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Benefits of Aerobic Exercise

We all know the importance of aerobic exercises. But do we know that aerobic exercises are good for weight control? According to research, regular and intensive physical activity and healthy eating habits can control your weight.

Physical activity plays a great role in controlling weight by using calories that are stored as fat. All your food contains calories just as all the activities you perform. If you follow a regular aerobics program, it will teach you to have a sense of purpose and control to counteract stress, besides relaxing your tense muscles and relieving your body’s response to stress.

Benefits of aerobic exercises:

General:

• With aerobic exercises, your body produces more endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers.
• Your body can take in more oxygen, so you breathe faster and more deeply, giving your blood stream the maximum amount of oxygen.
• The body becomes stronger with a regular program of aerobic exercise.
• Aerobic exercise helps control your hunger better and burns more calories.
• It also burns more fat calories and decreases muscular dependence on sugar.
• It also lowers the incidence of hypoglycemia.
• It helps in bone-building.

Heart:

• It makes your blood pump faster and with more gusto so that it produces more energy and delivers oxygen to all parts of your body and makes your heart beat faster too.
• It increases the diameter of small blood vessels that carry away all waste products and develop muscle to provide more efficient oxygen delivery and waste removal.
• It reduces your risk of getting coronary artery disease and if you have already had one attack, it can prevent the next one; and hypertension and increases the concentration of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and lowers the concentration of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in your blood.
• It helps lower blood sugar and strengthens your heart muscle while also relieving muscular pain and fibromyalgia.

Lungs:

• It helps release heat into the air when you breathe, and so avoids overheating. As you sweat during exercise, you lose heat, water and minerals.

Immunity:

• Aerobic exercises help you live longer and healthier and be disease-free.
• Your chances of developing cancer and type 2 diabetes are greatly reduced s, including breast, colon, prostate and endometrial cancer.
• It also helps in weight control and can raise your immunity to viral infection.

Joints and muscles:

• It keeps your joints, tendons and ligaments flexible making your mobility easier.
• Increase functional capacity during exercise and rest

Blood:

• It also increases your hemoglobin count and your storage of glycogen.

Brain:

• It keeps senility at bay by increasing the delivery of oxygen to the brain

Psychological benefits:

• It is a great mood upper.
• It helps you cope with emotional and psychological stress.
• It also increases your stamina, your sex life and keeps you mobile and active, by improving your cardiovascular health.
• You sleep better and quicker.

Lastly, it helps you live longer and healthier without any major problems.

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