Healthcare costs are skyrocketing. What truly surprises us as lifestyle experts is that healthcare today only takes action when someone becomes ill or needs care in some other way. We advocate for preventive healthcare. Regular exercise reduces the risk of illness and improves our well-being. Prevention is better than cure, and that really doesn't take a ton of time.

Live longer and more comfortably

Regular physical activity reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and various forms of cancer, and helps prevent overweight and obesity. Moreover, exercise promotes a positive feeling and reduces stress. This is not only due to the endorphins released during exercise, but also because exercise helps prevent social isolation and promotes social connections. In short, exercise not only helps us live longer, it also improves our quality of life.

The role of the government

With that knowledge, it's actually quite surprising that the government isn't focusing much more on prevention. Investing in sports infrastructure and making sports activities more accessible, including for vulnerable groups like the elderly or people with disabilities, will pay for itself in no time. We also think the government should invest much more in sports at school. This includes—or perhaps especially—high school. This encourages them to stay healthy, something they can benefit from for the rest of their lives. Fortunately, the national government has now made agreements with more than seventy organizations to reduce smoking, problematic alcohol use, and obesity.

The role of the individual

In short, the government has an important role to play, but as individuals, we also have a role to play. By exercising and moving more, you can actively contribute to improving or maintaining your own health. According to the National Sports Survey, lack of time is always an issue in all age groups up to fifty. For older age groups, time is no longer a barrier; health problems are what prevent them from exercising. Health problems that would likely have been much less prevalent if they had given themselves the time to exercise at a younger age. A typical chicken-and-egg situation, then. With the fully automatic Milon circle, time can no longer be an argument for skipping a trip to the gym. With it, you can train your entire body in six 35-minute workouts every month. The best part is: the Milon circle is suitable for everyone, from young to old, from muscle-bound to newcomer, from busy pilots to 63-year-olds with osteoporosis.

We hear it more and more often: carbohydrates, you better not eat them as an athlete, they make you fat. Believe us, this is a myth. In principle, it doesn't matter what you eat to lose weight, as long as your energy balance is – slightly – negative. In this blog, Rémon Koetje, Lifestyle coach and trainer at Happy Bodies in Alkmaar, explains how it works.

Old, sick and fat from carbohydrates

Type 'low carb' into Google and you will get almost three million results. So you can at least say that it is a hot topic. It makes you age faster, it causes diabetes and if you want to lose weight, carbohydrates are absolutely out of the question. The truth is a bit more nuanced. It has never been proven that carbohydrates make you age faster. Carbohydrates do not give you diabetes either. Little is known about the causes of diabetes type 1, but its development probably has to do with predisposition. The causes of diabetes 2 can be found in the corner of obesity, smoking, unhealthy diet and too little exercise. The word 'carbohydrates' does not even appear on the special pages about diabetes type 1 and diabetes type 2 of the Diabetes Fund.

Quality more important than quantity

The Health Council, the independent scientific advisory body for government and parliament, advises to get at least 20 percent of our energy from fat, at least ten percent from protein and 40 to 70 percent from carbohydrates. Of course, a caveat is added to this: it is advisable to eat foods that have been shown to contain nutritious ingredients. It will come as no surprise that foods such as whole grain products, legumes, vegetables and fruit are better for your health than products such as sugar, chips, white rice, cookies and sweets. That is also exactly the advice of the Diabetes Fund: the quality of carbohydrates is more important than the quantity.

Healthy weight loss is about the right balance

Even if you want to lose weight, it's all about balance. Carbohydrates are fine, but eat 'good' carbohydrates and make sure you consume slightly fewer calories than you burn. Strength and endurance athletes need a bit more protein than non-athletes, but according to the Nutrition Center, you get enough protein if you eat healthy and varied. So feel free to leave all those expensive shakes and bars behind. At Happy Bodies, we work with the smart nutrition app from VYTAL. This way, we help you eat healthy, consciously and nutritiously. In addition to balance in your diet, losing weight is also about the right balance between effort and relaxation. You really don't have to start training for a marathon right away. Moderately intensive exercise is fine. With the Milon circle, you train your entire body in two times 35 minutes every ten days, even if you are a bit older or have ailments. That is something that everyone can maintain, right?

