In part one, we covered why you should exercise from the perspectives of the mental benefits of exercise, why exercise helps with fat loss, the importance on muscle and bone, and how it creates more energy. In part two, we are going to go into how it helps with chronic disease, helps with skin, improves brain function, improves sleep, reduces pain, and my favorite, raises your libido.
The way it helps with chronic disease is the ability to be able to get away with more food. When it comes to exercise and building more muscle, it helps to partition excess food into muscle growth. Muscle is expensive to have and helps manage hormones. By building muscle, you will not store fat and raise your metabolic rate. This leads to the best health indicators. As we know, the best indicators for health are based on weight and body percent fat. By exercising we allow ourselves an opportunity to have a lower body percent fat with muscle.
When it comes to skin, it’s all about appropriate exercise. If we are exercising, we are creating free radicals, which can be harmful to the body, but we are also creating more antioxidants. This allows for better skin if exercise is appropriate. Another bi-product that happens is just because we are exercising, we replenish our body with water naturally. Water is a key component of keeping skin healthy. This alone will help out with our skin.
The next thing is brain function. When Steve Jobs would have meetings, they would always be walking meetings because it improved blood flow to the brain. When we improve blood flow to the brain, we also get more oxygen to the brain which in turn allows us to think better. Most of my ideas come while moving. Especially when I am doing my daily exercise routine. When I’m physically active it allows for better brain function. If you work at a desk, I challenge just to do some push-ups and squats to see if it helps add brain clarity to work.
When it comes to improving sleep it all comes down to when you use your energy throughout the day, it makes you recover at the end of the night. Have you ever had a day where you lay down all day and couldn’t sleep at night? This happens because you still have energy stored. Getting rid of our energy storage always helps. It allows for better sleep now that energy has been depleted. From personal experience, I can tell you this makes a huge difference.
The next two are my complete favorite. They are that exercise helps with pain and builds your libido. First, it helps with pain because we are in a world where there is no movement. Our bodies feel pain because of a lack of movement. We are creatures that are meant to constantly move, and purposeful exercise allows our bodies to express that. Just think about how your body feels when you sit down all day at the computer and how it feels when you are just laying down for a long time. It hurts when you get up and you feel stiff. So just by moving we feel better which allows for better decisions. The second one is libido. Libido is a great indicator of health in general. This is because we are made to procreate and advance the species. I have had older clients tell me that after training for a time their sexual energy has increased. This is great because it means that their hormone levels are balancing or raising and, that in turn means that their overall health is increasing.
At the end of the day, resistance train and move for your health.
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