Today we’ll discuss a little about the most important effects of exercise and why it could be an important remedy in your life.
If you are inactive, your body is in a dormant stage. Your strength and endurance are low, your cardiovascular system is weak and your stress level is high, so you lack mental focus. And the two most alarming things for you to know is that you put yourself in jeopardy for many health risks, and your immune system is weakening more and more.
If you can, think back to what it would have been like to live 5,000 years ago, when there was no such things as taking pills every single day. Obesity wasn’t a major contribution to heart disease and other diseases known to mankind today. There weren’t so many cancers and other disorders around. Inhabitants of villages used to do things by hand, they used to walk, they used to lift and push, and they used plants a lot in their daily lives.
Those people back then didn’t have any gyms, or fancy equipment in some fitness facility. In fact, they didn’t even have the knowledge of what exercise and nutrition really was. They just knew they felt good and healthy when they ate certain foods from nature, when they climbed mountains tops, cultivated their farms, walked a few miles a day, ran after savage animals in the wild and so forth.
There is a saying that you have heard before that says “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Hey, my uncle is a medical doctor so I am not against what doctors preach at all. All I am saying is that you need to start engaging in some form of physical activity at least 3 times a week. And there are plenty of ways to get engaged!
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Ibsen Alexandre, Health and Fitness Professional
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