"Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live" - Jim Rohn
By Savvvy Team
October 14, 2021
Staying Active Should Not Be A Chore
Did you know that staying active is one of the best ways to stay healthy and improve your quality of life?
Physically and mentally! You don’t say? I'm sure you already knew this.
Whether you are looking to amp up your sex drive or just be a little less moody in your life, we sometimes find ourselves struggling to stay active.
Knowing the reasons why you should stay active will help motivate you to get going.
Here are 11 reason why you should choose to stay active so you can stay feeling good, looking good, and living good!
This article will go over :
How exercise may improve your sex life
How exercise may lower your blood pressure if it's high
How exercise can improve your mood overall
Exercises that can manage your weight
Sleep better by exercising
How exercise may increase your life span
1. Improves Your Mood
According to Betterhealth.vic.gov.au "Exercise reduces immune system chemicals that can make depression worse.
Exercise increases your level of endorphins, which are natural mood lifters."
Exercise is a great way to stablize and improve your mood
Increases your energy level
Distract you from your worries and distractions
Significance improvement in the foods you eat which provides you energy
Increases your confidence
Helps you avoid negative influences such as alcohol and drugs
2. Manage your weight
Exercise can increase metabolism, or how many calories you burn in a day.
It can also help you maintain and increase lean body mass, which also helps increase number of calories you burn each day.
Depending on the different types of exercise you do can determine how many calories you burn.
Here are some activities that will help you burn calories.
Walking, biking, or jogging
Cleaning your home or car
Playing a sport
Yoga
Cardio
Swimming
Cycle Classes
Jumping Rope
Kickboxing
Stairs
Dancing
Hula Hoop
3. Improves Your Sex Life
Sexual activity in itself can feel like an exercises in itself — and can be especially of you are holding some impressive positions.
Getting in shape for a better sex life will not make it easier for you and your partner but also make it more enjoyable!
According to a meta-analysis , nearly 400 men involved in the studies indicated that aerobic training was effective in treating erectile dysfunction.
If you are already exercising, you may find that the additional items on this list work hand in hand.
However, there are other types of exercising that can help improve sexual dysfunction.
Adding one or more of these exercises may help improve stamina and sensation:
Kegal Improving sexual function
Squats Leg burning positions in the bedroom
Frog Jump Build powerful, strong, and maximum fast movements
Planks Help hold those unstable positions
Bridge Helps you thrust longer and harder
Pushups Maintain upper body strength
4. Reduces Health Risk
You know exercise is good for you, but do you know how good?
If the above reason was not motivation enough let's talk about how it may reduce health risk associated with excessive weight gain or to combat health conditions.
Below are some of the many benefits you can improve you health risk by implementing exercise in your daily or weekly routine:
Decreases risk injury
Strengthens heart and improves heart circulation
Improves muscles strength and bone density
Boost endurance
Controls weight
Helps prevent or manage stroke, Type 2 Diabetes, high-blood pressure, many types of cancers, falls, and other health problems and concern.
5. Strengthen Bones & Muscles
Exercise has its benefits, but without the parts of your body that helps you move throughout the day then the rest of this list is meaningless.
Let's look at exercises that can help strengthen your bones and muscles.
When you are physically active you strengthen your bones and muscles. Here are weight-bearing exercises and strength-training that can help:
Weight-bearing exercises
Walking and running
Jogging and hiking
Sports
Climbing stairs
Jump rope
Dancing
However, people with fragile or who have been diagnose with thinning bones may want to consult with their doctors on which actives would work best for them.
Strength-training
Free weights
Pushups
Machines with weights
Squats
Planks
Walking lunges
Step-ups
Press-ups
Single-leg Deadlifts
6. Lowers Blood Pressure
Uncontrolled high blood pressure can cause major complications, however, regular physical activity may make your heart stronger!
A heart that is strong can pump more blood with less effort.
As a result, the force on your arteries decreases, lowering your blood pressure.
If you struggle with high blood pressure and you allow it to go on for a longer time uncontrolled the risk for complications is detrimental.
Let's focus on exercise that you can start doing today without needing any machines.
Walking
Jogging
Biking
Hiking
Swimming
7. Increase Chance of Living Longer
Many people ask the question how long should a person work out for it to be considered an effective work out.
According to a study published in the British Journal of Medicine, just 11 mins of exercise e a day is enough to help you live longer!
Being active is one of the best things you can do for yourself. When you exercise, notice how it makes you feel. It may take a while before your body gets used to it.
Your body and mind will thank you everyday.
8. Promotes better sleep
Who does not enjoy a great night sleep?!
Exercise helps by getting your sleep patterns back to normal. We know getting enough sleep can protect the brain from damage but it can also increase sleep quality.
Your exercise can contribute to a restful night sleep, decrease daytime sleepiness, alleviate stress before bedtime, and may help you fall asleep faster.
9. Provides Social Life
Whether you have join a Zumba class or dance class, you have provided yourself a chance to interact with others.
Especially if you participate in team sports or group exercise.
You get together with like-minded people who enjoy what you enjoy doing and can motivate you to push yourself.
This may also help you learn how to adjust to your environment when interacting with others in different groups.
10. Improves Brain Health
Exercise increases your heart rate, which then pumps more oxygen to your the brain and boosts the size of the hippocampus which is the area involved in verbal memory and learning.
In turn, it also promotes brain plasticity by stimulating growth of new connections between cells in many important cortical areas of the brain.
There are so many benefits with exercising that improves the health of your brain.
11.Improves Confidence
Tie in all the reasons why you should stay active from what has been mentioned above and you get a greater level of confidence!
Exercising will improve your body image and your health. What is not to like about that? Spend more time with other confident people who take their health and exercise seriously.
Conclusion
It's important to keep an active lifestyle for yourself. We are certain with the reasons above begin enough to get you motivated to start making those changes starting now.
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