The Benefits of Exercise

Why do we need to exercise?

• Reduce the risk of premature death and heart disease
• Reduce the risk of high blood pressure and high cholesterol
• Reduce the risk of developing cancer and diabetes
• Reduce or maintain body weight
• Build and maintain healthy muscles, bones, and joints
• Reduce depression and anxiety
• Improve psychological well-being
• Enhanced work, recreation, sexual and sport performance

...and perhaps the best reason to exercise...

You just feel better. Basically, when you get your heart pumping, and blood circulating, you release endorphins that elevate your mood, and burn calories for several hours and even days afterwards.

Known Benefits Of Aerobic Exercise:

• Increased maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max)
• Improvement in cardivascular/cardiorespiratory function (heart and lungs)
• Increased maximal cardiac output (amount of blood pumped every minute)
• Increased maximal stroke volume (amount of blood pumped with each beat)
• Increased blood volume and ability to carry oxygen
• Reduced workload on the heart (myocardial oxygen consumption) for any given submaximal exercise intensity
• Increased blood supply to muscles and ability to use oxygen
• Lower heart rate and blood pressure at any level of submaximal exercise
• Increased threshold for lactic acid accumulation
• Lower resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure in people with high blood pressure
• Increased HDL Cholesterol (the good cholesterol)
• Decreased blood triglycerides
• Reduced body fat and improved weight control
• Improved glucose tolerance and reduced insulin resistance

Known Benefits Of Strength Training:

• Increased muscular strength
• Increased strength of tendons and ligaments
• Potentially improves flexibility (range of motion of joints)
• Reduced body fat and increased lean body mass (muscle mass)
• Potentially decreases resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure
• Positive changes in blood cholesterol
• Improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity
• Improved strength, balance, and functional ability in older adults

If you do not do some form of exercise and are over 30, it is a scientific fact that you will begin to lose 1/2 to 1 pound of muscle each year, resulting in a lower metabolism, which means that you will burn less calories each day, wich means that if you continue to eat your same portion of meals, you will get fatter and fatter each year until you die.

The amount of training time necessary to dramatically improve ones physical condition is far less than what you have been led to believe; at the most an hour to an hour and a half per week, and in many cases considerably less. Everyone should be able to schedule 30 to 90 minutes of their time each week for something so important.

Think you can't afford the time or expense to exercise?

Wrong. You can't afford not to exercise.

A littel exercise will cost you no more than 20 minutes a day. Not exercising will cost you much more than that. Consider these expenses.

• Heart surgeries can cost well over $200,000
• Heart medications cost as much as $5,000 per year
• Nursing homes cost over $3,000 per month

If you can't move, you can't do anything but lie there and wait to die. If you value your life, getting some exercise should be one of your highest priorities.

The main reason why you dont exercise...Motivation...Energy...Nutrition

You have to have energy to be motivated and you have to eat nutritious food to have energy.

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