Exercise is for Life

The Key Is to Find Something You Enjoy Doing and Can Do Consistently

April 26, 2022 156 Views enjoy, fitness, key

Exercise Is for Life

By Drew McConaha

Movement is medicine, and exercise is a vehicle to living a longer, healthier and happier life. Exercise has been shown to improve all areas of our life — mentally, physically, and emotionally. Exercise, especially lifting weights, helps build strength, stronger bones and joints and more importantly, allows us to continue to do all the activities we love well into our later years.

Research on depression and anxiety shows the psychological and physical benefits that exercise can have on improving your mood and reducing anxiety while also decreasing stress and improving your quality of sleep. Exercise can help decrease stress and increase the quality of your sleep. Exercise can help build self-esteem and confidence. It’s amazing how doing something you didn’t think you would ever be capable of will do for your confidence.

I could go on and on about the benefits of exercise. Let’s talk about ways you can get started, be consistent with something you enjoy doing, and be able to do it your entire life. Exercise doesn’t have to be mundane and boring and it doesn’t have to leave your laying in a pool of sweat feeling like someone tried to kill you either. The key to a great exercise routine is to find something you enjoy doing and can do it consistently enough to make it part of your lifestyle…

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