
Exercise is my favourite Wellness ‘tool’. It has numerous benefits as you can see in the list below. Exercise:
- Increases your confidence and self-esteem.
- Helps you look younger.
- Improves your sleep.
- Releases endorphins (‘happy’ hormones) and improves your mood.
- Improves anxiety and depression.
- Helps you burn fat better.
- Helps reduce your food cravings.
- Lowers your risk of breast and colon cancer.
- Improves your energy.
- Improves resistance to leptin (the hormone that tells your body to eat more).
- Enhances your immunity.
- Increases your metabolism, which helps you burn more calories during exercise and at rest.
- Improves your brain function including learning and memory.
- Helps reduce your risk of dementia.
- Improves your fat to muscle ratio, so you become leaner.
- Lowers your body fat levels.
- Reduces your blood pressure.
- Improves your cholesterol levels and lowers blood triglycerides.
- Improves your insulin sensitivity, so you process sugar more efficiently.
- Helps you live longer.
- Reduces your resting heart rate.
- Reduces the workload on your heart.
- Reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease.
- Increases your blood supply to the brain and muscles.
- Stimulates your bone growth and improves bone strength and density.
- Helps prevent obesity.
- Boosts testosterone (needed by both males and females) production, and increases your sex drive.
- Improves your balance and coordination.
- Improves your flexibility through increased mobility.
- Improves your muscular and cardiovascular endurance.
- Increases your thyroid hormone, which is important for metabolism.
- Improves your strength.
- Gives you stronger ligaments, tendons, and joints.
- Improves your posture.
- Lowers the risk of diabetes.
- Helps manage diabetes.
- Increases your growth hormone levels to help increase muscle.
- Helps prevent muscle loss if you are trying to losing weight.
- Improves your V02 max (a measure of fitness).
- Increases your lung (breathing) capacity.
- Helps soothe the pain from arthritis.
- Increases your pain tolerance.
- Protects you from injury.
- Improves your recovery from injuries.
- Makes you more efficient and productive at work and during other challenging tasks.
- Helps your relationships.
- Is a way to meet people.
- Helps you to become a positive role model.
- Can help you quit smoking and other addictions.
- Improves overall quality of life.