I’m sure many us know that engaging in regular, consistent exercise benefits us in one way or another.
For instance, I talk a lot on here about the ways that exercise has positive impacts on our lives.
Things like the benefits regular physical activity for your body and the benefits of weightlifting specifically for women.
However, we often overlook the larger aspects of our lives that exercise truly has the power to transform.
Exercise is one of the easiest ways to transform your life in multiple ways. But when most of us talk about exercise, myself included, we only touch base on the surface of the benefits.
And never really focus further on the ways that exercise is truly transformational.
In this post, I want to dive deeper into the idea that exercise is one of the most life changing habits you can develop.
In This Post You’ll Find:
Why The Positive Effects of An Exercise Routine Are so Often Overlooked
With more and more of us living more sedentary lives lately, exercise becomes one thing we tend to overlook.
Think about it, so many of us spend hours and hours a day at work, school, or in our homes sitting down.
And since our daily lives are typically so demanding of us, we usually don’t have the time or energy to add more movement into our day.
But I get it. It can seem impossible to fit another activity into your day, especially when you’re already booked!
All the busyness combined with not knowing the real benefits of exercise, we leave ourselves with little to no motive to workout.
Because of this, starting an exercise routine is likely a thought that won’t often cross your mind. And that’s why it’s so often one of the first things we tend to overlook.
The problem with this is that our bodies are designed to be moving throughout the day, and for most of it.
Activity is in our nature and being active is how we thrive and survive.
Regular Exercise Improves Your Quality of Life (It’s The Key to Self Improvement)
Even though exercise can be overlooked, it’s one of the easiest ways to improve tons and tons of areas of your life.
By doing only one thing. Working out!
And yet still, no matter the reason, so many people choose not to engage in regular exercise.
No matter how busy your life gets, starting a workout routine is one of the best investments you can make in yourself.
Nearly every aspect of your life, can be improved through exercising.
Every workout, you have the power to improve upon almost everything that contributes to living your highest quality life.
Seriously, it’s unreal!
But because fitting a workout routine into your daily schedule can be hard, is why it’s so important to learn how to start a customized workout routine.
One that works for you, is sustainable and achievable, and works with your schedule.
I promise you, doing this is completely worth the time and investment. It’ll be one of the best decisions you make for your future self.
6 Life Changing Effects of Exercise That Transform Your Life
Exercise Improves Your Physical Health
One of the first and most important benefits of exercise is that it improves your physical health.
Preventing and improving issues with our physical health should be a primary goal for everyone out there.
Remember, health is wealth!
Remaining healthy is the key to longevity and happiness. And exercise is an excellent way to help us do that!
Exercise is great for your health because it challenges your body.
It strengthens your immune system and other body systems, increases blood flow, and improves and promotes recovery.
Moving our bodies decreases the risk for so many diseases and health complications. And can even improve any health issues you already have.
Things like cardiovascular issues, weakened immune systems, high blood pressure, obesity, and so much more can be improved and prevented.
In one of the most natural, healthy ways possible.
Physical Activity Improves Your Mental Health
Not only does exercise improve your physical health, but it also plays a huge role in improving your mental health as well.
You might’ve noticed that when you exercise, your mood is improved after your workout.
Well, there’s actually a scientific reason for this.
See, when you workout, your body releases chemicals and hormones that make you feel good.
Serotonin is the primary hormone your body releases during exercise.
And it just happens to be one of the biggest mood-regulating hormones in your body.
It’s responsible for your happiness and any other good feelings you experience.
And since it’s released during exercise, that explains why you feel so good after a workout!
The Impact of Exercise on Mental Disorders
Your hormones play a tremendous role your mental health. One of the biggest, actually.
The more feel-good, happy hormones in your body, the better chance you have at having better mental health.
That’s why exercise one of the quickest ways to instantly boost your mood and reduce negative feelings.
All while leaving you feeling happier and healthier.
So not only does exercise improve your mood, but it also improves your self-esteem.
Increasing your confidence and helping you have a better self-image.
All of this is crucial in improving and preventing mental disorders like anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
Making it easier for you to being more calm, relaxed, and content with yourself and your life.
Consistent Exercise Improves Your Ability to Move
One aspect of our lives that I think a lot of us take for granted is simply our ability to move.
