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Top Ten Reasons To Exercise
Here are some answers to the question:
Why is exercise important?
Here are the top ten reasons to exercise. These will explain the major benefits to exercise and hopefully help you create the motivation necessary to make exercise a permanent part of your lifestyle.
1. Elevates Your Metabolism
Any exercise will substantially elevate your metabolism, which means you burn more calories (and more body fat) every day. By keeping your metabolism elevated you slow down the natural physical decline that normally starts to occur around the age of 30.
2. Increases your aerobic capacity (fitness level) and muscular endurance
This will enable you to go through the day with more energy and enthusiasm and you will achieve more because your body is more ‘fatigue-resistant’.
3. Maintains, tones, and strengthens your muscles
This prevents muscle atrophy (wasting), which is considered a typical part of aging. Not only does a toned, strong body look great but it also gives you greater confidence, makes daily physical tasks easier and improves your health.
4. Reduces heart disease risk
As little as one hour of walking each week can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease risk. The more vigorous the exercise, however, the greater the reduction in heart disease risk. Exactly how exercise reduces heart disease risk is not completely understood. However, there is evidence that exercise has a vasodilating effect on blood vessels (and hence reducing blood pressure) by promoting the production of prostacyclin and nitric oxide.
5. Reduces diabetes risk
Exercise promotes the uptake of glucose by body cells as well as increasing the sensitivity of cell receptors to insulin. This means there is a reduced risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. For those people who have Type 2 diabetes already, exercise is a great way to control their symptoms and lower their risk of developing serious complications.
6. Improves mental health
People often say that exercise makes them feel good and there is evidence to suggest that it may even fight clinical depression better than drugs. It probably has this effect by increasing the production of natural opiates in the body (these are endorphins – the ‘feel good’ hormones).
7. Slows some effects of aging
People are constantly searching for the ‘fountain of youth’, and now there is strong evidence to suggest that exercise is part of the answer.
8. Increases the level of HDL (high-density lipoprotein) ‘good cholesterol’
Regular exercise increases the level of HDL in the blood stream, particularly if combined with a sound nutritional plan.
9. Reduces the risk of death from leading causes
There is an inverse correlation between physical fitness and premature death from leading causes. Finnish researchers reported that poor physical fitness is as serious a risk factor as other well-known causes such as smoking, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.
10. Improves sleep patterns
People who exercise regularly report sleeping more soundly and restfully.
There you have it! The top ten reasons to exercise. Of course there are dozens of reasons why you should exercise and the top ten reasons to exercise is just a sample.
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