Managing Lifestyle Changes - Exercise - Page 2
According to the government, only 37 per cent of men and 24 per cent of women take enough exercise to get any benefit from it. To avoid obesity, heart disease and other life-limiting conditions, the chief medical officer (the government's top doctor) recommends the following:
  • Adults should do a minimum of 30 minutes moderate-intensity physical activity, five days a week.
  • To make it more manageable your daily half-hour exercise could be made up of three ten-minute bursts of activity spread through the day.
  • The activity can be a 'lifestyle activity' such as walking to the shops or taking the dog out, or structured exercise or sport, or a combination of these. But it does need to be of at least moderate intensity.
  • People who are at specific risk from obesity, or who need to manage their weight because of a medical condition, need 45-60 minutes of exercise at least five times a week.
As a guide exercise of moderate intensity will make you a little warm or sweaty and slightly out of breath but no more than this.

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