?It is un­for­tu­nate that some peo­ple en­gage in ab­solute­ly no re­al phys­i­cal ex­er­cise. In­stead, their day is spent jump­ing to con­clu­sions, stretch­ing the truth, skip­ping meals, run­ning up debts, push­ing their luck and side­step­ping re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

Ben­e­fits of ex­er­cise

Ex­er­cise of­fers a mil­lion and one ben­e­fits, which you should use to your ad­van­tage. Ma­jor ben­e­fits are:

In­creased Self-Es­teem –It can be pret­ty de­press­ing to be dress­ing for work every morn­ing, and when you gaze in­to your mir­ror, you feel like crap. Seiz­ing con­trol of your body size through ex­er­cise is an amaz­ing way to in­crease self-es­teem. Look­ing bet­ter and feel­ing more con­fi­dent in your­self can em­pow­er you in every­thing you do.

Im­proved Health –A reg­u­lar ex­er­cise pro­gramme can help low­er high blood pres­sure, low­er bad cho­les­terol lev­els, in­crease meta­bol­ic rate, im­prove cir­cu­la­tion, strength­en the heart, in­crease bone den­si­ty, re­duce joint dis­com­fort, re­duce fat lev­els, im­prove mus­cle tone and en­rich sex­u­al­i­ty.

De­creased Stress Lev­els � Stress kills! The wor­ries and stress of every­day liv­ing, such as work de­mands, con­flicts etc, can fol­low you home. Ex­er­cis­ing af­ter a hard day at the of­fice is great ther­a­py that can change your mood.

In­creased Men­tal Fo­cus–Sci­ence has shown that ex­er­cise helps keep the brain sharp; es­pe­cial­ly as you age. Ex­er­cise will help you de­crease the risk of de­vel­op­ing such dis­eases as Alzheimer's and se­nil­i­ty.

Types of Ex­er­cise

You have two op­tions, you can ei­ther go it alone or you can se­cure the ser­vices of a good per­son­al train­er to help you reach your health and fit­ness goals. Let's as­sume that you have de­cid­ed to go it alone. In struc­tur­ing your own pro­gramme, you have got to strike a nice bal­ance be­tween aer­o­bic ac­tiv­i­ties (eg run­ning, bik­ing etc), strength train­ing ac­tiv­i­ties (eg weight train­ing) and dy­nam­ic ac­tiv­i­ties.

Aer­o­bic train­ing � This is nor­mal­ly re­ferred to as car­dio train­ing, be­cause it has such a pos­i­tive im­pact on your car­dio­vas­cu­lar sys­tem. Ex­am­ples are run­ning, bik­ing, swim­ming, etc. Aer­o­bic train­ing is the best type of train­ing for keep­ing your heart, ar­ter­ies and lungs strong, clean and healthy. It al­so helps you to burn body fat and is ide­al for aid­ing in the re­lief of stress. It should be per­formed con­tin­u­ous­ly for about 45 min­utes, four times per week.

Strength Train­ing–This is usu­al­ly per­formed with bar­bells, dumb­bells, ket­tle­bells, etc. Work­ing out with weights has a di­rect ef­fect on your mus­cu­lar sys­tem and it gives you great body shape. Weight train­ing al­so strength­ens your joints, lig­a­ments and ten­dons. In ad­di­tion, it fights off the ef­fects of os­teo­poro­sis and helps to in­crease your me­tab­o­lism.

Dy­nam­ic Train­ing– Dis­ci­plines like karate, kung fu, kick box­ing, etc, of­fer a great com­bi­na­tion of mus­cle ton­ing, awe­some car­dio and flex­i­bil­i­ty. You should al­so at­tempt this on a week­ly ba­sis by cross train­ing. What­ev­er your cho­sen dis­ci­pline, ex­er­cise can give you a strong mind and a healthy body. Keep train­ing.