Here’s a question I have been asked from one of you, who has to do a presentation on what the benefits of exercise and healthy eating are, so here is the answer and I am guessing it will be relevant to most of you too!
a. Exercise makes you feel better, by releasing chemicals in your body called endorphins, give you a feel of wellbeing.
b. Exercise strengthens your heart, your body’s most importance muscle, without it being in good health, you wouldn’t be able to do much in life, and a strong heart gives you a much better chance of living a longer and higher quality of life.
c. Exercise helps you reduce body fat and eventually reach a healthy range. This is vital again for health and let your body perform at a good level in everything you do.
d. Exercise helps you fight off serious disease. Diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, arthritis, osteoporosis to name just a few are statistically more like if you don’t exercise and eat healthily.
e. Exercise gives you a sense of self-esteem and self-confidence. Since exercise involves a series of challenges that progressively get harder, the sense of achievement always comes to you, and this gives you much more confidence to achieve other meaningful things in life.
f. Well thought out exercise and stretching will cure a bad back or at least keep pain away. Since 87% of working age individuals get a serious back problems at some time in their lives, chances are you reading this will be able to relate to this particular issue in your life.
g. Most people experience better and more fulfilling relationships from living a healthy lifestyle, with regular exercise and more natural food right at the heart of the effort. If someone doesn’t exercise or eat well, and perhaps drinks more alcohol than recommended, then that person is likely to be out of shape, very irritable, liable to have mood swings daily, and not be that much fun to be around-a disaster for good relationships over the longer term.
h. Exercise gives you a great opportunity to play sports at a better level, and enjoy it more. If you are overweight and really unfit, any sport is likely to be unpleasant and not much fin, probably explaining why sports participation of all ages is declining. Getting fit and healthy will give you great opportunites.
i. Exercise, eating healthy and drinking more water will give you much more concentration for you studies in school and college. Numerous studies have shown that exam and test results can be improved by up to 40% when a much healthier lifestyle is practiced over a typical 12 month period.
j. Those who exercise regularly have been shown to progress more at work. Recent studies show those who exercise regular tend to get more promotion opportunities, are seen as much more dynamic, have more energy and seem to contribute much more to the business they are in.
k. Those who exercise and eat well tend to be more optimistic about their present and future lives. If you having good health results in terms of blood pressure, body fat, heart rate etc, then you tend to look forward to a much higher quality of life than those who constantly struggle with their blood pressure, heart, diabetes etc.
l. Those who exercise tend to be much more active into their later years. Evidence shows that those competing in 10k’s into their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s has almost doubled in the last 10 years. Those in those years who regularly exercised 3 times a week has quadrupled!
