Body
benefits from regular exercise:
- Builds and maintains healthy
muscles, bones, and joints
- Improves muscle tone and strength
- Improves flexibility
- Increases energy
- Increases efficiency of heart and
lungs
- Improves posture
- Improves balance, coordination and agility
- Controls appetite
- Enhances work, recreation, and
sport performance
- Increases endurance
- Boosts immune system function
- Increases metabolism
- Decreases pain
- Reduces risk of osteoporosis
- Reduces pain from arthritis
- Reduces risk of premature death
- Reduces risk of developing and/or
dying from heart disease
- Reduces high blood pressure or
the risk of developing high blood pressure
- Reduces high cholesterol or the
risk of developing high cholesterol
- Increases "good" (HDL)
cholesterol
- Reduces risk of developing colon
cancer and breast cancer
- Reduces risk of developing
diabetes
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