Exercise Improves Your Outlook On Life

As we face 2013, let us know more about what exercise can do for us.

Although the effects of exercise are difficult to measure because they are progressive, new discoveries are being made all the time and the prognosis for exercise looks good.

According to Dr. Samuel Fox, former president of the American College of Cardiology, aerobic exercise – the kind that sustains an elevated heart rate for a period of at least 15 minutes – can improve one’s physical health by:

• Increasing the number and size of blood vessels for more efficient circulation.
• Increasing the elasticity of blood vessels, and therefore reducing the chances of their breaking and causing a stroke.
• Increasing the ability of muscles to pick up, carry and use oxygen.
• Increasing the efficiency of the heart by making it able to pump more blood with fewer beats.
• Increasing tolerance to stress by improving outlook on life.
• Decreasing triglycerides and cholesterol levels in the blood, making it harder for fats to collect inside artery walls.
• Decreasing the likelihood of clot formation and resulting heart attack.
• Decreasing blood sugar and the triglycerides that high blood sugar can produce.
• Decreasing obesity and high blood pressure.
• Decreasing the production of adrenaline, too much of which can result in damage to artery walls.

Walking: An Exercise For All Ages.  Walking, without doubt, is easily the easiest and most popular form of exercise.  It is the only exercise that is good for all ages.

In a national survey, reported the U.S. President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the highest percentage of regular walkers (39.4%) for any group was found among men 65 years of age and older.

Unlike tennis, running, skiing, and other activities that have gained great popularity, walking has been widely practiced as a recreational fitness activity throughout recorded history.

Walking today is riding a wave of popularity that draws its strength from its health-giving qualities.

Let’s walk for a healthier life.