Exercise helps you look and feel your best. Health, vitality and long life are desirable goals for everyone, but are not achieved without effort. Because many of the habits of modern life do more to diminish health than to increase it, fitness has to be worked at. Being fit has many advantages.
The benefits of Exercise_________________________
Exercise improves your fitness and well-being in many ways. For example, it:
Reduces stress and tension and aids relaxation.
Increases strength and stamina
Improves sleep
Aids weight loss and control. Studies of obesity show that for most overweight people, exercise is an essential addition to any change in dietary habits.
Improves your respiratory and cardiovascular systems and reduces the risk of heart and arterial disease.
Helps to relieve depression.
Tones your muscles, which improves your appearance.
Improves your concentration, so you perform better at home and at work.
Helps to relieve pain, such as backache and menstrual pain.
Increases body flexibility and helps to delay signs of aging.
Improves general health. People who exercise regularly take fewer days off sick.
Helps you to give up smoking or helps prevent you starting again.
Programs_________________________________
Aerobic exercise is one of the keys to improving and maintaining fitness and well-being.
Running, swimming, and bicycle riding are other forms of keeping fit.
Walking is a good starter for runners and if your current fitness level is low, you would not be able to start on the running program without completing a walking program first.
