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Benefits of Exercise
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Often we take exercise in a wave of enthusiasm and then we
find it difficult to continue which should not be done.
Exercise has much more benefits than we all know. Let's
have a look at them:
- Regular exercise taken properly increases the
digestion of food, which contributes to health and
fitness.
- During first several weeks, the basal
metabolic rate and habitual body temperature will
slowly rise, if the programme is not too hard. The
healthy person usually has abundant body heat and a
warm radiant glow.
- The autonomic and involuntary nervous system
gets balanced due to regular progressive physical
exercise. The tone of the vagus nerve, one of the
nerves that control sensation and motion, is
strengthened. This accounts for stronger pulse waves,
higher metabolism and better circulation.
- Improved capillary action in the working of muscular
and brain tissue results from exercise carried to the
point of real endurance. This permits greater blood
flow and gives the muscles including the heart, more
resistance to fatigue.
- As compared to vigorous exercise, massage,
heat and moderate exercise are relatively ineffective
in producing additional capillary action.
- The full use of the lungs in vigorous exercise can
reduce or prevent lung congestion due to lymph
accumulation.
- Gas and intra-intestinal accumulations can be
reduced by exercise that acts to knead and squeeze or
vibrate the intra-intestinal mass.
- Better respiratory reserve is developed by
persistent exercise. This ensures better breath
holding, especially after a standard exercise. With
greater respiratory reserve, exercise becomes easier.
- Improvement in tone and function of veins can be
accomplished by repetitiously squeezing and draining
the blood out of them and then allowing them to fill.
- Sweating in exercise aids kidneys by helping
to eliminate the waste matter from the body.
- Persistent exercise leads to improvement in
the quality of blood. Studies have shown improved
haemoglobin levels, relatively greater alkali,
improved total protein content and a greater red cell
count.
- By doing some exercise daily, chronic fatigue caused
by poor circulation can be remedied. It also helps relieve
tension and induces sleep.
- Moderate physical exercise at the end of a
hectic day can bring a degree of freshness and renewed
energy. Exercise also plays an important role in the
treatment of depression.
- According to Dr. Robert Brown, a clinical
associate professor at the University of Virginia
School of Medicine, exercise produces chemical and
psychological changes that improve your mental health.
It changes the level of hormones in blood and may
elevate your beta-endorphins.
- Exercise also gives a
feeling of accomplishment and thereby reduces the
sense of helplessness.
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