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AEROBIC ACTIVITY:
Do You Know The 10 Ways That Aerobic Exercise Can Add Years To Your Life?
If you establish a regular routine of aerobic activity, these are some of the changes you can expect:
Improved weight control
Accelerated metabolism
Reduced fatigue for daily activities
Better sleep patterns
Enhanced physical appearance
Improved digestion
Lower cholesterol levels
Finer muscle tone
Improved self-confidence and personal discipline
Reduced risk of heart attack, stroke, and infections
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WEIGHT CONTROL
Aerobic activity is vital to weight control because aerobic exercise can make a weight-reducing diet much more effective and cause it to yield results more quickly. Also, regular aerobic activity can make the effects of a diet last longer. If someone sacrifices for a year to lose 20 pounds and then gets it all back in six months, one of the reasons may be that they don't follow up their diet with a consistent aerobic exercise plan. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for weight control.
ACCELERATED METABOLISM
Aerobic activity greatly increases the rate of metabolism. Metabolism is the production of energy in the body by chemical reactions between oxygen and fats or carbohydrates. If our bodies do not do enough aerobic exercise to use up the carbohydrates in our food, any excess will be stored as fat. During vigorous aerobic activity the body may burn energy more than 20 times as fast as when the body is at rest. Even after the aerobic exercise session has ended, the lungs continue to work hard for a while, and the heart may continue to beat fast for several hours before gradually returning to its normal rate. During all this time of accelerated metabolism the body continues to produce extra energy and reduce excess fat storage. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for accelerated metabolism.
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Reduced Fatigue
Aerobic activity improves cardiovascular health by cleansing the blood vessels of harmful and potentially deadly plaque. It also makes our blood vessels more elastic, reducing the resistance to blood flow and lowering blood pressure. Aerobic exercise can even stimulate the body to grow new blood vessels. Aerobic activity also greatly strengthens the heart so that it can do its work with much less effort. All these healthy effects can dramatically reduce fatigue and greatly improve the quality of life. In many cases aerobic exercise can also save a lot of money by reducing the number expensive visits to the doctor's office and costly medications. And of course, the benefit that transcends material wealth, aerobic activity can prevent and perhaps even reverse heart disease and many other dangerous health conditions. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for cardiovascular health.
Aerobic exercise conditions the body to maximize energy levels. In order to produce energy, the body must produce chemical reactions between oxygen and the nutrients in our food. In North America and in most of the industrialized world the problem is not usually that of not having enough food. We have plenty of that, and we usually eat more than what we need. We have energy problems because our bodies don't absorb enough oxygen to react with the food. The result is that a person constantly feels fatigue even though he may have done nothing all day long. It's not that God hasn't made enough oxygen for us. There's plenty of it out there, and it's all free! Aerobic activity conditions the lungs so that they can absorb more oxygen, and the heart is strengthened so that it can more efficiently carry the oxygen to the cells where the energy is produced. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for reduced fatigue.
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Cardiovascular Health
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Improved Sleep
Aerobic activity greatly enhances sleep and improves sleep patterns. For most people, inactivity causes sleep to be less effective. There are inactive people who sleep 10 hours a night and are listless and unproductive throughout the day. There are also active people who sleep much less than most and yet are very alert and productive all day long because of the effects of aerobic exercise. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for healthy sleep.
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Enhanced Appearance
There is no claim that aerobic activity will make an elderly woman look like a little girl again. But in some cases aerobic exercise can make improvements in a person's appearance, and it can help young people keep their youthful appearance longer. Besides improving a person's physique as it tones and strengthens muscles and bones, aerobic activity can preserve a youthful complexion. In order to conserve the young look, the body must be able produce new cells as quickly as old cells ware out and die. If a person's body is starved of an adequate oxygen supply, besides the many other dangerous issues and conditions, that person's skin may wrinkle and discolor prematurely. Aerobic exercise greatly increases the supply of oxygen to the cells to stimulate their reproduction, keeping skin and other tissues healthy. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for enhanced appearance.
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Healthy Digestion
Aerobic activity is often effective in preventing, relieving and in some cases even reversing harmful digestion conditions. Well-conditioned people tend to produce less acid in their stomach. The peak effects of hyperacidity are reduced, and there is less danger of stomach ulcers. Aerobic activity is also a natural cathartic that aids the digestive muscles in eliminating wastes. A well-conditioned person is rarely irregular. In other words, regular aerobic activity helps you to be regular in other ways, too. And there are also many other benefits aerobic activity for healthy digestion.
Reduced Cholesterol
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Aerobic activity has been proven effective in lowering dangerously high levels of cholesterol in the blood. It has also been proven that aerobic activity can often reverse the damage already caused by high cholesterol levels by cleaning the potentially deadly build up of plaque from the walls of blood vessels. Aerobic activity does not clean out the plaque in the same way that it burns up excess fat. Instead, aerobic activity will stimulate the activity of enzymes that dissolve the build up of excess cholesterol off the walls of the blood vessels and move it to the liver where it can be processed and eliminated. Moderate aerobic activity can prevent plaque buildup, and vigorous aerobic activity can sometimes reverse the damage already caused. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for reduced cholesterol.
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Muscle Tone
Muscle building exercises like push-ups, chin-ups, and weight lifting have their place, but on their own they cannot produce fitness and health because they don’t last long enough to produce a conditioning effect. Muscle building exercises cannot on their own condition the heart, lungs, and blood vessels. But with aerobic activity you get both. Aerobic activity develops all of these vital systems and also has the added benefit of toning up the skeletal muscles in the arms and legs and chest and makes them stronger, leaner, and gives them more endurance. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for muscle tone.
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Disciplined Self-Confidence
The benefits of aerobic activity are not limited to your physical health. They also extend to your character and disposition. It can turn introverts into extroverts and can transform the indecisive into the self-confident. Aerobic activity greatly increases the supply of oxygen to a person's brain, making the mind clearer and decisions easier. Learning and memory are also enhanced. And there are also many other benefits of aerobic activity for disciplined self- confidence.
How does aerobic exercise work? God has designed our bodies to adjust themselves to what is being required of them. If a person’s most vigorous activity is that of lifting food to his mouth, the body will lose strength and tissue because it doesn’t need them. On the other hand, aerobic activity requires the body to exert itself, and the body adjusts itself to the demands being placed upon it by growing more tissue and increasing strength. There are many kinds of aerobic activity: jogging, cycling, swimming, rowing, walking, or just about any kind of aerobic exercise that will make you breathe deeper and make your heart beat faster. These are some of the ways in which aerobic activity will affect you:
Increased oxygen is what aerobic activity is all about. The body needs oxygen for everything. The more oxygen the body gets, the stronger it becomes. An increased oxygen supply stimulates healing, promotes metabolism, improves muscle tone and strength, and increases mental alertness, just to name a few things.
In one short sentence, the goal which I am recommending is to condition yourself until you are able to do vigorous aerobic activity that raises your heart rate to 120 beats per minute for the equivalent of 20 minutes, 3 or more times a week. That is a goal that almost any normal person can achieve, but it takes motivation, commitment and discipline.
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