BENEFITS OF EXERCISE
“Exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic”- Michelle Obama





Whenever we talk about fitness (particularly physical fitness), the very first thing that comes to our minds is exercise. Whether you want to lose weight, go for body toning or body building, or deal with a cardiac condition, physicians always advise you to go for routine exercise. People often feel lazy to follow a daily exercise routine, either don’t have time for exercise or sometimes are quiet impatient to get the results. That’s why it becomes a little difficult for a person to carry out any such physical activity for long. Physiotherapists ask you to add exercise to your lifestyle.  Because we believe that ‘it adds years to life’. We also believe that it’s not only physical body that is benefited by the exercise but the vital organs also gets improved. Exercise provides relaxation and reduced stress, and helps in coping up with a lot of psychological conditions as well. Exercises can be done in many different forms for example, aerobics, yoga, strengthening exercises, flexibility exercises, weight lifting, aqua training, cardiovascular training, sports drills, etc. Ever wondered why is exercise so important? What effects is it causing to our body? What changes will exercise bring to our body? Let’s have a look.

·       Brain

Exercises not only affects your physical body but also enhances the cognitive activities, attention, integration of thoughts and emotions, multi-tasking, problem solving, memory, appetite regulation. It increases the production of neurochemicals that enhances the repair of any damage causing to the brain cells. It improves the memory, and increases the growth of new nerve cells and blood vessels.

·      Heart

Exercises like running, jogging, and treadmill enhances the cardiovascular endurance which helps in coping up with cardiovascular conditions. A heart workout makes it stronger just like other muscles of the body. It pumps out more blood for muscles and fulfills oxygen requirement of the body at work. The high level of adipose tissue in the body causes cardiovascular diseases, exercise cut off the adipose tissue and reduces the chances of development of such disease. It regulates the blood pressure and blood clotting factors as well. There is a reduced stress which some or the other way is connected to the cardiovascular health of a person. The diseases which may occur due to high inactivity are mayocardial infarction, hypertension, arthosclerosis.

·       Bones, joints and muscles

The muscle strength plays a very significant role in carrying out day to day life activities. And becomes more important if you are a sportsperson as higher amount of energy is required to carry out different sports activities. Muscle strength may reduce due to reasons like old age or any trauma. Then there is a need to re-build the muscle strength. Also, if a person has been exercising throughout his life, in old age there is definitely less amount of strength lost and the muscles are stronger than the other people in the same age group. Exercise enhances the muscle strength and flexibility. It helps in maintaining a full range of motion at the joints and makes them more flexible and mobile. Low impact exercises also improves the stability of the joint. This helps in avoiding early degenerative changes in the joint and keeps them protected from arthritis for long. Also, it makes the bones and joints less prone to pain.

·       Lungs

Certain breathing exercises plays a very significant role in improving the compromised breath in persons having cardiorespiratory problems. Also, the exercises helps in flushing out the fluid secretions of the people having cough with sputum. Deep breathing lung exercises improves the breathing pattern of a person.

 ·       Bowel

Lack of physical activity causes constipation, inactivity slows down the digestive system and makes it difficult to pass the stool. When a person exercise more, there is automatically more consumption of fluid due to increased fluid loss and hence, repeated action of the bowel movements occurs.
 
Adding exercise to you day will add health and happiness in your life as the body releases endorphins. It makes you feel energetic, less fatigued and provides more efficiency at work. Exercise changes your mind, mood, and attitude. It is a kind of medication that you need every day. Give yourself a better way of treatment than dozens of pills and surgeries. Add more physical activities to your daily routine. Take out time for your body, mind and soul. Improve your habits improve health.

Take care,

Jasrah.



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