What are the benefits of Physical exercise?

• Increased energy: The right combination of exercise and nutrition creates an hormonal environment conducive to fat loss, increased muscle strength and increased energy. When your body is working at peak efficiency, your energy levels soar!
  Everyday things become much easier to do.
• Increased Self-Esteem: Gaining control of your body size and weight through fitness is an amazing way to increase self-esteem. You look better and are more confident which empowers you in everything you do. You will find that the self-discipline required and learned through regular exercise spills over into other areas of your life and you will be better able to make other necessary and desireable changes.
• Increase Mental Focus: Did you know that the latest research shows that exercise helps keep the brain sharp well into old age? Anything that involves mental acuity (focus and concentration) is improved. You also stand a much better chance of avoiding such diseases as Alzheimer's and senility.
• Decreased Risk of a Heart Attack: By exercising regularly and making positive changes in your diet, you lower your cholesterol and blood pressure and greatly diminish the chances of having a heart attack.
• Decreased Risk of Osteoporosis: Regular exercise, especially weight-bearing exercise, reduces the risk of osteoporosis, and can even reverse it buy building bone tissue!
• Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer by up to 60% Estradiol and progesterone, two ovarian hormones linked to breast cancer tumor production are lowered in the body by exercise.
  A womans body is most susceptible to these hormones during the time between ovulation and menstruation. Habitual exercise can actually delay ovulation until later in the menstrual cycle. This reduces the time she must fight these hormones.
  Fat has long been known to be a catalyst in the production of estrogen (estradiol). Regular exercise burns body fat and thus decreases the rate of estrogen production.
  So there you have it!... A two pronged, cancer preventing exercise benefit!
• Increased Strength and Stamina: Every physical thing you do becomes easier which is immensely useful in everyday life.
• Reduced Depression: The production of Endorphins (Feel good hormones) is increased through exercise. Nothing improves mood and suppresses depression better than those endorphins.
• Decreased Stress Levels: The worries and stresses of everyday living (commuting, work demands, conflicts etc.) can stick with you long after the work day is done. Exercise right after work is the perfect natural therapy that can change your mood. You'll sleep better too!
• Other benefits are
  Improved digestion.
  Enhances quality of sleep.
  Improves body shape.
  Tones and firms muscles.
  Provides more muscular definition.
  Enables weight loss and keeps it off.
  Improves endurance.
  Burns extra calories.
  Improves circulation and helps reduce blood pressure.
  Increases lean muscle tissue in the body.
  Improves appetite for healthy foods.
  Alters and improves muscle chemistry.
  Enhances coordination and balance.
  Eases and possibly eliminates back problems and pain.
  Makes the body use calories more efficiently.
  Lowers resting heart rate.
  Increases muscle size through an increase in muscle fibers.
  Improves body composition.
  Increases body density.
  Decreases fat tissue more easily.
  Makes body more agile.
  Is the greatest body tune-up.
  Reduces joint discomfort.
  Improves athletic performance.
  Enriches sexuality.
  May add a few years to life.
  Increases your range of motion.
  Enhances immune system.
  Improves glycogen storage.
  Enables the body to utilize energy more efficiently.
  Increases enzymes in the body which burn fat.
  Increases the number and size of mitochondria in muscle cells.
  Enhances oxygen transport throughout the body.
  Improves liver functioning.
  Increases speed of muscle contraction and reaction time.
  Enhances feedback through the nervous system.
  Strengthens the heart.
  Improves blood flow.
  Helps to alleviate varicose veins.
  Increases maximum cardiac output.
  Increases contractility of the heart's ventricles.
  Increases the weight and size of the heart.
  Improves contractile function of the whole heart.
  Makes calcium transport in the heart and body more efficient.