Some of the many reasons for working out...
1. You’ll increase your chances of living longer: “In cultures around the world, daily physical activity is one of the strongest predictors of whether you live well or die young. One large study followed nearly 5,000 U.S adults for five to eight years to test whether daily activity affected their risk of dying during that period. People who got an hour or more of vigerous activity each day were 80 percent less likely to die than the most sedentary participants.” Herman Pontzer in “Burn”
2. Help protect your joints: “Since cartilage isn’t nourished by blood, the best thing you can do is to move around a lot, to keep the cartilage bathed in its own synovial fluid.”
Bill Bryson in “The Body”
3. Improvements in Brain Health:
“Exercise has also been shown to prevent age related cognitive decline by increasing blood flow to the brain, causing increases in the size of the prefrontal cortex and improvements in executive control, memory, and critical thinking.”
Daniel J Levetin in “The Organised Mind”
4. It can improve your mood:
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“Research tells us that exercisers report greater levels of psychological well being than non-exercisers… It may be a particularly potent method for remaining centred because it both distracts us from our worries and floods our bodies with endorphins, our natural feel good hormones.” Rob Yeung in “The Extra One Percent”
5. Become more productive:
“Typically people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with friends and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It’s not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.”
Charles Duhigg in “The Power of Habit”
Final word to Ben Philips in “Transformation”:
“Yes, if the health – enhancing effects of exercise could be put in a pill, it would be the best-selling pharmaceutical there ever was, as well as the safest and most effective.”
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