Fitness Exercise

Exercise is vital for our body. Today most of us have a standard desk job. We get up in the morning, go to work, sit at a desk for hours, and then go home. We push a cart around a grocery store, collecting our packaged food and paying with the money we earn by sitting at our desk.

Ironically, many people don’t hear from their doctors about the importance of exercise until they land in the hospital and are told to get up and move around as soon as possible. Our bodies don’t function very well without exercise. Let’s look at some of the things that can happen to us as a result of lack of regular exercise.

·       Tissue cells lose their elasticity.

·       Lymph nodes cannot release all their toxins-the lymphatic system doesn’t have a pump like the heart; it uses the body movements to help circulate its fluids.

·       Muscles atrophy.

·       The heart can also lost its strength, causing heart disease and other cardiovascular problems.

·       Hip muscles and joints, through lack of activity, can become more fragile and more prone to breakage.

·       Bones can lose density from lack of rebuilding which is stimulated by exercise; osteoporosis is the result.

Aside from preventing these conditions, exercise can aid your body in many different ways. It can improve your intake of oxygen, which provide a burst of energy and increases your stamina; it helps the body produce new cells; it encourages better circulation; and it prevents many diseases.

Your heart will greatly benefit from exercise. It is a muscle you can exercise just like the rest of the body. When it rest, it requires less work to pump all the blood your circulatory system. Also, exercise will increase your HDL (the good cholesterol) and lower your overall cholesterol.

Obviously, exercise can aid in weight loss and prevent weight gain. Obesity is a simple math problem—we take in more calories than we burn, and thus we gain weight. Once we burn more calories than we are taking in, we lose weight and regulate our metabolism. While you may lose fat, you may still weigh the same as you tone your muscles, and they increase in mass and density. The way your clothes fit is a better indicator than a scale when measuring your weight loss.

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