Health benefits of regular exercise
- Increases physical fitness.
- Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints.
- Builds endurance and muscular strength.
- Helps manage weight.
- Lowers risk factors for cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, and type 2 diabetes.
- Helps control blood pressure.
- Promotes psychological well-being and self-esteem.
- Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety.
Healthy exercise routine
- Engage in at least 30 minutes (adults) or 60 minutes (children) of moderate physical activity daily.
- Maintain or increase physical activity if you are already active.
- Stay active throughout your life.
- Choose physical activities that fit in with your daily routine, or choose recreational or structured exercise programs.
- Always consult your health care provider before starting a new vigorous physical activity plan.
Improve mental health The body and mind are connected and emotions play a big part in determining one's health status. Stress and its negative effect on the immune system remains the major challenge to good health. A healthy lifestyle includes regular exercise that can help you to handle daily stresses, giving you an outlet to release tension. It potentially provides a social outlet, reduce cortisol levels and raise endorphin levels, and more. Some of the tips to improve mental health are as follows:
- Build Confidence by identify your strength and weaknesses together, accept them, build on them and do the best with what you have.
- Involve yourself in community. It gives a sense of purpose and satisfaction.
- Give and accept support to family and friends.
- Accept compliments.
- Learn how to manage stress in every situation.
- Get to know who you are, what makes you really happy and learn to balance what you cannot change about yourselves.
