Benefits of Exercise for Fat Loss

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The benefits of exercise are the closest thing there is to a genuine fountain of youth. Here you see the benefits for health and fat loss.

Let's look at what exercise might do for you.

Health Benefits of Exercise

By 'exercise' we mean a regular program of strength (anaerobic) training, fitness (aerobic) training, and stretching, all of which are presented here on our free website.

Of all the benefits of exercise, none is more important than improved health. (Did you know that DesCartes, the father of modern western philosophy, thought health the greatest good?)

What might be the health benefits for you if you exercise properly? In truth, there are no guarantees about future benefits for you as an individual. None of us can tell what the future will bring.

What you may have, however, are rational expectations concerning your future health.

Proper exercise will increase your cardio respiratory endurance; in other words, it will increase the ability of your heart, lungs, and blood vessels to carry oxygen to your body's cells.

This increased cardiovascular fitness really feels good, too. The psychological benefits of exercise should not be underestimated.

Proper exercise will increase both the strength and endurance of your skeletal muscles, which are important benefits of exercise. Other typical benefits for your muscles are that their shape and, especially for men, their size will improve.

Flexibility Benefits of Exercise

A good exercise program will increase your flexibility, which is the ability of your joints to move freely without discomfort through their full range of motion. In other words, you may be able to increase your flexibility with continued practice.

Furthermore, improved flexibility may provide additional benefits such as making injuries less likely or less harmful.

Moreover, you will be able to maintain flexibility as you age. Decreased risk of injury from falls and other accidents is another the important benefit.

Body Composition Benefits

Fitness exercise speeds up your metabolic rate during exercise and for a short time afterwards.

Moreover, strength exercise results in greater lean muscle mass that speeds up your metabolic rate 24 hours a day.

It's a metabolic furnace!

This explains why permanent fat loss is one of the benefits of exercise.

Since obesity is itself a risk factor for other common diseases such as stroke and cardiovascular disease, reducing body fat is another important health benefit.

Therefore, combined with proper nutrition, exercise decreases body fat. As we explain in the Exercise for Weight Loss section of our website, the greater your lean muscle mass, the more calories you'll be able to ingest without adding fat.

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This will not only ensure that you'll be well nourished, but also that you'll never again need to endure the hunger that comes with going on a starvation diet.

This is really good news if, like us, you enjoy eating.

More Benefits of Exercise

Another benefit is that your improved metabolic rate will give you more energy. Instead of being frequently tired, imagine instead feeling like bouncing around on the balls of your feet!

Proper exercise will reduce or eliminate "sarcopenia," which is the loss of skeletal muscle that otherwise accompanies aging.

Since sarcopenia is caused by disuse, the cure for sarcopenia is to prevent it. Strength training cannot regenerate muscle fibers, but it can increase the strength and size of remaining fibers. So, the muscles we have can get stronger and larger at any age.

Strength training strengthens your tendons (which connect muscle to bone), ligaments (which connect bone to bone), and fascia (which connect muscle to muscle). Since connective tissues are slower to improve than muscles, it's important not to do too much resistance training too quickly.

Strength training also improves the ability of your joints to absorb shocks. It increases the thickness of the hyaline cartilage on joint surfaces. These are some of the unseen, but important, benefits.

Unlike the other kinds of connective tissues, cartilage doesn't have its own blood supply to bring it oxygen and nutrients. Instead, cartilage uses synovial fluid, which is generated by movement.

So exercising properly also benefits your joints; in fact, immobilizing a joint can kill some parts of the cartilage. Helping to keep joints working well is another unseen but important benefit.

Strength training is good for your nerves, too. When you move a muscle against resistance, your brain deploys the relevant motor units.

When you initially begin strength training, your brain's ability to deploy more motor units and to deploy them more efficiently increases. Though unseen, this is one benefit that you will be able to feel.

Another kind of neural adaptation to strength training that occurs is decreased sensitivity to inhibitory mechanisms such as the golgi tendon organs. This is another way that strength training will improve your neuromuscular system.

After two or three months of serious strength training, your bones will begin to become thicker and stronger. Bone remodeling occurs most in response to those exercises, such as squats and deadlifts, that use the most muscle mass.

These are the exercises emphasized in any good serious program of strength training, such as the one presented here at lasting-weight-loss.com. Thicker, stronger bones are another of the important but unseen benefits.

Maximize the Benefits of Exercise

This, too, is a critical part of the program presented here on our website. Our dietary program is designed to work in conjunction with your exercise program.

To learn which foods are best, see our weight loss diet pages:

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It's a practical system that has real-world effectiveness. If you are going to exercise properly, ensure that you gain the most benefit possible from your physical training.

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Once you begin to experience for yourself how good you can feel, you'll never to go back to sedentary ways!

We once saw a chart that listed over 150 benefits of exercise. We hope that we have already reminded you of a sufficient number to motivate you.

In addition to the benefits of exercise, it's important to consider the dangers of exercise, which is the topic of the next page in this section:

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