101 REASONS TO EXERCISE

  1. Helps you to more effectively manage stress

  2. Helps you to lose weight - especially fat
  3. Improves the functioning of your immune system
  4. Reduce medical and healthcare expenses
  5. Reduces your risk of getting heart disease
  6. Increases your level of muscle strength
  7. Improves athletic performance
  8. Can help relieve the pain of tension headache - perhaps the most common type of headache
  9. Allows you to consume greater quantities of food and still maintain caloric balance
  10. Helps you sleep easer and better
  11. Enhance sexual desire, performance and satisfaction
  12. Reduce the risk of developing hypertension (high blood tension)
  13. Increase the density and breaking strength of bones
  14. Improves your physical appearance
  15. Increases circulating levels of HDL (good) cholesterol
  16. Assists in efforts to stop smoking
  17. Helps you to relax
  18. Can help improve short-term memory in older individuals
  19. Helps maintain weight loss - unlike dieting
  20. Helps relieve many of the common discomforts of pregnancy (backache, heartburn, constipation, etc.
  21. Reduces your anxiety leveLHelps control blood pressure in people with hypertension
  22. Protects against "creeping obesity" (the slow, but steady gain that occurs as you age)
  23. Reduces vulnerability to various cardiac dysrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms)
  24. Improves the likelihood of survival from a myocardial infarction (heart attack)
  25. Helps to overcome jet lag
  26. Slows the rate of joint degeneration in people with osteoarthritis
  27. Lowers your resting heart rate
  28. Helps to boost creativity
  29. Reduces circulating levels of triglycerides
  30. Helps to resist upper respiratory tract infections
  31. Increases your anaerobic threshold, allowing you to work or exercise at a higher level, before a significant amount of lactic acid builds up
  32. Helps to preserve lean body tissue
  33. Improves your ability to recover from physical exertion
  34. Helps speed recovery from chemotherapy treatments
  35. Increases ability to supply blood to the skin for cooling
  36. Increases the thickness of the cartilage of your joints
  37. Gives you more energy to meet the demands of daily life, and provides you with the reserves to meet the demands of unexpected emergencies
  38. Increases your level of muscle endurance
  39. Helps prevent intestinal ulcers
  40. Increases the density and breaking strength of ligaments and tendons
  41. Improves posture
  42. Increases your maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max-perhaps the best measure of your physical working capacity)
  43. Helps you to maintain your resting metabolic rate
  44. Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer
  45. Increases your tissues' responsiveness to the actions of insulin (i.e. , improves tissue sensitivity to insulin), which helps to better control blood sugar, particularly if you are Type-2 diabetic
  46. Helps you to relieve constipation
  47. Expands blood plasma volume
  48. Reduces the risk of developing prostate cancer
  49. Helps to combat substance abuse
  50. Helps to alleviate depression.
  51. Helps to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms.
  52. Increases your ability to adapt to cold environments
  53. Reduces the rate and severity of medical complications associated with hypertension.
  54. Help to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms.
  55. Lowers your heart rate response to submaximal physical exertion.
  56. Helps to alleviate low-back pain.
  57. Helps to reduce the amount of insulin required to control blood sugar levels in type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetics.
  58. Improves mental alertness.
  59. Improves respiratory muscle strength and muscle endurance-particularly important for asthmatics.
  60. Reduces your risk of having stroke.
  61. Helps you burn excess calories.
  62. Increases your cardiac reserve.
  63. Good for your heart.
  64. Improves coronary (heart) circulation.
  65. Offsets some of the negative side effects of certain antihypertensive drugs.
  66. Increases your stroke volume (the amount of blood the heart pumps with each beet).
  67. Improves your self-esteem.
  68. Reduces your susceptibility for coronary thrombosis (a clot in an artery that supplies the heart with blood).
  69. Reduces your risk of developing type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes.
  70. Reduces your risk of developing breast cancer.
  71. Improves mental cognition (a short-term effect only).
  72. Maintains or improves joint flexibility.
  73. Improves your glucose tolerance.
  74. Reduces workdays missed due to illness.
  75. Reduces the viscosity of your blood.
  76. Enhances your muscles’ ability to extract oxygen from your blood.
  77. Increases your productivity at work.
  78. Reduces your likelihood of developing low-back problems.
  79. Improves your balance and coordination.
  80. Improves your body’s ability to use fat for energy during physical activity.
  81. Provides protection against injury.
  82. Decreases (by 20 to 30 percent) the need for antihypertensive medication, if you are3 hypertensive.
  83. Improves your decision-making abilities.
  84. Helps reduce and prevent the immediate symptoms of menopause (hot flashes, sleep disturbances, irritability) and decrease the long-term risks of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and obesity.
  85. Helps to relieve and prevent “migraine headache attacks”
  86. Reduces the risk of endometriosis (a common cause of infertility).
  87. Helps to retard bone loss as you age, thereby reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
  88. Helps decrease your appetite (a short-term effect only).
  89. Improves pain tolerance and mood if you suffer from osteoarthritis.
  90. Helps prevent and relieve the stresses that cause carpal tunnel syndrome.
  91. Makes your heart a more efficient pump.
  92. Helps to decrease left ventricular hypertrophy (a thickening of the walls of the left ventricle) in people with hypertension.
  93. May be protective against the development of Alzheimer's disease.
  94. Improves your mood.
  95. Helps to increase your overall health awareness.
  96. Reduces the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.
  97. Helps you to maintain an independent lifestyle.
  98. Reduces the level of abdominal obesity- a significant health-risk factor.
  99. Increases the diffusion capacity of the lungs, enhancing the exchange of oxygen from your lungs to your blood.
  100. Improves heat tolerance.
  101. IMPROVES YOUR OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE!!!!