Keeping Active

Regular physical activity is associated with lower rates of depression and anxiety across all age groups.

Exercise is essential for slowing age-related cognitive decline and for promoting well-being.

But it doesn’t need to be particularly intense for you to feel good – slower-paced activities, such as walking, can have the benefit of encouraging social interactions as well providing some level of exercise.

Today, why not get physical? Here are a few ideas:

• Take the stairs not the lift.
• Go for a walk at lunchtime.
• Walk into work – perhaps with a colleague – so you can ‘connect’ as well.
• Get off the bus one stop earlier than usual and walk the final part of your journey to work.
• Organise a work sporting activity.
• Have a kick-about in a local park.
• Do some ‘easy exercise’, like stretching, before you leave for work in the morning.
• Walk to someone’s desk instead of calling or emailing.