Research overwhelmingly shows that regular exercise lowers the risk for many diseases, enhances the functioning of virtually every physiological system in the human body and improves psychological well-being.
- Helps you to more effectively manage stress.
- Helps you to lose weight – especially fat weight.
- Improves the functioning of your immune system.
- Reduces medical and health care expenses.
- Reduces your risk of getting heart disease.
- Increase your level of muscle strength.
- Improves athletic performance.
- Can help relieve the pain of tension headaches.
- Allows you to consume greater quantities of food and still maintain caloric balance.
- Helps you sleep easier and better.
- Enhances sexual desire, performance and satisfaction.
- Reduces the risk of developing high blood pressure.
- Increase the density and breaking strength of bones.
- Improves your physical appearance.
- Increases circulating levels of HDL (good) cholesterol.
- Assists in efforts to stop smoking.
- Helps you to relax.
- Can help improve short-term memory in older adults.
- Helps to maintain weight loss – unlike dieting.
- Helps to relieve many of the common discomforts of pregnancy (backache, heartburn, constipation, etc.)
- Reduces your anxiety level.
- Helps control blood pressure in people with hypertension.
- Protects against “creeping obesity.”
- Reduces vulnerability to various abnormal heart rhythms.
- Improves the likelihood of survival from a heart attack.
- Helps to overcome jet lag.
- Slows the rate of joint degeneration in people with osteoarthritis.
- Lowers your resting heart rate.
- Helps to boost creativity.
- Reduces circulating levels of triglycerides.
- Helps you resist upper respiratory tract infections.
- Increase your anaerobic threshold allowing you to work or exercise longer at a higher level, before significant amount of lactic acid builds up.
- Improves your ability to recover from physical exertion.
- Helps to preserve lean body tissue.
- Helps speed recovery from chemotherapy treatments.
- Increases ability to supply blood to the skin for cooling.
- Increases the thickness of the cartilage in your joints.
- Gives you more energy to meet the demands of daily life, and provide you with a reserve to meet the demands of unexpected emergencies.
- Increases your level of muscular endurance.
- Helps prevent intestinal ulcers.
- Increases the density and breaking strength of ligaments and bones.
- Improves posture.
- Increases your maximal oxygen uptake.
- Helps you to maintain your resting metabolic rate.
- Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer.
- Increases your tissues’ responsiveness to the actions of insulin, which helps to better control blood sugar.
- Helps to relieve constipation.
- Expands blood plasma volume.
- Reduces the risk of developing prostate cancers.
- Helps to combat substance abuse.
- Helps to alleviate depression.
- Increase your ability to adapt to cold environments.
- Helps you maintain proper muscle balance.
- Reduces the rate and severity of medical complications associated with hypertension.
- Helps to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms.
- Lowers your heart rate response to physical exertion.
- Helps to alleviate low back pain.
- Helps to reduce the amount of insulin required to control blood sugar levels in Type 1 diabetics.
- Improves mental alertness.
- Improves respiratory muscle strength and endurance.
- Reduces your risk of having a stroke.
- Helps you to burn excess calories.
- Increases your cardiac reserve.
- Improves coronary (heart) circulation.
- Offsets some of the negative effects of certain antihypertensive drugs.
- Increases your stroke volume.
- Improves your self-esteem.
- Reduces your susceptibility for coronary thrombosis.
- Reduces your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
- Reduces the risk of developing breast cancer.
- Improves mental cognition.
- Maintain or improves join flexibility
- Improves your glucose tolerance.
- Reduces workdays missed due to illness.
- Reduces blood viscosity.
- Enhances your muscle ability to extract oxygen from your blood.
- Increases your productivity at work.
- Reduces your likelihood of developing low back problems.
- Improves your balance and coordination.
- Improves your body’s ability to use fat for energy.
- Provides protection against injury.
- Decreases (by 20 to 30 percent) the need for antihypertensive medication, if you are hypertensive.
- Improves your decision making abilities.
- Helps reduce and prevent the immediate symptoms of menopause.
- Helps to relieve and prevent “migraine headache attacks.”
- Reduces the risk of endometriosis.
- Helps to retard bone loss as you age, thereby reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
- Helps to decrease your appetite.
- Improves pain tolerance and mood if you suffer from osteoarthritis.
- Helps prevent and relieve the stresses that cause carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Makes your heart more efficient.
- Helps to decrease left ventricular hypertrophy in people with hypertension.
- May be protective against the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Improves your mood.
- Helps you to maintain an independent lifestyle.
- Reduces the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Helps to increase your overall health awareness.
- Reduces the level of abdominal obesity – a significant health risk factor.
- Increases the diffusion capacity of the lungs, enhancing the exchange of oxygen from your lungs to your heart.
- Improves heart tolerance
- Improves Your Overall Quality of Life!