20 Reasons why you should stay fit and healthy...

Here are 20 reasons why exercising can affect your health as a positive. For all those people looking for reasons not to exercise here are some reasons WHY YOU SHOULD!!!

Peoples misconceptions towards staying in shape can play a huge part towards the longevity of life. Common arguments are "I'm too cool to go to the gym", "I'm too busy to exercise", "I'm not interested in big muscles", "i enjoy my food to much to worry about my belly". These are only a few quotes people are using to get out of exercising.

Main benefits of exercising are:

• Reduce body weight and the body's overall fat percentage
• Reduce blood pressure to a controllable level
• Improve cardiovascular fitness (stamina)
• Reduce an individuals resting pulse rate
• Improve the body's posture, due to increased muscle tone
• Increase muscular strength
• Improve overall flexibility
• Improve muscular endurance
• More efficient blood circulation
• Speed up the body's metabolic rate (the rate at which the body burns calories)
• Reduce cholesterol levels
• Decrease stress levels
• Speed up the rehabilitation of an injury or muscular imbalance
• Regularise sleeping patterns
• Guard against the onset of coronary artery disease
• Improve self confidence and self-esteem
• Increase in daily energy levels
• Retard the onset of osteoporosis through weight bearing exercise
• Overcome outside stresses and reduce the body's susceptibility to infection or illness
• Last but not lease, exercise can make you feel good. It does this by releasing endorphins, the body's feel-good drugs

So there you go, so many reason why we need to get going and stay in shape. A big high five to everyone that's getting on with it, use this post as a reminder of why you need to keep it up. Spread the word for healthy living and pass on details of my blog to anyone you think could do with a little help.