Wellness Central: Exercise

Wellness Central is part of an effort to promote health and wellness to college students, faculty and staff. This video is about exercise and how to get enough of it as a busy student.

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>> I think a good healthy amount of exercise
is once you've worked up a good sweat.

>> I figure 15 to 20 minutes a day.

>> I think from things that I've heard enough
exercise has always been the 30 minutes

of cardio.

>> What I do for exercise is I like
to lift weights most of the time,

and I know that's not enough because my cardio
is really bad, and I've been trying to alleviate

that with a lot more walking and running on the
treadmills, and I can't do that now obviously,

but as of right now, I'm going
through physical therapy,

which is helping me do some cardio exercises
that don't involve, you know, getting on my legs

and moving around because there is
a way to do cardio without having

to exert any pressure on your legs.

>> I like going for walks or jogs
and sometimes taking friends with me.

I would say I probably don't
get enough exercise per week.

>> Usually I do walking.

I'll do curls, you know, lats, and some
forearm presses, you know, things like that,

leg press, front and back, bench press.

>> I don't exercise as often as I would like to
as a full time student, but when I do have time,

I found that really what works
for me is yoga in the morning.

It kind of helps wake you up, or
depending on the type of yoga,

you can do it at night to help you go to bed.

The complications of work and school together,

I kind of feel like I don't
have enough time to exercise.

So, maybe that's an excuse, but-

>> I am currently enrolled in a Tai Chi class,
which is very fun and a great way to exercise

as well as walking around our beautiful
campus and throughout the community.

I believe I get a good amount of exercise,
but more would probably be better.

>> So one of the best ways
to fit physical activity

in your day is just get a physical activity
class squeezed into your schedule somewhere.

So I took took cross-training, and
that had sort of a wide variety.

It had rehab trainers.

You had Stairmasters.

It had weights and treadmills.

We have yoga.

We have Tai Chi.

Tennis is also really big.

We have a bunch of tennis courts on campus.

>> Sitting for too long is not good for you.

You want to make sure that you get up
and do some sort of walking or stretching

for if you're sitting longer
than 20 to 30 minutes at a time,

and you can even find apps online or in
the app store on your phone to help you

or remind you to not sit so long.

There definitely is ways to
work exercise into our schedule.

There's a bunch of fliers from
Maureen, the nurse, on ways you can work

out around the campus, on how many times
you can make laps around the reservoir.

>> Doing 30 minutes a day of exercise
can be very beneficial for your body.