WHY WE NEED TO EXERCISE DAILY

 

We hear it all the time that you should exercise because it's good for both mental health and physical health. What it does to the human body? A lot of us don’t know that exercise is one of the best ways to reduce stress and increase happiness level and it also lowers the level of sadness and loneliness. Exercise also avoids the disorders of depression and anxiety and may also be as effective as psychiatric and medication therapies in some of the cases. Some studies show that running and walking for a few minutes every day could also decrease major depression issues. It also helps the brain produce chemicals that are responsible for making a person feel happy, also activities like Zomba and Yoga classes are opportunities for social interaction proving to boost modes and decreasing loneliness. When it becomes a habit, self esteem is improved. Exercise helps reduce poor mental health as well. Not just that but it has many other benefits.

Benefits of exercise

Physical benefits

Regular exercise can reduce heart and other cardiovascular diseases. Because when you are doing exercise your body produces heat which makes you feel warmer and your heart starts beating faster pumping blood to muscles. It's great for diabetic Patients as they have too much glucose in their blood and they don’t have enough insulin. Physical activity helps their cells to utilize glucose even when there is no insulin to maintain your Sugar level. It can also improve your memory attention span over time. Physical activity drops the resting heart rate and helps reduce the risk of heart and circulatory diseases. When a person is active the brain produces endorphins, which are the chemicals that alleviates pain and makes a person feel optimistic. It reduces the stress hormones and anxiety as well.

Mental Benefits

 How exercise benefits your brain

Exercise makes a person feel much better and the brain starts functioning at its best and its benefits are far more important than what it does for the body. Nowadays people spend most of their time on the office desk or at their home couch, removing movement from their daily life, which leads them towards one of the biggest threats of being overweight. As per the data gathered by the Health Surveys 10% of the population has type 2 diabetes and another preventable disease that results from inactivity and poor nutrition. Not only this but inactivity is also causing brains to shrink. Now you might be thinking why inactivity is causing the brain to shrink! It is so because if you are not doing anything why do you need a brain? People think the brain is mostly used to generate ideas or analyze environment. But it's not true! Our brain's main purpose is to perform complex motor movements. It isn't a fixed organ. It's adaptable and can change its size like other muscles do in our body. So, the best thing for your brain is the right exercise that is “aerobics”. Weight training still benefits the brain but what you need to do is to maximize your benefit that is to get your heart rate up to 80% of its maximum beat per minute. So that the brain benefits you by improving your ability to learn and absorb new information. Students with higher fitness tend to score high as exercise decreases depression and relieve stress. In women, it helps prevent cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease resulting in fewer mood swings.

Benefits of Exercise for Kids and Youth

You may be already aware of the fact that a physically active child has a healthier heart, bone and muscle health but you might not know that physical activity also enhances brain health of a child! An expert panel of neuroscientists, exercise scientists and disability specialists reviewed that hundreds of studies found out that physically active children have better performance in math, reading science and social studies. These kids also have better attention, focus and level of concentration. They are better creative thinkers and better problem solvers. These active kids have even larger brains especially in the areas of the brain related to memory higher-level thinking and emotion. This leads us to another important benefit of this activity in children in youth. Better mental health active kids have fewer depressive symptoms, feelings of anxiety and overall, they just feel happier. More specifically research suggests that the brain releases these feel-good chemicals when children are getting active. Physical activity is associated with lower stress levels and better resiliency particularly in the teen years, self-esteem, self-concept and self-worth are all improved active kids now.