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What is Important about
Proper Exercise
Proper exercise
is extremely important to a healthy, well-balanced body. So many people are
looking specifically at changing their diet to get more fit, but that is
only half the battle. In order to get the maximum benefits from a healthier
eating lifestyle, a healthier exercise lifestyle needs to be developed and
followed, as well.
Some of the
benefits of proper exercise are:
The benefits of aerobic
exercise
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Strengthens and builds up
our heart muscle and our bones.
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Lessens our body’s fat
store because they are being used to fuel our activity level.
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Increases the level of
oxygen to our lungs and bloodstream. This occurs because, during aerobic
exercise, we breathe more deeply. The more oxygen that reaches the lungs,
the more oxygen that can get into our blood. (Since oxygen is our most
important nutrient, this is a great benefit!)
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We will not become
breathless when doing activities like climbing stairs or walking around a
shopping center. Doing aerobic exercise conditions the lungs so they are
better able to handle everyday activity.
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Increases our immunity to
disease, since it helps to drain the fluids from and circulate the fluids
properly in the lymphatic system.
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Improves the endurance
level of our cardiovascular system.
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Helps to detoxify the skin
due to the promotion of sweating.
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Improves the flexibility
and strength of our muscles throughout the body.
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Decreases our risk for
developing heart disease.
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Lowers the total body
cholesterol level while increase what is called “good cholesterol”, or HDL.
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Decreases our blood
pressure.
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Improves the overall tone
of our body. Aerobic exercise may increase the size of your muscles, your
strength level, and your flexibility level while you are burning away
unwanted fat.
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May help with the
alleviation of stress and improve our overall mood, making us more
productive in our everyday lives.
Aerobic exercise
is a critical element for good health. However, you cannot stop there. For a
well-rounded and proper exercise regime, you need to include some strength
training activities, too.
The benefits of
strength training exercise:
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Increases our body’s
metabolism.
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Helps to intensify our
body’s fat weight loss.
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Gives our body greater
muscle strength, muscle tone and firmness.
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Helps to develop our tendon
and ligament strength.
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Increases our body’s bone
density and strength.
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Boosts our body’s stamina,
energy and endurance.
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Helps increase our body’s
coordination and balance.
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Helps improve our overall
mood and attitude.
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Enhances our mental
functions.
When you combine
these two types of activity with stretching, you are working toward a proper
exercise program. This proper exercise will give you significant weight loss
and muscle toning results!
With aerobic
exercise, you want to warm up with stretching or light walking before you
build up to the higher intensity activities. After a set amount of time, you
want to cool down, again with stretching or light walking. This will allow
your body to do easy transitions from inactivity to activity.
With weight
training exercise, it is also critical that you do a period of warm up and
cool down activity. To warm up, do simple aerobic exercise for 10 minutes or
so, as it will increase the blood flow to your muscles. Doing these warm up
and cool down activities will help reduce the amount of soreness you
experience after exercise and well as preventing strains and injuries.
Proper exercise
helps our bodies in so many ways! The increased activity raises our
metabolism, which allows our bodies to burn fat instead of storing it. This
will help keep weight under control, if the activity level is maintained.
Get up and keep moving to see realize the benefits for yourself.
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