1. Improve Balance and Coordination – This builds strong stomach muscles and reduces the risk of falling.
2. Reduce the risk of Heart Disease and Stroke - Physical activity can help prevent heart disease and stroke by strengthening your heart muscle, lowering your blood pressure, raising your high-density lipoprotein (HDL) (good cholesterol) and lowering your low-density lipoprotein (LDL) (bad cholesterol). It improves the blood flow, and increases your heart’s working capacity.
3. Prevent Obesity – Exercising can help reduce body fat and build more muscle in the body. You burn more calories and improve your metabolism. When you combine good nutrition and exercise, you can control your weight.
4. Improve confidence and self esteem – When you exercise, you develop great confidence in yourself and build your self-esteem.
5. Improve your thinking skills – Exercise improves your memory and concentration skills.
6. Stomach and back – Exercising strengthens the stomach and back muscles, which leaves less room for back problems.
7. Improve your quality of sleep – Research has shown that if you exercise, you will go to sleep better, sleep more soundly and feel much better than those who don’t exercise.
8. Better immune system – When you exercise regularly, you can sweat out a lot of the bad toxins in your system and are less likely to get illnesses and infections.
9. Healthy Skin - Exercise provides circulation in the body and sends nutrients to the skin making your skin look wonderful. Having healthy skin is worth the time it takes to exercise.
10. How You Feel About Yourself - How you feel before, during and after you exercise is very important. You can reduce your stress levels and help the anxiety. This will put you in much better moods. When you like the way you feel about yourself, life just seems to fall into place all by itself.