That regular physical activity leads to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and a longer life is no longer a surprise to anyone. But is the recommended weekly amount of physical activity sufficient? A recent study shows that it could be stepped up a notch.

Live longer

A recent study, published recently in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, found that adults who engage in two to four times the currently recommended amount of moderate or vigorous physical activity per week live significantly longer. The study followed more than 100,000 people for a period of 30 years. The risk of premature death is reduced by 21 to 23 percent for people who engaged in two to four times the recommended amount of vigorous physical activity per week, and by 26 to 31 percent for people who engaged in two to four times the recommended amount of moderate physical activity per week.

150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of intensive exercise

We already knew that regular physical activity is linked to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. In 2018, the US Department of Health and Human Services recommended that adults engage in at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate physical activity per week or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. A combination of both intensities naturally has a similar effect. The current American Heart Association recommendation is for at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week.

Twice as much exercise, even healthier

Researchers analyzed 30 years of mortality data and medical records from more than 100,000 adults collected during two large studies between 1988 and 2018. Participants were 63 percent women, and more than 96 percent were white adults. The average age was 66, and the average body mass index (BMI) was 26, indicating overweight. Participants self-reported their physical activity by completing a questionnaire every two years. The publicly available questionnaires, updated and expanded every two years, included questions about health, doctor-diagnosed illnesses, family medical history, and personal habits such as cigarette and alcohol use and exercise frequency. Exercise data were reported as the average time spent per week on various physical activities over the past year. Moderate activity was defined as walking, low-intensity exercise, weightlifting, and calisthenics. Vigorous activity included jogging, running, swimming, cycling, and other aerobic exercises. The analysis found that adults who did double the currently recommended time of moderate or vigorous physical activity each week had the lowest long-term risk of mortality.

Some other conclusions

• Participants who met the guidelines for vigorous physical activity had a 31 percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a 15 percent lower risk of death from other conditions.

• Participants who met the guidelines for moderate physical activity had a 22 to 25 percent reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a 19 to 20 percent reduced risk of death from other conditions.

• Participants who performed two to four times the recommended amount of sustained vigorous physical activity (150 to 300 minutes per week) had a 27 to 33 percent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 19 percent lower risk of dying from other conditions.

• Participants who performed two to four times the recommended amount of moderate physical activity (300 to 600 minutes per week) had a 28 to 38 percent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 25 to 27 percent lower risk of dying from other conditions.

 

Intensive endurance training does not involve any additional risk

Moreover, no adverse cardiovascular health effects were found in adults who reported engaging in more than four times the recommended minimum activity levels. This is despite previous studies suggesting that long-term, intense endurance training—think marathons, triathlons, and long-distance cycling—increases the risk of adverse cardiovascular events, including myocardial fibrosis, coronary artery calcification, atrial fibrillation, and sudden cardiac death. The finding of this new study largely allays concerns about the potential harm of engaging in high levels of physical activity. However, it also does not provide an additional reduction in the risk of death.

Maximum benefit

This study demonstrates the importance of the right amount and intensity of physical activity throughout our lives for maintaining good health. It shows that maximum benefits can be achieved through moderate to high levels of moderate or vigorous activity, or a combination of both. People who perform less than 75 minutes of vigorous activity or less than 150 minutes of moderate activity per week can actively contribute to their health by consistently performing approximately 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous activity or 150 to 300 minutes of moderate physical activity. Training with the Milon Circle, a fully automatic circle with fitness equipment that allows you to train your whole body in six 35-minute workouts per month, is a perfect fit.

We are searching en masse for a miracle pill that will magically give us our ideal weight. Unfortunately, that pill does not exist and will never come. Yet it is not all that difficult. 'Everything works, except the person himself', says Rémon Koetje, Lifestyle coach and trainer at Happy Bodies in Alkmaar. In this blog he explains how that works.

