FITNESS BENEFITS

Health benefits of regular physical activity reduces the risk of:

  • Coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease
  • Non-insulin dependant diabetes (type 2)
  • Obesity
  • Oseteoporosis (decreased bone mass density)
  • colon cancer, breast cancer
  • hypertension and stroke

  • High cholesterol or the risk of developing high cholesterol

  • Premature death

  • Cancer

  • Depression and anxiety

  • Abnormal blood lipids

Health benefits of regular physical activity helps:

  • Build and maintain healthy muscles, bones, and joints
  • Enhance overall body tone
  • Increase resistance to mental fatigue
  • Manage stress
  • Reduce anxiety
  • Relieve depression
  • Improve quality sleep
  • Prevent de-conditioning syndrome
  • Increase lifting mechanics
  • Stabilizes blood sugar levels
  • Stabilizes your blood pressure
  • Enhanced work, recreation, and sport performance
  • Decreases stress on bones and joints
  • Decrease chance of injury and disability
  • Increase participation in physical activity
  • Improve psychological well being
  • Increase energy reserve and stamina
  • Decrease injury
  • Increase flexibility, range of motion
  • Lower cholesterol to healthy levels
  • Speed up your metabolism and burns more energy from the food you eat.

Health benefits of regular physical activity creates a positive contribution to:

  • Maintenance of a healthy body weight
  • Psychological well-being
  • Self-efficacy and self esteem
  • Perceived quality of life

Health benefits of aerobic exercise:

  • Increased maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max)

  • Improvement in cardivascular/cardiorespiratory function (heart and lungs)

  • Increased maximal cardiac output (amount of blood pumped every minute)

  • Increased maximal stroke volume (amount of blood pumped with each beat)

  • Increased blood volume and ability to carry oxygen

  • Increased HDL Cholesterol (the good cholesterol)

  • Decreased blood triglycerides

  • Reduced body fat and improved weight control

  • Reduced workload on the heart (myocardial oxygen consumption) for any given submaximal exercise intensity

  • Increased blood supply to muscles and ability to use oxygen

  • Lower heart rate and blood pressure at any level of submaximal exercise

  • Increased threshold for lactic acid accumulation

  • Lower resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure in people with high blood pressure

  • Improved glucose tolerance and reduced insulin resistance

Health benefits of strength and resistance training:

  • Increased muscular strength

  • Increased strength of tendons and ligaments

  • Potentially improves flexibility (range of motion of joints)

  • Reduced body fat and increased lean body mass (muscle mass)

  • Potentially decreases resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure

  • Positive changes in blood cholesterol

  • Improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity

  • Improved strength, balance, and functional ability in older adults

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