Excerpt from Bragg’s Healthy Lifestyle Book — Chapter 7
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You have roughly 640 muscles and all these muscles must be used! If you do not use them, you lose them! If they are not used, they then start to lose their tone, strength and flexibility! Exercise need not be violent and there are hundreds of ways to exercise the human body. The best and greatest of all exercise is brisk walking: no special equipment is required except good walking shoes. You can walk vigorously, swinging your arms, for a good workout or just take a stroll. When you walk and breathe in deeply as you stride along you are building Vital Force and stimulating the eliminating and cleansing processes. After walking, swimming is the second-greatest exercise. Any sport that brings into play the muscles of the body can be part of your daily healthy lifestyle. Tennis and even gardening are considered wonderful exercise.
You should also have a 20 to 30 minute daily exercise program of stretching, aerobics, etc. and breathing exercises. The best exercise for the lower abdomen and lower back muscles is to lie on your back and raise both your legs up slowly to a vertical position and hold for a few seconds. Next, slowly lower them until your heels almost touch the floor, then slowly raise back up to a vertical position again. Important: do this exercise slowly and increase the repetitions daily until you can do 30. The best exercise for the internal and external stomach muscles is the half sit-up crunch. Lie flat on your back with knees bent up and your hands clasped behind your head, now come up and bring elbows towards bent knees and hold for one minute. Slowly lower your back to the floor. Repeat this exercise daily until you are able to do 20 with ease.
