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If we just come to know about the benefits of exercise, even if it happens to be a small amount of exercise, especially in this hectic schedule of life, then we will never leave it throughout our life.
Introduction
Exercise involves any bodily activity which can help in the maintenance and enhancement of physical fitness, wellness, and overall health of the body. The need for exercise has arisen especially when common people’s life has become full of frustration and stress owing to their busy and hectic professional world. Thus, exercise can only be the thing that can help in the balance of the professional world and physical fitness.
What are the benefits of exercise?
The benefits of exercise are huge and great in terms of giving strength to the body and making the mind peaceful as well. Apart from developing and strengthening the muscles of the body, exercise is also done for honing athletic skills and developing the cardiovascular system. Many people do exercise for the sake of losing their weight by burning the calories because it has truly helped many people around the world to get rid of obesity which has been a great hurdle in the great health of their body. Exercise does not just enhance the well-being of the people, but it also helps in preventing aging. There are other great benefits of exercise because it can help in warding off various kinds of viruses, managing chronic pain, oxygenating the body, improving memory, increasing sleep quality, boosting the immune system, lowering blood pressure, etc.
Types of exercise
There are generally three groups of physical exercises, and they include aerobic exercise, anaerobic exercise, and flexibility exercise.
Aerobic exercise includes that physical activity which makes the body use more oxygen as compared to the oxygen that the body would need while resting, and this particular exercise uses large muscle groups. Cardiovascular endurance increases with the help of aerobic exercise, and the examples of aerobic exercise are brisk walking, swimming, cycling, running, skipping rope, dancing, playing tennis, running, rowing, long-distance running, continuous training, and hiking.
Anaerobic exercise includes resistance training which can help in increasing and strengthening muscle mass, and it can also help in the improvement of bone density, coordination, and balance. Examples of anaerobic exercise are pull-ups, pushups, bench press, squats, lunges. Other examples of anaerobic exercise are functional training, interval training, eccentric training, weight training, high-intensity interval training, sprinting.
Apart from aerobic and anaerobic exercises, there is flexibility exercise, which includes lengthening and stretching the muscles, which can help in the improvement of joint flexibility, and its goal is also to help reduce the chance of injury of any type.
Public health campaigns
There have been public health campaigns worldwide to give awareness to the people about the importance of health and how they should indulge themselves in one form of the exercise or the other so that they may remain active, agile, and completely fit physically as well as mentally. In many countries, weekly programs are held which take the citizens’ participation to give the message of doing exercise to others as well.
Nutrition with exercise
Having a good diet along with regular exercise makes it very easy for the body to improve the overall health physically and mentally. Proper nutrition is always required in the body so that it becomes responsive to the type of exercise a person gets involved in. Exercise alone will not be sufficient to gain as much strength and agility as a person expects out of it unless there is an environment of nutritious food and a well-planned diet with the exercise.
Final Point
How much you should do the exercise totally depends on the type of goal you have because many people have the goal of becoming wrestlers and many people have the goal of becoming weight lifters while many people just want to remain active and as fit as a fiddle in their life. The duration of the exercise every day doesn’t matter because whether it is for 10 minutes or 30 minutes or one hour, the more continuous the exercise is, the better it would be mentally and physically for every one of you.
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I’m Mohammad Zahid Hussain, a Content Writer, Spoken English, IELTS and PTE Trainer. I’m also a Professional English-Hindi and Hindi-English Translator, Editor and Proofreader. I’m a graduate from Jamia Millia Islamia University, and I’m here to share my articles on a wide range of topics to help you enhance your insights into various things to provide you with factual information and creative analysis.
