Benefits of Regular Exercise

While it is obvious that we cannot change that all of us will one day age, it is very much possible to change the pace at which we age. Some people (normally out of ignorance decrease their level of activity as they grow old. They assume this is good for their health. Thus they end up aging ungracefully with greater limitation on their mobility, fitness, self reliance and generally on the quality of life they live .normally, such people end up suffering from age-related problems and complications which may be difficult to reverse.

It can be authoritatively attested that old people who exercise and observe sound nutritional practices live healthier and longer than those who never attempt. For ages, exercise, has been a term only known to the youth echelons. Exercise and fitness programmes have always been disregarded by the elderly as waste of time. However, the truth of the matter is that in order to improve your general health and fitness, there is great need to take up regular physical activity as part of your daily lifestyle.

Regardless of whether one is 18, 40 or 60 regular exercise accords us the same health benefits. The following are some of the benefits of regular exercise;

a) Regular exercise and fitness will help you to improve the variety of movements you can make, increase the lean muscles; strengthen your bones, ligaments, tendons; improve your ability to attend to your daily chores with some degree of reasonable ease; improve the general heath; prevent opportune injuries and sicknesses and also to help speed recovery incase of illness.

b) Regular exercise also helps women in particular to tone, shape up and strengthen their muscle fibres thus minimizing the "build up of fats" with in the muscles that may result in the development of a weak flabby muscle.

c) Regular exercise also makes women and men alike to develop more strength and endurance thus making their daily chores looking relatively easier and thereafter increasing their stamina. Men and women who are used to regular exercise can work for long hours without feeling or developing muscle strain-which in most cases is quite painful

d) It has been objectively proved that aerobic or cardiovascular exercises such as cycling, jogging, walking, running, dancing and step aerobics will improve the effectiveness, efficiency and healthier functioning of the heart and lungs.

e) The most overriding benefit of regular exercise is that it helps to prevent diabetes and other heart diseases. In fact, studies have shown that if a person can exercise regularly for 30 minutes everyday, then their chances of getting heart disease will go down tremendously.

f) Regular exercise will not only aid older people increase lean muscle mass and their overall body strength, but it will also lead to increased metabolic rate leading to high rate of burning fats and consequently leading to increased bone and muscle density and loss of weight-which is the primary objective of most people.

If the irreversible yet undesirable changes that come with growing old are to be counteracted, then some level of fitness and general heath have to be maintained. Again, greater and proper stimulation has to be applied to the whole body.