Cause of obesity combination of factors

Half of all Dutch adults are moderately or severely overweight and almost 14 percent of adults are severely overweight, according to the website of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. The cause can be found in – a combination of – personal factors such as age, gender, blood pressure or genes, living, residential and working conditions, but of course lifestyle and habits also play a major role. Think of nutrition, exercise and, not to forget, sleep. Odin Nijenhuis, franchisee of Happy Bodies in Aalsmeer and Hoofddorp Floriande, already wrote it in his blog: the person who invents a pill that allows you to lose twenty kilos in a month, never has to work again. But that pill does not exist and will never come. Yet there are plenty of ways to achieve a healthy weight, as long as you are consistent in what you do. Let's zoom in on those lifestyle aspects.

Nutrition

Losing weight starts with making choices in terms of nutrition. You lose weight if you use more energy than you take in: a so-called negative energy balance. For weight loss, it doesn't matter whether you fill your body with hamburgers or spinach, as long as that energy balance is – slightly – negative. But as colleague Danny Kors, head nutrition coach Happy Bodies Lifestyleclubs, wrote in his blog about nutrition and weight loss: your body needs good fuel and by eating as many unprocessed products as possible, you will lose weight faster. At Happy Bodies we work with the smart nutrition app from VYTAL. This way we can help you with a nutrition plan that is tailor-made for you: how many calories do you need, what is a good number of eating moments and how do you make healthier choices. Because let's face it: healthy weight loss is not about filling up, but about good nutrition.

Movement

When you exercise, you burn calories. Regular exercise therefore helps if you want to lose weight, because it contributes to that negative energy balance. One catch: do not overestimate how many calories you burn. If you have walked for an hour and then reward yourself with a delicious apple pie, you will miss your goal. But there are even more reasons to exercise regularly. For example, you improve your immune system and reduce the chance of a chronic disease. Strength training in particular contributes to better health in various ways. And rest assured, you really do not have to exercise like crazy. Moderately intensive exercise already works wonders.

Sleep

'You win the Tour in bed', Joop Zoetemelk once said. But you also lose weight in bed. Various studies have shown that people who sleep less than five hours a night gain more weight than people who sleep longer. Not only are temptations lurking late at night, the body also needs sleep for recovery and regulation. If you sleep too little, your body produces more ghrelin, the hormone that causes a feeling of hunger. So just go to bed on time.

We're all living longer. The number of people aged 100 and older will almost quadruple between now and 2040. But the older we get, the greater the risk of all sorts of lifestyle diseases. In this blog post, we'll explain what you can do to grow old healthily and vitally.

Disease burden

Our life expectancy is increasing. While we reached an average age of 81.5 in 2015, that figure will be almost 86 in 2040. At the same time, the number of chronic conditions is increasing. Just as in 2015, neck and back pain, osteoarthritis, and diabetes will be the most common in 2040. Cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health disorders will cause the greatest disease burden. Fortunately, there's a lot we can do to ensure healthy aging.

Neck and back complaints

When you have neck and back pain, you're often tempted to avoid the painful areas. But don't be fooled, sitting too much will only make the pain worse. A gentle walk is always a good way to reduce your symptoms. Doing the right exercises—at the right intensity—can also strengthen your neck and back muscles. This will reduce your symptoms. Start slowly and seek guidance. Stretching exercises also help, keeping your muscles strong and flexible.

Osteoarthritis

With osteoarthritis, the cartilage has thinned. The surface is no longer smooth, but irregular. This makes joint movement more difficult. Osteoarthritis is often wrongly associated with joint wear and tear. People are therefore quick to avoid joints. However, to reduce symptoms, it's important to stay active. This keeps your joints flexible and prevents symptoms from recurring or worsening. Moreover, exercised muscles support your joints.

Diabetes

Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a disease in which the body can no longer maintain a balanced blood sugar level. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and this form of diabetes is unpreventable. The risk of the most common form of diabetes, type 2 diabetes, can be reduced by up to half by getting enough exercise, eating healthily, not smoking, and avoiding obesity.

Cancer

Sometimes your genes play a role in developing cancer, as we read on the KWF website. Sometimes it's just a matter of sheer bad luck. You also have little control over things like air pollution. But by not smoking, being careful with the sun, eating sensibly, and getting enough exercise, you can reduce your risk of cancer.

Cardiovascular diseases

It's starting to get boring, but you can also reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease by living a healthy lifestyle. By eating healthily, getting enough exercise, and relaxing regularly, you nurture your heart and blood vessels.