Being able to move our bodies is one of the greatest privileges we have in life.
And exercise is one of the best ways to maintain and improve this privilege.
The more you practice moving your body, the better your body is able to move. In all aspects of your life.
Especially as we age, our mobility and ability to move freely suffers.
As time goes on, we feel like we can no longer move like we used to. For example, you might experience many more aches, pains, and stiffness preventing movement.
What if I told you that to a certain extend, one of the biggest reasons we lose our athleticism as we age is because we stop moving so much.
Meaning that you can avoid losing your mobility and athleticism by adding more movement into your daily life.
And not just avoid losing it, but you can actually improve upon and increase it.
Regular exercise is a tried and true way to improve your flexibility, athleticism, mobility, and muscle, bone, and joint health.
All of this means better and more movement!
Knowing that exercise gives you the power to own one of the greatest privileges of life, wouldn’t you want to engage in it as often as possible?
Exercising Regularly Improves Your Performance And Strength
On top of just improving your ability to move throughout everyday life, exercise is one of the best ways to improve how we move.
One of the keys of exercise is that it’s a way to practice. During every training session, we’re practicing and improving at every activity or exercise that we work on.
Practicing the way our body moves, how it moves, and how well it can perform.
For example, if you incorporate squats into your workout, then every time you do a set of squats, you’re practicing your squat.
With more practice, comes more and better results. Meaning that every time we exercise, everything we train, we’ll continue improving upon.
You’ll start to improve your strength, endurance, flexibility, and overall performance in whatever it is that you do.
Allowing you to lift heavier, run further, sprint faster, jump higher, and so on.
Meaning you can do more, perform better, and be better, just by working out.
Working Out is One of The Best Ways to Improve Your Physical Appearance
One of the most noticeable changes that comes with regular exercise is an improved appearance.
Unfortunately nowadays, so many people are unsatisfied by the way they look.
Whether it be from social media pressure or changes in our lifestyles, feeling unhappy about yourself is normal, but remaining unhappy about yourself is not healthy and no way to live.
Although most of the battle here is mental and results from self-comparison and low self-esteem.
Primarily, it’s something that only you can fix within yourself.
However outside of that, if you’re feeling a normal amount of dissatisfaction with the way you look, exercise is one of the best ways to help you improve that.
Believe it or not, you have the power to almost entirely change the way your body looks, all just from working out!
It helps you tone out, slim down, gain weight, gain muscle and lose stubborn fat, or whatever changes it may be that you want to make to your appearance.
Lifting Weights Can Transform Your Body Composition
For example by lifting weights and building muscle, you can change your body shape, entirely.
In a process know as body recomposition, you can grow the muscles on parts of you you want to grow and shrink them on the parts you don’t.
That’s how so many weightlifting women are able to achieve that hourglass figure that many people strive for.
Weightlifting is a free, natural, healthy way to transform and improve the appearance of your body.
All it takes is some time and energy invested in yourself.
An Exercise Routine Improves Your Mindset and Work Ethic
The final aspect of your life that exercise improves is your mindset and your work ethic.
When you start an exercise routine, if you want to see results, you’re forced to stay committed.
As with making any type of life style change, there are going to be a lot of challenges along the way, and sacrifices you need to make.
One of the biggest challenges with this is overcoming any mental blocks you have holding you back.
Keeping yourself consistent in your workout routine is no easy task. Especially when you feel like you have so many reasons and excuses to quite.
It truly is a mental battle, some times more than others.
But by staying committed you prove to yourself that you’re able to make a promise to yourself, and follow through on it.
You develop discipline even when you have no motivation. You learn how to get done whatever it is that you say you’re going to do.
And most importantly, you gain confidence in yourself. Confidence that you have the strength and ability to stay committed.
Takeaways
Engaging in regular exercise is one of the easiest ways to improve multiple aspects of your life, all at once.
Knowing just how life changing exercise can be is an extremely powerful motive for starting an exercise routine.
Doing this will be one of the best investments you can make in your future self.
Allowing you to improve upon your physical health, mental health, appearance, performance and so much more. During every single workout.
But still, so many people don’t engage in consistent physical activity. That’s why it’s so important to create a workout routine that works for you and you’re schedule.
Before you know it, you’ll set yourself up to have the best chances of living a long, happy, healthy life.
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