7 Great Benefits of Regular Exercise

Synergy Mentor Mike Training

by Synergy Mentors

Exercise is the best way to lose and maintain a healthy weight, and has the added benefit of building strength. There are many health and fitness benefits associated with including improved physiological, metabolic, and psychological parameters. Additionally Individuals who change from a sedentary lifestyle to being physically active, or who change from being physically unfit to physically fit, experience lower rate of disease compared with those who continue to remain sedentary or unfit. 

Here are 7 of our favorite:

1. Exercise increases your basal metabolic rate which results in more calories being expended at rest and during exercise.

2. Muscle require more energy to maintain than fat, so a person who exercises regularly burns more calories while sleeping than someone who never exercises.

3. Muscles become more shapely and defined - many women worry that if they exercise, they will develop muscles like men, but this won't happen because they do not have the same hormones (androgens) that men have.

4. Cardiovascular fitness not only improves the capability of the heart and lungs to pump and oxygenate blood; it also lowers the resting heart rate and blood pressure.

5. Regular exercise helps to lower levels of total cholesterol and increase the ratio of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to low-density cholesterol. In other words, increasing the 'good' form of cholesterol and decreasing the 'bad'.

6. Exercise encourages better insulin sensitivity where by the body releases insulin to counter increases in blood sugar levels releasing insulin. A sedentary lifestyle and eating excessive sugary foods can lead to your body becoming insulin resistant which increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

7. Research has also shown that regular exercise can help give your mood a boost. Recent studies suggest that, whether you lift weights or go for a run, working out can help reduce anxiety and improve overall mental health.

Essentially, exercise ultimately makes us stronger, fitter and more confident. Get Active today with a Free Day Pass from synergyclubs.co.uk