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100 Ways Exercise will Enrich the Quality of Your Life
"Health Benefits"
Life

     
  1. Increases your self-confidence and self-esteem
  2. Improves your digestion
  3. Helps you sleep better
  4. Gives you more energy
  5. Adds a sparkle and radiance to your complexion
  6. Enhances your immune system
  7. Improves your body shape
  8. Burns up extra calories
  9. Tones and firms up muscles
  10. Provides more muscular definition
  11. Improves circulation and helps reduce blood pressure
  12. Lifts your spirits
  13. Reduces tension and quells stress
  14. Enable you to lost weight and keep it off
  15. Makes you limber
  16. Builds strength
  17. Improves endurance
  18. Increases the lean muscle tissue in your body
  19. Improves your appetite for healthy foods
  20. Alleviates menstrual cramps
  21. Improves muscle chemistry
  22. Increases metabolic rate
  23. Improves coordination and balance
  24. Improves your posture
  25. Eases and can possibly eliminate back problems and pain
  26. Alters how your body uses calories--now more efficiently
  27. Lowers your resting heart rate
  28. Increases muscle size through an increase in muscle fivers
  29. Enables your body to utilize nutrients more efficiently
  30. Improves the body's ability to burn fat
  31. Strengthens your bones
  32. Enhances oxygen transport throughout the body
  33. Improves liver functioning
  34. Strengthens the heart
  35. Improves blood flow through the body
  36. Helps to alleviate varicose veins
  37. Increases maximum cardiac output due to an increase in stroke volume
  38. Increases the weight of the heart
  39. Increases heart size
  40. Improves contractile function of the whole heart
  41. Deters heart disease
  42. Decreases cholesterol
  43. Decreases triglycerides
  44. Increases total hemoglobin
  45. Improves the body's ability to remove lactic acid
  46. Improves the body's ability to decrease heart rate after exercise
  47. Increases the number of open capillaries
  48. Improves blood flow to the active muscles at the peak of training
  49. Enhances the functioning of the cardiovascular system
  50. Enhances the functioning of the respiratory system
  51. Improves efficiency in breathing
  52. Increases lung capacity
  53. Improves bone metabolism
  54. Decreases the chances of osteoporosis
  55. Improves the development of and the strength of connective tissue
 
  1. Increases strength of ligaments
  2. enhances neuromuscular relaxation thus reducing anxiety and tension
  3. Enable you to relax more quickly and completely
  4. Alleviates depression
  5. Enhances clarity of the mind
  6. Improves emotional stability
  7. Makes you feel good
  8. Increases efficiency of you sweat glands
  9. Makes you better able to stay warm in colder environments
  10. Helps you to respond more effectively to heat in that sweating begins at a lower body temperature
  11. Improves your body composition
  12. Increases body density
  13. Decreases fat tissue more easily
  14. Helps you to achieve a more agile body
  15. Increases your positive attitude about yourself and life
  16. Alleviates constipation
  17. Increases the efficiency of utilizing oxygen
  18. Enables you to meet new friends and develop fulfilling relationships
  19. Enable you to socialize while you are getting in shape at the same time
  20. Helps you to move past self-imposed limitations
  21. Gives you a great appreciation for life as a result of feeling better about yourself
  22. Enables you to better enjoy all types of physical activities
  23. Makes the clothes you wear look better on you
  24. Makes it easier to exercise consistently because you like how you look and feel and don't want to lose it
  25. Gives you a greater desire to participate in life 100% and to take more risks as a result of increased confidence and self-esteem
  26. Improves athletic performance
  27. Improves the whole quality of your life
  28. May add a few years to your life
  29. Is the greatest tune-up for the body
  30. Reduces joint discomfort
  31. Increases your range of motion
  32. Gives you a feeling of control or mastery over your life and a belief that you can create any reality you want
  33. Stimulates and improves concentration
  34. Brings color to your cheeks
  35. Decreases appetite when you work out from 20 minutes to one hour before a meal
  36. Gets your mind off irritations
  37. Stimulates a feeling of well-being and accomplishment
  38. Invigorates the body and mind
  39. Is a wonderful way to enjoy nature and the great outdoors
  40. Increases the body's awareness of itself
  41. Reduces or precludes boredom
  42. Increases you ability to solve problems more easily
  43. Gives you a clear perspective on ideas, issues, problems, and challenges
  44. Releases blockages and limitations in thinking
  45. Affords you the opportunity to experience your fullest potential
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