Mental complaints

Mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety, can also be reduced by regular exercise, according to research conducted by the Mulier Institute with support from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). The greatest benefits are achieved with moderate to intensive activity, when your heart rate increases and your breathing quickens, but you can still talk.

How much exercise?

The message should be clear: exercise is good. But how much exactly should you exercise? The exercise guidelines provide a good indication. But you don't have to jump off the couch and start exercising like crazy. Take small steps; that's what sticks best. With the Milon Circle, you train your entire body in two 35-minute sessions every ten days. Also, take the stairs, bike ride, or go for a nice walk—you'll be well on your way!

Losing twenty kilos in a month—whoever invents a pill for that will never have to work again? Despite what social media would have us believe, losing weight requires patience, a lot of patience. But there is hope. Odin Nijenhuis, franchisee of Happy Bodies in Aalsmeer and Hoofddorp Floriande, explains in this blog how to stay motivated to achieve your goal.

Good health requires work

I see many people around me struggling to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Good health—just like challenging work and a good relationship—requires work. When I spoke with the founders of Happy Bodies about their concept, I was immediately enthusiastic. So, when they decided to expand their success through a franchise, I didn't hesitate. On September 1, 2019, I opened the doors of my first location in Hoofddorp Floriande, and on January 15 of this year—the day gyms were allowed to reopen—the second location in Aalsmeer followed.

Wrong expectations

What I find truly special is that people often come to us with the wrong expectations. They picture the traditional image of a gym: loud music, lots of mirrors, sweaty bodies, heavy weights, and seeing and being seen. Happy Bodies isn't a gym; we're a lifestyle club. We're very accessible, have a homey atmosphere, and in 35 minutes you can train your entire body. And—perhaps most importantly—our coaches are truly dedicated to you. If you have a health challenge to tackle, we're happy to help.

Gaining weight is a gradual process, losing weight should be too

Research by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) shows that approximately half of Dutch people aged 20 and older were overweight in 2020. A staggering 37 percent are moderately overweight, and 14 percent are severely overweight. When people want to do something about this, they often set far too ambitious a goal. This can be detrimental to their motivation. Those ten or twenty kilos of excess weight weren't gained in a month, and you won't lose them in a month either. Gaining weight is almost always a gradual process. Every year, you gain a kilo, and step by step, you become less and less energetic. Until you've reached your limit.

Burn more energy with the right nutrition

Losing weight in a healthy and responsible way is also a gradual process. Crash diets that require starving yourself don't work, or only temporarily. You lose weight quickly, but the weight comes back just as quickly, creating a yo-yo effect. This is not only very frustrating, but also dangerous, as research by Columbia University commissioned by the American Heart Association has shown. It can also backfire. By maintaining your nutrition and making the right choices, you stimulate your body to burn more energy.

You eat an elephant in pieces

How do you eat an elephant? In pieces. That's also the advice we give people who want to lose weight. By setting interim goals, you stay motivated. Start by losing five kilos in six months. Discuss with your coach how you can achieve that, and be patient. If you look at your progress week by week, it might only seem like small steps, but if you look back after six months, you'll have dropped a dress size!

10,000 steps a day, necessary evil or nonsense?

You've probably heard of the rule that you should take at least 10,000 steps every day? This statement is not directly reflected in the advice that the government gives us. They use a completely different exercise standard. We will explain exactly how it works with those 10,000 steps per day in this article.

What is the 2021 exercise standard?

The exercise standard refers to a minimum effort per week that is required to exercise healthily. The exercise standard has been the same in the Netherlands for a number of years:

• Adults: At least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise 5 days a week
• Children: Do at least one hour of moderate-intensity exercise every day.
• At least twice a week some form of strength training

These 30 minutes do not have to be in one go, but can also be divided into three times of 10 minutes or, for example, two times of 15 minutes.

Moderate intensity exercise

Moderate-intensity exercise naturally sounds a bit vague. It would be easier if it were clearly described what this entails. It comes down to the fact that you should at least achieve an elevated heart rate. However, you must still be able to talk. If you cannot do that, that is more than moderate intensity. Of course, it is not wrong to do more than moderate-intensity exercise. The physical activity guideline is a minimum, not a maximum.

