Top Ten Reasons to Exercise
10. Exercising is the “Fountain of Youth”… it can reverse the natural decline in metabolism that begins around age thirty. As we enter our 30’s, about ½ pound of muscle is lost each year and replaced by fat. A pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat. Which means…
9. Your body will burn more calories when you’re sitting on your muscular buttocks than if you’re sitting on your “big fat butt”…Muscle is an active tissue that burns 30 to 50 calories per pound at rest each day. A pound of fat only burns three calories per day.
8. Get Fit! Get Happy!…Exercising elevates your mood. Studies have shown that lifting weights provides some of the same benefits as anti-depressant medication but without the side effects (except improved self-esteem and self-confidence.)
7. To keep from saying “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”… Exercising improves
your balance and coordination.
6. If you do fall you’re more likely to get up uninjured…Lifting weights strengthens
muscles and connective tissues, decreasing the likelihood of injury.
5. You did fall and you couldn’t get up…Exercising helps with recovery and rehabilitation. The stronger you are the faster you recover. Pumping iron has also been
shown to help ease the pain of some forms of arthritis… by as much as 40 percent!
4. Your Mom told you to sit up straight…and she would want you to lift weights because it strengthens the abdominal and back muscles that support your spine, which
improves your posture.
3. Someone told you to “break a leg”…Exercising increases bone density and
reduces your risk of developing osteoporosis.
2. You want your heirs to live well on their inheritance… but not any time soon…the Framingham Heart Study, which has followed over 5,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts over four decades (and still going), has shown that people who exercised vigorously for 30 minutes five days per week, lived almost 4 years longer than their peers, with good health in their later years. People who walked 5 days per week added 1.3 to 1.5 years to their lives.
1. It’s never too late to start…See reason #10…Studies on the elderly show weight training causes significant increases in strength, muscle growth, and quality of life, even for people starting to exercise in their 80’s or 90’s. But why wait until you’re 90 to improve your quality of life??? Start today!
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