Healthy Living: How Exercise Works to Improve Your Health
Exercise is a subject that has been beaten to death. But it’s also a very general topic, so it’s easy to see it being taken apart and taken in wild directions without delivering a useful message. You already know it’s right for you and you should probably be more active than you currently are, but we won’t go there. However, what you may benefit from is an overview of how the exercise works…
The basics. You move, you sweat, you burn fat, and you do good things for your body. That’s all in a nutshell. Going a little deeper, exercise is an activity that involves several complex units in your body. Think of the skeletal system; more than 200 bones that give structure to your body. Attached to these bones are muscles, and between them are tendons. Ligaments join the bones together.
To allow any physical movement, it is necessary to activate the muscles. Intracellular reactions that occur in less than a millisecond allow muscles to contract, pulling bones together or pulling them apart. The point of all this has to do with calories or energy expenditure.
The Calories. Exercise burns calories: it is a vehicle to expend energy.
Exercise is the best way to keep your body in good shape, literally and figuratively. Not only does it help control weight, but it also offers a multitude of benefits. Exercise increases your body’s ability to fight and prevent disease – this activity suggests that it has always been a prerequisite for stable health.
Physical aptitude. Generally speaking, physical activity raises your fitness level. Your body, with its flexible nature, becomes stronger and more efficient when its physiological processes are under stress.
Think about how the flow of blood is essential to the functioning of your body. Every tissue and organ requires a sound entry and exit of blood. In simple terms, when blood flow is improved, everything works better. When your heart is stronger, it is more efficient and can supply the various systems in your body with needed oxygen and nutrients. When blood flow is affected, health problems begin to take shape and diseases begin to develop.
Exercise helps improve your fitness and, in turn, your health.
Physical. Exercise plays a direct role in determining your physique. Fortunately, this is all the motivation many people need to stay active.
Stimulating your muscles, especially through resistance training, can improve your physique through muscular adaptation. Weight loss, through caloric expenditure, helps to lose weight. A big reason why we tend to find a slim physique more attractive is that it is related to good health. In other words, good health is ideal and is a byproduct of a physically active lifestyle. Just don’t forget that nutrition is also part of the equation.
Exercise works to improve your health and well-being. It is a tool to improve your life and what you can get from it. It’s worth your time, so never hesitate to make an effort.