Exercise can help the following:
- Reduce body weight, and the body's overall fat percentage
- Improve cardiovascular fitness (stamina)
- Reduce blood pressure to a controllable level
- Reduce an individual's resting heart rate
- Reduce cholesterol levels
- Speed up the body's metabolic rate (the rate at which our body burns calories )
- Increase muscle strength
- Improved body's posture, through an increase in muscle tone
- Guard against the onset of coronary artery disease
- Decrease stress levels
- Improve self-confidence and self-esteem
- Speed up rehabilitation from injury or muscle imbalance
- Retard the onset of osteoporosis through weight bearing exercise
- Overcome outside stress and reduce the body's susceptibility to infection or illness
- Regularise sleeping patterns
- Develop a more efficient blood circulation system
- Improve muscle endurance
- Improve overall flexibility
- Increase bone density
- Strengthen ligaments and tendons
- Reduce hypertension