Fitness: Adding more activity to your life
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Fitness: Adding more activity to your life
Where do you go from here?
Now that you have read this information, you are ready to plan your exercise program.
Talk with your doctor
If you have questions about this information, print it out and take it with you when you visit your doctor. You may want to mark areas or make notes in the margins where you have questions.
If you would like more information on exercising and fitness, the following resources are available:
Organizations
| America on the Move: University of Colorado | |
| 4200 East 9th Avenue | |
| Suite C263 | |
| Denver, CO 80262 | |
| Phone: | 1-800-807-0077 |
| Web Address: | www.americaonthemove.org |
America On the Move offers free, personalized online resources, interactive tools, community support, and events. This program helps you build eating and activity habits that positively affect your weight and health. Its guidelines include walking an additional 2,000 steps each day and decreasing daily caloric intake by 100 calories. | |
| Shape Up America! | |
| P.O. Box 15009 Native Dancer Road | |
| North Potomac, MD 20878 | |
| Phone: | (240) 715-3900 |
| E-mail: | info@shapeup.org |
| Web Address: | www.shapeup.org |
Shape Up America! is a national coalition of industry and medical experts in nutrition and fitness. Its goals are to make Americans more aware of the importance of maintaining a healthy weight and to provide information about how to lose weight and stay fit. The organization has published several booklets on weight loss and diet, which can be ordered from the Web site. | |
Last Updated:
December 27, 2007- Author:
- Cynthia Tank
- Medical Review:
- Catherine D. Serio, PhD - Behavioral Health
Heather Chambliss, PhD - Exercise Science/Weight Management
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