Exercising gives you a boost of energy and decreases blood pressure and heart rate. It enhances your mood, reduces stress, boosts your energy, and improves your sleep quality. Moderate physical activities and exercise improve health in far more ways than just weight management. Opt for a moderate level of physical activity or exercise for at least 30 minutes, five times per week.
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Reduces
blood sugar |
Reduces
blood pressure |
Reduces
depression |
|
Reduces
insulin resistance |
Improves
mood |
Reduces
anxiety |
|
Reduces
risk for diabetes, heart disease and heart attacks by 30-50% |
Reduces
risk for osteoporosis and fractures, cancer and dementia |
Sweating
helps to remove heavy metals, such as cadmium and mercury, from your body |
Benefits of
Strength Training
Include some
form of strength training in your exercise routine to get even more health
benefits. Opt for 15 minutes, 1 to 2 times per week. Increasing muscle mass has
many benefits including:
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Builds
bone density |
Further
loss of visceral fat |
Boosts
energy levels |
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Increases
your strength |
Helps
stabilize hormonal status |
Muscle
burns 5 times more calories than fat even during sleep |
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Contributes
to weight management and normalization of insulin resistance |
Improves
your balance, coordination and posture which decreases risk of injury and
falls later in life |
Fills
out sagging skin after weight loss. Helps to improve muscle tone. |
Benefits
of Jumping
Include motions
that involve axial impact such as lateral jumping, jumping rope, doing
high-impact aerobics, or playing tennis or volleyball. Such activities
introduce stress to the long axis (top to bottom) of the spine, hips and legs
which encourages bone growth and repair and helps prevent osteoporosis, with
sometimes dramatic effects. Benefits begin with efforts as simple as jumping 10
to 20 times twice per day for several weeks.
