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Exercise brings the following benefits:
- Increases your capacity to physically do whatever it is you want to do!
- Improves your tolerance to stress
- Improves sleep quality and promotes healthy feelings of fatigue at the right times
- Helps build self confidence, sense of well-being and improves concentration
- It slows the effects of aging
- Improves the efficient function of your physical system: respiratory organs, circulatory system and heart, your digestive system and your metabolism
- Increases benign cholesterol levels, diminishes risk of heart disease and stroke, reduces hypertension
- Helps maintain blood-sugar balance and avoid or manage diabetes better
- Lowers the risk of at least 12 types of cancer
- Helps in the treatment of the above diseases, and the following: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, congestive heart failure or osteoarthritis
- Reduces the incidence of eye disease such as cataracts and age-related macular degeneration
- Generally speeds recovery from most surgeries, injuries and illnesses, while offering a more positive outlook during recovery
- Improves joint suppleness and muscle strength
- Reduces or eliminates back pain through strengthening of abdominal and back muscles
- Strengthens bones and reduces risk of osteoporosis
- Helps you both control your weight and lose it
- Improves mental ability and reduces risk of losing mental capacity over time
- Reduces the risk of, and improves treatment of depression and anxiety
Reasons you should exercise)