Exercise is only for FAT people….
This is the biggest misconception that I hear since opening Your Life Fitness. This statement could not me more false! While exercise does burn unwanted calories there are numerous other benefits to exercise. Exercise increases the strength of your cardiovascular system, relieves stress, helps fight off disease, boosts your energy, manage weight and promotes better sleep just to name a few benefits.
Physical activity or exercise stimulates various chemicals in your brain, which will leave you happier and more relaxed than you were before your workout. Many issues can develop from stress such as heart disease, digestive problems, sleep disorders, depression, obesity, etc. Regular exercise will decrease your risk factor.
The benefits of exercise on the cardiovascular system are multi-pronged. Physical activity increases the hearts strength, enhances blood vessel function and promotes the ability of the central nervous system to regulate heart rhythm. Increase heart rate forces the heart to beat faster to keep up the body’s demand for oxygen. Over time the hearts resting pulse rate will decrease; which is an important sign of its strength. The arteries around the heart benefit as well. Regular exercise will help increase flexibility of the vessels reducing stiffness normally associated with aging. The more flexible the muscles the better they are able to dilate lowering the chance of high blood pressure. Heart disease is America’s number one killer. In 2007, 33% of all deaths in Iowa were due to heart disease with over 40,000 hospitalizations for heart disease and 8,500 for stroke. The risk factors of heart disease are controllable and could reduce much of the burden. A more efficient cardiovascular system also leaves you breathing easier.
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