A balanced diet is essential for a happy and healthy life. But without regular exercise no amount of kale or kidney beans will make up for a lack of locomotion. Just like certain foods protect us from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, regular physical activity has its own list of health enhancement. Without exercise, it’s hard to reach your full physical and mental potential and achieve overall well-being.
Stress, hard work, and lots of thinking create tension in the body, which can lead to chronic aches, tightness, and constipation. Many people try to alleviate these symptoms with alcohol and sugar, which only serve to dampen their unease and anesthetize the body. Exercise is an ideal way of releasing a build-up of physical tension.
Here’s a list of exercise benefits:
• Controls weight
• Lowers blood pressure and arterial stiffness
• Enhances quality of sleep
• Delays loss of muscle mass and strength
• Improves balance and coordination
• Improves flexibility
• Improves digestion transit
• Reduces osteoporosis
• Reduces joint stress and back pain
• Decreases incidence of heart disease
• Reduces existing myocardial damage
• Decreases inflammation
• Improves immune function
• Decreases liver steatosis and fatty liver disease
• Improves insulin sensitivity and reduced risk of type 2 diabetes
• Increases energy and reduces risk of depression, anxiety, and stress
• Improves cognitive function
Developing a regular exercise program to suit your particular body type and lifestyle will have numerous rewards. The challenge is to find the types of exercise you enjoy most, and then build them into your life. It’s important to keep it in mind when it comes to exercise – how much, and which types, will benefit you most? Some people do better with more gentle, centering exercises, while others require vigorous activity.
Experiment with walking, running, biking, swimming, yoga, Pilates, dancing, and simple strength exercises like planks and squats – your options are endless. When you find what works for you, you’ll be more likely to do it consistently and reap the benefits, including increased energy, improved mental clarity, optimal digestive health, and enhanced mood.
Exercise also produces the feel good hormone serotonin, which has an uplifting effect on your entire body. Discover what you love, and stick with it.
What’s the secret to a successful and consistent exercise routine?
Talk about being experimental, here is a short 3 minute exercise video I made for you to try! Let me know how it goes.
And remember, physical activity can take simple and modest forms, like getting off the subway or bus one stop earlier and walking to your destination. It can be taking the stairs, instead of the elevator, to your office or apartment. It can be taking your dog for a walk or your children to the park. A 30-minute brisk walk every day may be all you need to keep yourself in shape.
What will get you moving?
Schedule you FREE health evaluation with Crystal to explore creating your healthiest, happiest, most energetic life – call 602.722.5627, email cjarvie@healthstyles4you.com.
Stress, hard work, and lots of thinking create tension in the body, which can lead to chronic aches, tightness, and constipation. Many people try to alleviate these symptoms with alcohol and sugar, which only serve to dampen their unease and anesthetize the body. Exercise is an ideal way of releasing a build-up of physical tension.
Here’s a list of exercise benefits:
• Controls weight
• Lowers blood pressure and arterial stiffness
• Enhances quality of sleep
• Delays loss of muscle mass and strength
• Improves balance and coordination
• Improves flexibility
• Improves digestion transit
• Reduces osteoporosis
• Reduces joint stress and back pain
• Decreases incidence of heart disease
• Reduces existing myocardial damage
• Decreases inflammation
• Improves immune function
• Decreases liver steatosis and fatty liver disease
• Improves insulin sensitivity and reduced risk of type 2 diabetes
• Increases energy and reduces risk of depression, anxiety, and stress
• Improves cognitive function
Developing a regular exercise program to suit your particular body type and lifestyle will have numerous rewards. The challenge is to find the types of exercise you enjoy most, and then build them into your life. It’s important to keep it in mind when it comes to exercise – how much, and which types, will benefit you most? Some people do better with more gentle, centering exercises, while others require vigorous activity.
Experiment with walking, running, biking, swimming, yoga, Pilates, dancing, and simple strength exercises like planks and squats – your options are endless. When you find what works for you, you’ll be more likely to do it consistently and reap the benefits, including increased energy, improved mental clarity, optimal digestive health, and enhanced mood.
Exercise also produces the feel good hormone serotonin, which has an uplifting effect on your entire body. Discover what you love, and stick with it.
What’s the secret to a successful and consistent exercise routine?
- Accountability! Whether you rely on a friend, family member, trainer, or simply your own willpower to keep you in check, having a goal system to track your progress is crucial. One of the most important components of a successful and consistent exercise routine is accountability.
- Keep note of your exercises, and check in with yourself once a week. Keeping track of your exercise routine allows you to start out slowly and make incremental improvements in very small steps. It means you have a plan for your exercise and holding yourself accountable on days when you’re lacking motivation.
- Honor your great work with self-care – a massage, long walk, or watching your favorite TV show guilt-free during your rest day.
- Acknowledge all the types of exercise you do. Don’t feel like yoga is a work-out? Your body says differently. Feel like you need to run 10 miles to make it count? Actually, less than a mile in, your endorphins are already soaring. Once you find what works for you, and start noticing all the benefits you’re gaining, exercise will be like second nature and your body will thank you for it.
- Be experimental and find a routine you can nourish yourself with on a daily basis.
Talk about being experimental, here is a short 3 minute exercise video I made for you to try! Let me know how it goes.
And remember, physical activity can take simple and modest forms, like getting off the subway or bus one stop earlier and walking to your destination. It can be taking the stairs, instead of the elevator, to your office or apartment. It can be taking your dog for a walk or your children to the park. A 30-minute brisk walk every day may be all you need to keep yourself in shape.
What will get you moving?
Schedule you FREE health evaluation with Crystal to explore creating your healthiest, happiest, most energetic life – call 602.722.5627, email cjarvie@healthstyles4you.com.