Health Benefits
Exercise can have have many positive affects on your long-term health and well being. The benefits of regular physical activity can include regulating sleep patterns and reducing stress and anxiety while boosting your energy levels.
Weight Loss, Health and More
The first thing that people associate with exercise is weight loss, and that assumption is perfectly correct. When combined with a sensible diet, exercise is an excellent way to promote weight loss and better health. In turn, being a healthy weight reduces the chance of contracting a large number of serious illnesses. But exercise does much more than that and should be an important part of your daily routine regardless of your weight. Being super slim might make you look great on the outside, but you also need to exercise to ensure that your cardio vascular system is healthy and your muscles and bones are strong.
Working out also improves your posture by strengthening the muscles that support you and enable your body to move correctly
Did You Know?
A well designed training program will incorporate exercise that target muscular imbalances that cause lower back, shoulder, hip and knee pain. Which is where a personal trainer can help.
In time, imbalances caused by every day activities such as hunching over a desk or car steering wheel all day, carrying a heavy bag on one shoulder or just wearing high heels for too long can be corrected, reducing or even eliminating pain and discomfort.
A good exercise routine can also greatly improve your overall health and reduce your chances of contracting major illnesses.
In fact according to the NHS, it has been medically proven that people who do regular physical activity (150 minutes a week) have up to a:
• 35% lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke
• 50% lower risk of type 2 diabetes
• 50% lower risk of colon cancer
• 20% lower risk of breast cancer
• 30% lower risk of early death
• 83% lower risk of osteoarthritis
• 68% lower risk of hip fracture
• 30% lower risk of falls (among older adults)
• 35% lower risk of depression
• 30% lower risk of dementia
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