Range of motion exercises: Range of motion exercises help you to maintain normal joint movements and relieve stiffness. These exercises also increase your flexibility so you can use those joints properly.
Strengthening exercises: Strengthening exercises help you to maintain or restore your muscle strength. Strong muscles protect and support joints affected by arthritis. Strong muscles keep your body in alignment so that you don’t twist or tear the ligaments and tendons that hold your joints together.
Aerobic exercises: Aerobic exercise also helps in an indirect way. When you exercise and eat right, you lose weight. When you lose weight, you take excess pressure off of the effected joints. Some studies have even shown that aerobic exercise can reduce the inflammation in some joints.
How to Get Started
Take it easy. Exercise works best when you are consistent. You can’t be consistent if you over-do it. Exercise at an intensity level that’s challenging for you, but easy enough to maintain for 20 minutes. Eventually, you will work your way up to 45 minutes of exercise, but for now start with what you can do regularly. You will be coming back to the gym almost every day from now on. Pace yourself. You want to work hard, but not too hard.
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