As indicated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), all of us need two forms of physical activity every week: aerobics and muscle-strengthening.

Aerobic activity includes repetitious exercising of the large muscles to temporarily augment heart rate and breathing. With repetition of aerobic mobility there is an enhancement of the cardio-respiratory fitness. Running, brisk walking, swimming, and cycling are the best forms of aerobic exercises.

Muscle-strengthening exercises are devised in a way to help exercise one or more muscle groups. All the primary muscle groups — legs, hips, back, belly, chest, shoulders, and arms — need to be exercised at least two days every week, as per federal guidelines. Lifting weights, working with resistance bands, and doing pushups, all are forms of muscle-strengthening exercises, as per the CDC.

Every adult requires no less than 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical movement every week, apart from muscle-strengthening movements. If exercise is more vigorous in intensity, 75 minutes in seven days might be sufficient. For even more health benefits, however, more exercise is better: 300 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise or 150 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise, or a combo of the two, recommends CDC.

The more active you remain throughout the week, the better health you will have, instead of limiting your entire physical movement to one day only. In other words, go for 30 min to an hour of physical activity, five days a week. You can divide it into smaller chunks as well: three brief periods of physical exercise a day, for instance.

To make it effective in enhancing wellbeing and wellness, the CDC concludes you have to sustain the activity for minimum 10 minutes at a time.