No matter what age you are, you should ideally vary the activities you do as there are different benefits connected to different forms of exercise:
To keep your body supple and flexible, giving you a greater range of movement.
To improve the health of your heart and circulation, whilst also burning calories to help maintain your weight.
To strengthen your bones and muscles, giving you better posture, balance and bone strength.
Take a look at our Activity Index to see which activities are linked to each exercise type.
Keeping it more simple, here are a few ideas for how you can easily get active together:
The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a good way to check if you’re a healthy weight.
Click here to find out what your BMI is by entering a few details into our Calculator!