How can exercise affect your future?
We all know the short-term benefits of exercise – how it helps to increase our mood and energy levels; but have you thought about the long-term benefits?
Prevention is better than cure!
Knowing that you can help prevent an illness or condition before getting it is one of the main benefits of exercise! Keeping active is fantastic for helping to protect you from many conditions and can help you live a healthier lifestyle.
Just 30 minutes of daily exercise coupled with a healthy diet can help prevent Type 2 Diabetes by controlling your weight and your blood sugar levels. You can actually read about a real-life example of this in MyBrio story about Jennie. She was pre-diabetic but managed to put a stop to the condition by exercising with us!
Heart disease can be a big worry! Especially as you get older or it’s hereditary, but exercise is a simple way to help keep it at bay. Working out will up your quantities of “good” cholesterol, which is a great way to keep your heart in good condition and fend off disease.
Exercise not only helps with physical ailments, but it can go some way toward preventing mental health conditions too. Regular exercise releases endorphins and other chemicals into your brain that can lower your risk of dementia and decrease stress, anxiety and depression.
Consistency is key!
No matter how long you exercise for, whether it’s 10 minutes or 30 minutes, keeping this up daily is key to helping you have a healthy lifestyle. Keeping your workouts regular will lead you to your results – but remember to have a day or two rest as well, you don’t want to wear yourself out.
So, while exercise has many obvious short-term benefits, the longer-term effects shouldn’t be forgotten! Working out regularly can help improve your health in a whole manner of ways, so start exercising with us today!
We can help you out with exercising! If you’re struggling with where to start with exercise, or are unsure how to do this without injury click here to find out more about our Exercise Safely programme and for our other programmes here.