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After smoking, physical inactivity is the single largest health risk factor in the country today. It is the major reason why children's obesity levels are at all-time highs. The percentage of overweight young people has doubled in the he last 30 years. With increasingly tougher academic requirements and with more time spent at a computer than in a gym, growing number of students are becoming "high-tech couch potatoes", says the report from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
As parents, we are concerned about the academic progress of our children. The time is now to reinforce your children's effort and achievement for participating in healthy physical activity. More and more families are becoming aware of the numerous benefits of physical activity. Adults who are physically active are at a lesser risk of dying from heart disease or developing diabetes, colon cancer, and high blood pressure.
Physically fit youngsters enjoy numerous physical, social, and mental benefits These include: reduction of heart-risk factors, increased bone density (reducing the risk of osteoporosis), improved self-confidence, solution to this problem. Become an advocate for your child's physical well being, talk to your children about the importance of physical activity, set an example for your children by being physically active. Encourage your children to participate in physical education classes.
Our primary goal is to help students help themselves. It is important that students take control and responsibility for their lifestyle. Our intent and commitment is to motivate the students to become physically active, more importantly, we want the students to develop an attitude that values participation in meaningful physical activity.
We believe strongly in the student ability to take charge of the health and physical fitness aspects of their life.
100 Ways Exercise will Enrich the Quality of Your Life
"Health Benefits"Life
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- Increases your self-confidence and self-esteem
- Improves your digestion
- Helps you sleep better
- Gives you more energy
- Adds a sparkle and radiance to your complexion
- Enhances your immune system
- Improves your body shape
- Burns up extra calories
- Tones and firms up muscles
- Provides more muscular definition
- Improves circulation and helps reduce blood pressure
- Lifts your spirits
- Reduces tension and quells stress
- Enable you to lost weight and keep it off
- Makes you limber
- Builds strength
- Improves endurance
- Increases the lean muscle tissue in your body
- Improves your appetite for healthy foods
- Alleviates menstrual cramps
- Improves muscle chemistry
- Increases metabolic rate
- Improves coordination and balance
- Improves your posture
- Eases and can possibly eliminate back problems and pain
- Alters how your body uses calories--now more efficiently
- Lowers your resting heart rate
- Increases muscle size through an increase in muscle fivers
- Enables your body to utilize nutrients more efficiently
- Improves the body's ability to burn fat
- Strengthens your bones
- Enhances oxygen transport throughout the body
- Improves liver functioning
- Strengthens the heart
- Improves blood flow through the body
- Helps to alleviate varicose veins
- Increases maximum cardiac output due to an increase in stroke volume
- Increases the weight of the heart
- Increases heart size
- Improves contractile function of the whole heart
- Deters heart disease
- Decreases cholesterol
- Decreases triglycerides
- Increases total hemoglobin
- Improves the body's ability to remove lactic acid
- Improves the body's ability to decrease heart rate after exercise
- Increases the number of open capillaries
- Improves blood flow to the active muscles at the peak of training
- Enhances the functioning of the cardiovascular system
- Enhances the functioning of the respiratory system
- Improves efficiency in breathing
- Increases lung capacity
- Improves bone metabolism
- Decreases the chances of osteoporosis
- Improves the development of and the strength of connective tissue
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- Increases strength of ligaments
- enhances neuromuscular relaxation thus reducing anxiety and tension
- Enable you to relax more quickly and completely
- Alleviates depression
- Enhances clarity of the mind
- Improves emotional stability
- Makes you feel good
- Increases efficiency of you sweat glands
- Makes you better able to stay warm in colder environments
- Helps you to respond more effectively to heat in that sweating begins at a lower body temperature
- Improves your body composition
- Increases body density
- Decreases fat tissue more easily
- Helps you to achieve a more agile body
- Increases your positive attitude about yourself and life
- Alleviates constipation
- Increases the efficiency of utilizing oxygen
- Enables you to meet new friends and develop fulfilling relationships
- Enable you to socialize while you are getting in shape at the same time
- Helps you to move past self-imposed limitations
- Gives you a great appreciation for life as a result of feeling better about yourself
- Enables you to better enjoy all types of physical activities
- Makes the clothes you wear look better on you
- Makes it easier to exercise consistently because you like how you look and feel and don't want to lose it
- Gives you a greater desire to participate in life 100% and to take more risks as a result of increased confidence and self-esteem
- Improves athletic performance
- Improves the whole quality of your life
- May add a few years to your life
- Is the greatest tune-up for the body
- Reduces joint discomfort
- Increases your range of motion
- Gives you a feeling of control or mastery over your life and a belief that you can create any reality you want
- Stimulates and improves concentration
- Brings color to your cheeks
- Decreases appetite when you work out from 20 minutes to one hour before a meal
- Gets your mind off irritations
- Stimulates a feeling of well-being and accomplishment
- Invigorates the body and mind
- Is a wonderful way to enjoy nature and the great outdoors
- Increases the body's awareness of itself
- Reduces or precludes boredom
- Increases you ability to solve problems more easily
- Gives you a clear perspective on ideas, issues, problems, and challenges
- Releases blockages and limitations in thinking
- Affords you the opportunity to experience your fullest potential
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