Personal Trainer's
TOP 10 Exercise Benefits
By Will Hales, cPT
By now you've heard about all the amazing benefits of exercise.So when you begin a new exercise program, it's good to keep the benefits of journey in mind at all times, because it increases your persistence and motivation if you know what you're doing! Behold, the following list are just a handful of the benefits routine exercise will give you:
1. LONG LIFE — Research suggests that regular exercise may increase your chances of living to a ripe old age. One twenty year follow-up study showed that exercise reduces the risk of a premature death.
2. BETTER BRAIN - Memory, concentration, decision making and spacial recognition are all improved from routine exercise one study shows. That's because exercise stimulates the formation of new brains cells in the parts of the brain responsible for memory and learning. Yes, exercise is will build and maintain a better brain.
3. ANTIDEPRESSANT - Study after study has shown that exercise promotes mental health and reduces symptoms of depression. The antidepressant effect of regular physical exercise is comparable to the potent antidepressants like Zoloft. It may take at least 30 minutes of exercise a day for at least three to five days a week to significantly improve symptoms of depression.
4. GREAT SEX - It's no secret that men who exercise are at less risk of getting erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence compared with men who do not exercise. In fact, both sexes can benefit from routine exercise because exercise improves muscle tone, strength, cardiovascular circulation and endurance - all useful attributes in the bedroom. If you want to have great sex, it may very well starts at the gym.
5. CARDIO HEALTH - A strong heart may prevent you dying prematurely from American's leading cause of death, heart disease. Cardiovascular exercise works out your heart muscle and makes it stronger, just like any other muscle in your body. In turn, having a strong heart may keep you off the doctors tables.
Characteristic
Ability to take in and use oxygen (VO2 max)
Cardiac output
Stroke volume
Coronary circulation
Diameter of vessels
Resting Heart Rate (RHR)
Blood pressure
Cardiac tissue of left ventricular wall
Size of left ventricle
Contractile state of myocardium (heart muscle)
Plasma volume and total hemoglobin
6. DIABETES PREVENTION - Control and prevention of diabetes through exercise is a great idea. By enlisting the help of a weight loss exercise program coupled with a balanced diet, you can successfully reduce the risk of contracting diabetes by 50-60%.
7. BONE POWER - Can your bones become more powerful? Yes! In fact, regular resistance exercise will increase your bodies power to resist strains, fractures and breaks. You're entire skeleton is reinforced with increased bone matrix and growth making your encounter with the "real world" much less likely to result in injury.
8. BETTER SLEEP - Numerous independent peer-reviewed studies published in recognized medical journals have proven time and time again that exercise promotes sleep. During sleep your body is able to rejuvination, repair and restore it's self. Sleep is a time of great healing. If your body has too much stress exercise will help remove the stress and allow you to sleep more deeply than ever.
9. LOSS WEIGHT - You can exercise regularly to reach and maintain a healthy body weight and body fat percentile. If excess weight is being caused by stress, this stress can lead to over eating causing you to take in more calories per day than you burn. Exercise will reduce stress and offset your caloric intake by burning off 400-500 additional calories per hour of exercise.
10. MUSCLE STRENGTH - Exerise is perhaps best known by it's effects on muscle strength. You can bet that that big buff muscle head you see on the beach knows a thing or two about regular exercise. Resistence training coupled with regular aerboic activity like walking or jogging will increase both your IIA and IIB muscle fibers. This means your speed, power, strength, endurance, flexibility, tone, mass, volume and vasularity of your muscles will all increase!