What comes to your mind when you hear the word "Exercise"? It might be you'll lose weight, right? Yea, but it does much more than that. Exercising every day can have a significant impact on your health, happiness, behavior, sleep, stress, and much more.
Let's talk about a few reasons which can motivate you to exercise regularly:
- Make you feel good all day: Exercising can lift your mood and make you feel happy. During exercise, our body releases endorphins, a hormone which will trigger positive feelings in our body.
- Improves cognitive memory: Research shows that exercising can help improve cognitive memory and function, even in the people who are at high risk from developing Alzheimer's disease. So, exercising is a crucial factor for better brain health.
- Help you to sleep better: People who exercise on a regular basis tend to sleep better. The National Sleep Foundation says that you can reduce the risk of sleep issues like sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome by regular exercising.
- Help you lose weight: This one's a no-brainer, exercising can help you lose weight. How? Exercising increases the metabolism, or the amount of fuel which the body can use, which will help facilitate weight loss.
- Prevents cardiovascular and other chronic illness: Around 8.6 million women die from heart disease worldwide. Exercise can help dramatically reduce heart-related diseases, strengthen muscle and reduce the risk of having a heart attack.
So now that you know exercising has marvelous effects on our body besides weight loss, don't wait! Get up and start living a healthy life right now.