Exercise Benefits

Physical Benefits Of Exercise

	Increases weight loss, fat reduction		Fitness level improvements
	Increases muscle toning, muscle shaping		Health level improvements
	Increases body shaping, body sculpting		Increases muscle strength / muscular strength
	Increases energy levels, peak performance		Increases aerobic strength / cardio strength
	Improves posture, bearing, stance		Improves skill and agility
	Tends to delay aging, delays aging process		Daily chores more easily performed
	Increases protection from injuries		Improves flexibility
	Increases stamina and endurance		Improves inner core strength
	Improves muscle balance		Enhances body power and speed
	Proper body weight / body composition		Stronger skeletal system
	Neuromuscular coordination and balance		Look better / look healthier / youthful look
	Increases physical productivity		Conditions digestive, excretory systems
	Stronger resistance to disease		Alleviates many diseases and conditions
	Heart disease risk reduction		Increases HDL cholesterol / good cholesterol
	High blood pressure reduction		Possibility of certain cancers reduced

Mental Benefits Of Exercise

	Mental stress reduction		Induces mental relaxation
	Improves confidence		Improves mental productivity
	Improves concentration		Improves mental sharpness
	Calms a bad temper		Promotes better sleep

Emotional Benefits Of Exercise

	Anxiety reduction		Helps you manage stress better
	Enhances self-image		Improves quality of life
	Enhances a feeling of well being		Enhances more positive focus
	Enhances higher quality of life		Increases outlook on life
	Increases social rewards		Helps you feel better about yourself and life

Often, an important incentive to exercise, when performed correctly, is LOOKING GOOD AND FEELING GOOD!

A very important, often overlooked benefit, is that after a while on an exercise program, many people increase their attention to more healthly activities, including a better diet and decrease their attention to health hindering activities, such as poor diet, smoking, negative thinking. Exercise definitely leads to a healthier, happier lifestyle.

Benefits Of Strength Training

According the American Council On Exercise, strength training benefits include the following:
                  Increases bone strength
                  Increases ligament tensile strength
                  Increases muscle fiber size
                  Increases capillary density increase
                  Increases strength of the muscle contractions
                  Increases tendon tensile strength

Benefits Of Cardiovascular Exercise

According to the ACSM, The American College Of Sports Medicine, the benefits of cardio respiratory exercise include the following*:

                  Adaptive physiologic responses increases
                  Aerobic work capacity increases
                  All-cause mortality reduction
                  Anxiety and depression decreases
                  Blood pressure decreases
                  Body fat stores decreases
                  Capillary density and blood flow to active muscles increases
                  Clinical symptoms of anxiety, tension and depression reduced
                  Decreases resting heart rate
                  HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) increases
                  Health benefits increases
                  Heart volume increases
                  Incidence of some cancers decreases
                  Increase in heart function
                  Lactate threshold increases
                  Lung diffusion capacity increases
                  Maximal ventilation increases
                  Maximum cardiac output increase
                  Maximum oxygen consumption increases
                  Mobilization and utilization of fat increases
                  Mortality in post myocardial infarction patients decreases
                  Reduction in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion
                  Resting and maximum stroke volume increases
                  Total blood volume increases
                  Total cholesterol decreases