Exercise Now, Travel later

Brisk walking for 30 to 60 minutes every day (covering 5 km per hour) can improve your body's natural defence system. The cardiovascular benefits of walking are biologically plausible; like other forms of regular moderate exercise, walking improves cardiac risk factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, vascular stiffness and inflammation, and mental stress. And walking also helps protect against dementia, peripheral artery disease, obesity, diabetes, depression, colon cancer, and even erectile dysfunction. Start walking during quarantine while maintaining social distance.

Biking is a top-notch cardio workout. You'll burn about 400 calories an hour. Biking is a low-impact exercise that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, from young children to older adults. It is also fun, cheap, and eco-friendly. Plus it strengthens your lower body, including your legs and hips. The benefits of cycling are almost endless but nothing feels better than just taking a cycle and go exploring the green lanes and parks. Biking combines physical exercise with being outdoors and exploring new views. You can ride solo – giving you time to process worries or concerns, or you can ride with a group that broadens your social circle.

Any kind of exercise during quarantine is good food for you. Whether you are young or old, overweight, or fit, Yoga has the power to calm the mind and keep you fit. Yoga can be done in the comfort of home and along with your family members. Yoga offers numerous tools to shift the balance of the autonomic nervous system to the parasympathetic side and lower the levels of stress hormones such as cortisol. It also offers many physical benefits, including increased strength and flexibility, better balance and coordination, improved reaction times, better lung function, heightened cardiovascular conditioning, and weight loss.

When you are trying to be more physically active it’s useful to keep track of your performance. Fitness tip apps can help you get your daily steps, calories burned, or distance covered. You can set targets and keep checking the dashboard and stay motivated. Keep focusing on getting in shape, staying in shape, and working out. Owning an android and iOS device there are plenty of apps that can help you along the way. Some free fitness app you can check out is RunKeeper, Strava, or Sworkit. Keep working on improving your health with the help of any fitness app.

By downloading the InterMiles app , you use our in-built Pedometer and earn miles while you're getting fit with our Steps to Miles feature. Basically, with the InterMiles app on your mobile, you will be rewarded with 1 mile for every 500 steps you take.

While at home you should take out some time for fun. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we stopped playing. We must carve out some leisure time and engage in playing games whether boardgames, outdoors or on your mobile. Playing games has proven to fuel imagination, creativity, problem-solving abilities, and emotional well-being. At InterMiles we have tried to make your desk-breaks fun and fulfilling. Download our fun InterMiles app and start playing games which also gives you Miles as you play. You can use these points to get yourself online subscriptions, shopping, gift vouchers, fuel, merchandise on the Reward Store, and much more. You can also use your miles for free flights and free hotel stays whenever you plan to travel next.

Sleep is something you can catch up with now that you have more time at home. Make sure you are sleeping right and not hiding behind screens. Sleeping well directly affects your mental and physical health. A good night’s sleep is vital to our physical health and emotional wellbeing. That’s why the benefits of good sleep should never be underestimated. Get proper rest regularly. This helps reduce stress, improve your memory, lower your blood pressure, strengthen immunity, maintain your weight, and many more.

When you are having a bad day, have you tried shopping therapy? Shopping can be a rich source of mental preparation. As people shop, they’re naturally visualising how they’ll use the products they’re considering, and in doing so, they’re also visualising their new life. And visualisation is a performance booster and anxiety reducer. InterMiles gives you a platform for shopping while earning InterMiles points with our Partners - Amazon, Myntra, BigBasket, FirstCry, Urban Ladder, Woohoo, TataCLiQ, Happily Unmarried, Lenskart.

Laugh and smile more often. Laughing exercise involves some warm-up clapping and chanting, a few deep breaths with prolonged exhalation, 15 to 20 minutes of laughter. Laughing exercises interspersed with deep breathing, and then 15 to 20 minutes of laughter meditation. As adults, we often forget to have a good laugh and smile. Relax, and try to enjoy life in the company of your loved ones. A good laugh can go a long way to relieve stress, improve mood, and make you healthier.

This is a good time to eat healthier and make yourself fitter so that you can take a trip that is a bit beyond current your fitness level. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” H. Jackson Brown Jr. Get the heart rate going when the world opens up for us to conquer, start with walking and other exercises during quarantine today.

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