Some examples of activities that fall under moderate-intensity exercise:

• Walking
• Misuse
• Heavier household tasks such as vacuuming, cleaning.
• Swimming

Origin 10,000 steps

The Japanese physician Dr. Yoshiro Hatano is the inventor of the 10,000 steps rule. Dr. Hatano researched the correlation between exercise and health. He translated the minimum exercise he considered necessary for a healthy life into the number of steps you need to take. According to this Japanese physician, we humans take an average of 6,000 steps per day.

These are the steps we take in our normal life. Think of all the movements you make in a day, for example:

• From your bed to the bathroom
• Walking through your house
• To get the mail
• Doing the shopping.

According to Dr. Hatano, half an hour of extra exercise every day would be just enough to meet his exercise standard. A half-hour walk is about 4,000 steps. 6,000 + 4,000 = 10,000. Now, the problem is that here in the Netherlands we don't take 6,000 steps a day, but rather 2,000 to 3,000. So if those 10,000 steps are the “holy grail,” then we really need to start walking a lot more. Fortunately, that is not necessary.

Why is walking healthy?

The moment you start moving or walking, you put your body to work:

• Your heart rate increases
• Your breathing increases
• Your body transports oxygen and sugar to your muscles
• Your blood circulation also increases.
• It stabilizes your blood sugar levels

And that last one is very good. When you move or do sports, your body moves 25 liters of blood per minute through your body. Normally that is only 5 liters of blood per minute. Prof. physiologist Maria Hopman: "Because the blood is pumped so hard through your blood vessels, these blood vessels are stimulated and they release all kinds of beneficial substances. That helps against arteriosclerosis and helps keep your organs such as your heart, brain and kidneys young." Our body is also made to move. In prehistoric times we were hunter-gatherers. Our genes still date from that time. However, we no longer have to move as much, we get our food in the supermarket and we mainly do our work sitting down. Maria Hopman, who is researching the connection between activity, inactivity and the development of chronic diseases: "We can now link 30 chronic diseases to our lack of activity, or lack of exercise." Do we really have to take 10,000 steps?
The short answer is “No”. But it is not bad to walk that much. If you look at this rule from the perspective of being healthy longer (read: dying later), research by I-Min Lee, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, shows that the magic limit is 7,500 steps. According to this research, people who take more steps than 7,500 would not live longer. You can also argue that you do not need to take extra steps to exercise moderately intensively. After all, one step is not the same as another. At Happy Bodies you always train for only 35 minutes, strength and cardio combined, so you have a continuously increased heart rate. In this way you take two elements from the exercise standard in one go: 35 minutes of (moderately) intensive training and strength training. If you come to the gym twice a week, you have already trained for 70 minutes (out of 150) and you have met the strength training standard 100%.

Ten thousand steps, it seems like the new holy grail when it comes to health and weight loss. But is that actually true? We at Happy Bodies went to investigate.

Manpo Kei

The story goes that Yoshiro Hatano, a scientist at Japan's Kyushu University of Health and Welfare, once came up with the advice to take ten thousand steps a day. He predicted that the Japanese would follow the Americans in terms of lifestyle and in 1965 he invented the Manpo-Kei, a pedometer. 'Man' means ten thousand, 'po' means steps and 'kei' stands for meter: a ten thousand pedometer. Ten thousand step walking associations quickly sprang up all over Japan and years later, in 2015, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare adopted the advice of ten thousand steps a day. However, no hard evidence has ever been found for this recommendation.

Sitting is the new smoking

So let it go, that advice? Definitely not! The Health Council advises us to exercise moderately intensively for about 150 minutes a week. In addition, it is advisable to do muscle-strengthening exercises twice a week. Also make sure that you do not sit still for too long. Professor of neuropsychology and movement sciences Erik Scherder is also an advocate of moderately intensive exercise. In one of his guest blogs for health insurer Zilveren Kruis he writes: An hour on your bottom is five minutes sooner dead. Physical inactivity is the fourth cause of death worldwide and that makes sitting the new smoking, according to him.

What is moderate intensity exercise?

