. Diastolic pressure is the pressure in
the blood vessels when blood is traveling to the
heart again. The heart goes from contracting to
releasing every time the blood is pushed out into
circulation. High blood pressure can lead to an
increase in heart attacks and strokes that can
eventually shorten the lifespan.
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How To Start Exercising Even When You Wish You
Didnt Have To
Stated below are the health and fitness tips for
all those who have sacrificed, or are on their
way to sacrificing their health for long hours of
work. The workplace is where individuals now
spend most of their time, so practicing wellness
at work on a regular basis seems like the only
practical solution for all their dilemmas. Slow
and steady change is what one should be aiming
at. The idea is to set a schedule and then stick
to it. Deciding to dedicate a certain amount of
time to physical activity will help the body get
accustomed to movement. Decide to dedicate a
minimum of 20 minutes each day to movement.
Once the body gets used to going 20 minutes, try
to amp up the level of exercise or increase the
resistance within those 20 minutes. Once you
find yourself being able to workout for a
continuous 20 minutes with little or no effort,
try to increase the time period from 20 to 25-30
minutes and so on. The idea here is to help the
mind and body understand the benefits of physical
exercise which are not only limited to weight
loss.
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Workplace Workouts
With health and fitness awareness now doing the
rounds, we tend to constantly hear about how one
should introduce some form of physical activity
for at least 30 to 40 minutes daily. But not many
are able to spare the time to do so. Perhaps,
some prefer to spend their spare time doing
indulging in other activities rather than care
for their health. Either way, now would be a
good time to address the situation and all the
stress that has been accumulated over a period of
time as it does nothing but take a toll on our
relationships, appearance, and most of all, our
mental health. Individuals working from morning
to night might find their bodies feeling stiff
after a long days work. All one feels like doing
after a hard day at work is get home at the
earliest possible and get into bed. But what one
needs to realize is that our bodies need more
than just that to keep illnesses at bay.
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• Taking a two-minute break every 45 minutes to
  stroll around while working will also add to the
  little effort.
• And most importantly, remember that adding a bit
  of physical activity to your day does not give
  you a free pass to binge on unhealthy foods
  consisting of nothing but empty calories and poor
  nutrition.
• It is important to remember that if you are
  exhausted, unfit, or have been ill in the past,
  all you might be able, to begin with, is 5 to 10
  minutes of physical activity a day. But that is
  absolutely fine, too, as long as you can make an
  effort to do it.
• Try increasing the level of activity a little
  more each week. And remember, exercise is not a
  competition. Every individuals body is
  different.
• This means that everyone has a different level of
  endurance which can be improved over time.
  Well-being, healthy eating, and fitness is not a
  fad nor is it dieting.
• It is a way of life, and so, as individuals
  living a fast-paced life, we must make conscious
  efforts to devote a small amount of time to
  health, fitness, and well-being for without
  health freedom, and money are all worthless!

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