Exercise can help us to increase our longevity, improve health, and decrease our pain and suffering. Proper exercise can improve flexibility, increase strength, and even reduce back pain.
Benefits of Exercise:
- Helps in Strengthening of muscles that support the spine, removing pressure from the spinal discs and facet joints.
- Alleviating stiffness and improving mobility.
- Improving circulation to better distribute nutrients through the body, including to the spinal discs.
Exercise will help us to maintain weight in the short term. But an active lifestyle provides lasting benefits. It can reduce your risk for potential health complications, including:
- high blood pressure.
- diabetes.
- heart disease.
- obesity.
Impact of Daily physical activity:
i)Impact on our mood:Physical activity make people more awake and calmer.
ii)Impact on our stress:Physical exercise can be very effective in relieving stress ,individuals tend to have lower stress who exercise regulary.
iii)Impact on depression and anxiety:Physical activity can reduce levels of anxiety in people.
Types of Exercises:
1.Cardio Training:Cardio training is basically aerobic exercise.This type of exercise make our cardiovascular system strong and efficient.Walking, running, swimming, dancing, playing tennis are all great activities for increasing our heart rate.
2.Resistance Training:This exercise increase muscle strength, mass, and tone.During this type of training, the muscles use up oxygen at a much faster rate at which the body can replace it.
3.Flexibility Training:It Improves overall flexibility, balance, and posture as well as increase the range of movement of our joints.
Exercise fall into 4 basic categories.They are
i)Endurance:Increase your breathing and heart rate. They keep our heart, lungs, and circulatory system healthy and improve your overall fitness.
ii)Strength:Makes our muscles stronger,help us to stay independent and carry out everyday activites.
iii)Balance:Balance exercise helps prevent falls which is common problem in older adults.Lower body strength exercises will improve our balance.
iv)Flexibilty:Flexibilty exercise strectch our muscles and help our body to stay limber.
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