Benefits of Exercise

1. Benefits of Exercise Grade 9-12 Michael Cullen

2. Six Exercise benefits • Improves Mood • Battles chronic disease • Weight Management • Boost energy levels • Promotes better sleep • Fun family experience

3. Improving mood • 30 minute workout after work is a great stress relief. • Stimulates brain chemicals that may help you relax and leave you in a happier mood. • Regular exercise may help prevent depression

4. Battle Chronic disease • Exercise is a great way to help prevent illnesses such as osteoporosis, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. • Type two diabetes can be reduced by exercise. • HDL cholesterol get a boost while decreasing triglycerides. • Reduces the risk of breast cancer and colon cancer.

6. Weight management • Exercise is a great way burn to calories, the higher the intensity the more calories will be burned. • Exercise along with a balanced diet can largely improve the overall quality of life. Calories

7. Need a Boost?? • Committing to an exercise routine won’t make you tired… actually a exercise program will speed up metabolism and challenge your body to create more energy and at the end of the day help get better sleep.

8. Family fun • Exercising isn’t something that has to be done alone. A great way to past the time as well as get in shape is to get the family involved. • This will ensure that every member of the family is getting a workout in. • Gyms offer family plans so a trip to the gym may work out three days a week. • Plan vacations where there is plenty of outdoor adventures to do.

9. Family exercising ideas • Hiking • Biking • Swimming • Roller skating • Rock wall climbing

10. Getting better Sleep • Exercise is a great way to get a quality night sleep. • Exercising will allow your body to fall asleep faster and deepen your sleep for a more peaceful nights rest. • Beware!!! Exercising to close to bed time may actually cause you body to be more alert and not allow yourself to fall asleep.

11. Types of exercises • Strength • Endurance • Flexibility

12. Benefits of Aerobic Exercise • Increased maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max). • Increased blood supply to muscles and ability to use oxygen. • Reduced body fat and improved weight control. • Lower resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure in people with high blood pressure. • Increased threshold for lactic acid accumulation. • Increased blood volume and ability to carry oxygen.

13. Endurance exercise • Exercises for endurance tends to be aerobic ( with Oxygen) • Aerobic exercise develops slow twitch muscles. Performing these exercises strengthens and elongates the muscles for preparation of extended periods of use. • Endurance activities include Biking, Swimming, and Running.

14. Endurance Activities

15. Flexibility • Warm up first warm muscles, tendons, and ligaments are more flexible and stretch more easily stretching cold muscles can cause tears. • Stretches should always be gradual and gentle. • Hold each stretch in a static position for 10 to 20 seconds, allowing the muscle to lengthen slowly. • Do not bounce; bouncing actually causes muscle fibers to shorten, not lengthen. . .

17. Strength training • Build and maintain healthy muscles, bones, and joints. • Reduce depression and anxiety. • Improve psychological well-being. • Enhanced work, recreation, and sport performance. • Reduce high blood pressure or the risk of developing high blood pressure . • Reduce high cholesterol or the risk of developing high cholesterol.

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20. Thank you for you time ! Now get up and get moving !!!!