But what exactly is moderately intensive exercise? That is different for everyone, we read on the website of the Dutch Heart Foundation, but exercise is most effective when your heart starts beating faster and you get warm. That can be done by a brisk walk, but you can also go cycling, swimming or dance. A pedometer can definitely motivate, but it is certainly not the holy grail. If you exercise with the Milon circle, you train your entire body in two times 35 minutes every ten days and that is also possible if you are a bit older or suffer from ailments. If you also take the stairs once more, do some shopping by bike, go for a walk every now and then or jump in the pool every now and then, you are well on your way.

Bart Rovers is the owner of Happy Bodies in Eindhoven. Bart firmly believes that health and freedom go hand in hand. The benefits are enormous, and it doesn't have to take much time. He explains why in this blog post.

Work on your health in a short time

I've been active in the sports world for 25 years. I originally trained as a physical therapist, and my passion is improving the triangle of sports, health, and wellness. Somewhere along the way, I discovered the Milon Circle. I was a fan from day one: working on your health by training for 35 minutes twice every ten days—isn't that fantastic? I'm convinced that health and freedom go hand in hand. After all, if you can do what you want every day, you have optimal freedom. Whether it's enjoying your work or being a grandmother who can enjoy spending time with your grandchildren, health and vitality determine how easily you do things.

Sports for everyone

The Happy Bodies concept is unique and perfectly aligns with my partner Johan and my approach to sports and health. Personal contact and genuine attention are central to every Happy Bodies location. Employees are also given the opportunity to develop and deepen their knowledge. For example, at Happy Bodies in Eindhoven, we have many specialized professionals. These include exercise physiotherapists, a nutritionist, an oncology specialist, a physiotherapy coach, and someone specializing in cardiac rehabilitation. It's a place where everyone can train, even those with limited health—think cancer, obesity, rheumatism, diabetes, or COVID-19—are welcome.

Better in, better out

For example, research shows that if you're fitter going into cancer treatment, there's a good chance you'll be fitter afterward. Better in, better out, we call it. It also significantly improves your quality of life during treatment. Of course, you shouldn't just start exercising. But with your doctor's approval, a fitness trainer specializing in oncology can add significant value to your life. Such a specialized trainer understands the side effects and challenges you may face like no other and can offer a personalized fitness program. It's fantastic to see people struggling with their health leave our club with a big smile. That's what makes me jump out of bed every morning.

Live Fit the Oak

Save on healthcare costs

The added value of a personalized training plan doesn't just apply to people with poor health, of course. There's another very good reason to get started. Regular exercise improves your immune system. This can reduce your risk of developing and dying from chronic illness by more than thirty percent. Considering the government's goal of saving €5 billion in healthcare costs, I see a valuable role for our lifestyle clubs.

Marianne Filius (63) has been a passionate athlete at Happy Bodies Heemstede for about seven years. What's special is that Marianne has osteoporosis. This doesn't stop her from continuing to enjoy her workouts. By strengthening her back and abdominal muscles, she regularly enjoys pain-free periods. In this blog post, Marianne explains why she believes this form of training is so beneficial for her body.

We'll see about that.

I work as a project manager for the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, am the mother of three adult children, a grandmother of two grandchildren, and live with my boyfriend, who also has three children. It's a busy life. I've been working out at Happy Bodies in Heemstede for about seven years now, and I'm very satisfied. About three years ago, I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. Because my bones are very fragile, I have several intervertebral fractures, which can cause significant back pain. The doctors told me I'd just have to learn to live with it. We'll see, I thought, and rightly so. Strength training has proven to be very good for me. It strengthens the back muscles surrounding those fractures. My core is also getting stronger, which in turn puts less strain on my back. My body is quite strong, and I regularly have periods without pain.

Correct exercises at the correct intensity

Rémon, my trainer at Happy Bodies, encouraged me to start training with heavier weights. Many people with a condition like this tend to stay on the couch and spare their bodies. But if you do it under good supervision, it is actually better to challenge your body. The unique thing about Happy Bodies is that everyone can train there. When you start, the innovative Milonizer quickly scans your body based on biometric markers. This ensures that all equipment is always set up correctly automatically, even if you have physical complaints. This way you always get the right exercises at the right intensity, very well-balanced. And working out in the Milon circle a maximum of once every 5 days for 35 minutes is very manageable. No, my osteoporosis is not going away, but because I have made my body stronger, I experience hardly any pain anymore. How great is that?!