Last week I shared with you ten suggestions from the Mayo Clinic for overcoming exercise barriers. Today, I share their list of five benefits that accrue from regular exercise:
- Helps prevent disease -- Regular exercise reduces your risk of developing illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, and cancers of the colon, prostate, uterine lining (endometrium) and breast.
- Helps maintain your independence -- Regular exercise improves your balance, which can reduce your chance of falling and help you retain your independence longer.
- Increases life expectancy -- The more active you are, the longer you may live.
- Boosts your immune system -- Researchers have found a link between regular exercise and improved immune function.
- Gives you energy -- Lack of energy is largely a result of inactivity. Endurance exercises improve stamina and energy. After just a few weeks in a walking program, for example, most people find they have more energy.
What's not to like! Perhaps it's time to make the exertion-recovery spectrum a more active part of your everyday life.
Coaching Inquiries: On the continuum between exertion and recovery, where do you fall? Do you suffer more from overtraining or undertraining? How could achieve a better rhythm between the two? What strategies have worked for you in the past? How can you develop more successful strategies today?
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