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Look and Feel Younger With Exercise

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Looking for the Fountain of Youth? Don’t be too disappointed to learn that it doesn’t exist. But there is good news, and a way to restore the beauty and vitality of youth. Exercise is one of the best things you can do to make you look and feel younger.

Staying active is essential to your health, offering benefits for your body and your brain. A combination of cardio and resistance training is the ultimate prescription to energize you and restore your youthful appearance.

Our bodies were made to be active. We are not designed to be sedentary. Even if you are limited in your abilities, keeping your body and mind as active as possible will provide healthy benefits that can last a lifetime.

Sweating may seem un-lady like, but working up a sweat can help you slim down and improve your respiratory, cardio, and circulatory functions. Cardio activities can help you work up a healthy sweat. Some examples include walking, running and playing sports to increase your strength and improve your stamina.

Maintaining an active lifestyle in your thirties will help to keep your muscles stronger and your body more flexible, way on into your fifties and sixties. That doesn’t mean you should stop exercising after 30. Making exercise a vital part of your life will ensure that your body works for you and not against you, as you grow older.

As we age, it is common to lose a small amount of muscle mass. Studies indicate that after the age of 30, people who are inactive can lose 3% to 5% of muscle mass per decade due to age-related sarcopinia. Although common, losing muscle mass means a decrease in strength and stamina. Staying active can offset these alarming statistics; it is the key to sustaining the vitality of youth.

Regular exercise is paramount to keeping your body healthy and strong. Start now and never give up or give in. Your health should be a top priority, so be sure to stick with your exercise routine and not give it up on a whim. There will be challenges and changes in schedules, but if you stay as true to yourself as you do to others, you will be able to meet those challenges and adjust to any changes that get in your way.

If you are already active, then you are on the right track. Not only will you help to maintain your strength and stamina but regular exercise will change the way you feel and look. Exercise is such a benefit to the body that it accentuates your natural beauty and restores the vitality of youth.

Energize with Exercise

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Energize your body, mind and soul by exercising every day. Even when you feel too tired to get moving, motivate yourself to push forward. Our bodies are designed to move! We need to keep moving throughout our lives in order to maintain not only healthy muscles but to keep all of our internal systems in tip top shape as well.

To keep our bodily mechanisms hard at work, we must keep the gears moving. Otherwise our muscles become lax and withered and in turn, our bones suffer the consequences. For instance, when core muscles in the body are not exercised and developed, more stress and strain is put on the back and spine. The same for the knee. Knee injuries that develop into arthritis can be helped dramatically by strengthening the muscles that surround the knee.

We all know that a healthy heart is essential to living well. Daily activity has been proven to strengthen the heart muscles and alleviate stress by helping the body to produce endorphins. Regular cardio exercises combined with strength training provides the best exercise plan.

Exercise is good for the mind and soul as well as the body. It feels great to take a nice walk after a big meal. Not only does the walk help your food to digest, it relieves stress and gives the mind and soul a chance to recharge and reboot.

There are so many benefits to staying active. Just as well, there are serious side effects that can develop when a person chooses a sedentary lifestyle devoid of exercise and activity. Don’t wait for these ailments to steal your zest in life. Go out there and get moving.

You don’t have to join a club or do anything fancy to begin exercising. If you are a beginner, start with a 15-minute walk out and 15-minute walk back. That’s an easy 30 minutes of exercising that you can build on day after day. I guarantee you that if you stick with it you will never regret the time you invest in exercise and taking care of your body.