Exercise definitely helps your body in every way making you feel more
vital. Vitality is the key to a good life. When exercising your
vitality increases and with it comes improvement in both your mental
alertness and your sense of well being.
Exercise burns body fat.
When you go on a reduced diet to lose weight, what you lose at first is
mainly water and protein. Water accounts for most of your initial
weight loss and it's temporary. The rest of what you lose is protein
from your muscles and if your goal is to look better and feel good,
this is not what you want. It's only after several weeks on a
low-calorie diet that your body starts burning fat.
Everybody knows that exercising burns calories but what people don't
realize is that exercise does far more than just burn calories while
you're exercising. It will rev up your metabolism and will continue to
use extra calories even after you stop exercising. So if you exercise
in the morning, you get the calorie-burning bonus all day long. At the
same time through exercise, the body fat that you'll lose will be
replaced by lean muscle tissue. The more muscle tissue you have the
less body fat.
Other benefits of exercising
The weight-control benefits of exercise go way beyond the direct effect
of calorie-burning. Vigorous exercise will also decrease hunger. After
a hard workout session, you may find that you won't get hungry for an
hour or more.
Exercise is also a natural relaxant and produces a lasting euphoric
effect. The good feelings caused by vigorous exercise reduces the
chance that you'll eat to relieve emotions such as; boredom, anger,
frustration and depression.
Due to stronger muscles and greater flexibility, your posture will be
improved. Exercise strengthens the bones by preventing the loss of
calcium.
Your lungs will be strengthened, your heart will be stronger, your
heart rate and perhaps your blood pressure will be lowered improving
the ability of your heart to pump more blood with less effort.
Through exercise even your brain benefits. More oxygen to your brain
cells makes your mind work faster allowing you to be more alert and to
have better reasoning powers.
Exercise will prime your body so that you require less sleep. It will improve the quality of sleep and it will be restful.
Regular exercise helps relieve stress and anxiety responsible for
fatigue and premature aging. It is an important weapon against
depression. There is increasing evidence that physical activity is of
value in helping to overcome or prevent emotional tension and in
helping to prevent many critical diseases.
To gain better health, it's important to get moderate-intensity
activity into your daily routine. Choose an activity that you will
enjoy and that fit in with your daily schedule. If you want to lose
weight and keep it off, exercise is the only way. Combine increased
activity and good eating habits and you have the basic ingredients for
better health.
