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What a fantastic body God has given to us! Isn't our body just like a temple? The way you go to any shrine and keep it neat and clean, pray for good things in life; doesn't the same thing happen when you look after your body and exercise? Doesn't your body react and experience beautiful changes?
Don't all the eleven systems in your body get incredibly activated during and after exercising? Aren't we like car mechanics? If we don't service our car and maintain it, won't it affect its efficiency and longevity? Won't we see more wear and tear, which means more diseases, flu, etc. in our body? Would you like to learn what happens to our body's systems when we exercise and how it benefits us?
Do you know that the average person loses approximately half a pound of muscle mass every year after 20 due to sarcopenia, which means you lose about 5 pounds by 30 if you don't exercise, especially lift any heavyweight? This process of losing muscles is called sarcopenia.
What if you knew that strength training helps you reverse sarcopenia, which means it prevents the loss of muscles and builds muscle mass! Your muscles get stronger, bigger, stretch more, and perform better in lifting heavy things, too, with speed at home, gym, or during sports. Isn't it essential to have strong muscles as they support the body - stabilize joints, move bones, maintain posture and body temperature, and protect your internal organs?
Do you know that lifting heavy weights slows down the process of bone degeneration called osteoporosis? Weights put pressure on muscles, making them strong enough to pull bones harder than before, causing bones to get stronger. When your muscles are strong, won't they support and protect your joints, so you will you ever have arthritis?
Secondly, the human body generates more testosterone and oestrogen (male and female sex hormones, respectively), strengthening bones and their growth. Aren't women quite vulnerable to osteoporosis post-menopause due to lack of calcium? Oestrogen helps in laying down calcium in the body. However, the post-menopause oestrogen level in women goes down. Strength training, in their case, helps in maintaining that level which keeps bones in good health.
"Our body is what we make it."
As we grow old, don't we lose muscle tissues causing metabolism to slow down? If you have a sedentary lifestyle and don't exercise, your metabolism slows down by about 2% in a decade. In some cases, even 0.5% per annum if someone is very inactive. That's why you find out that when you grow older, you put on weight?
How many of you are aware that actually, muscles are the catalyst in burning fat? More muscles mean; more calorie consumption - in turn, more fat burning. You lose 50-100 calories per day when you put on one pound of muscle on your body; causing an increase in your metabolic rate. So, lose weight by increasing the metabolic rate.
If you service your car engine regularly, will you have breakdowns quite often? Similarly, if you are fit and exercise regularly, your digestive system functions efficiently and effectively as your digestive tract becomes stronger over time. Isn't it great that blood flow to all your muscles increases, and it keeps muscles in the digestive system quite active? Due to a healthy digestive system, food breaks down into all the substrates such as protein, carbs and fat quickly, and it assists in eliminating waste. It allows food to pass quicker all the time, even if you are resting.
https://www.healthspan.co.uk/advice/why-exercise-is-good-for-your-digestive-system
Insulin hormones are generated in our spleen by the pancreas. These hormones regulate sugar in the blood and transport it to the working muscles. When you exercise, you burn glycogen stored in muscles, improving the body's insulin sensitivity. After the workout, muscles extract glucose from the bloodstream to replenish their glycogen level. Once we get quite fit, the body prefers to use fat as an energy source rather than using carbohydrates. So, you prevent type II diabetes.
Would you like to avoid all types of diseases, viruses, flu and live a healthy life? Is there any argument that fit and strong people are more likely to be healthy? Don't they have a stronger immune system that can fight killer viruses and diseases? Weren't there strong and healthy people in the world who recovered from COVID-19 virus quickly compared to those whose immune system was not strong enough to protect them.
White blood cells (WBC) in our body form the immune system. Exercise helps in increasing the number of white blood cells, which prepares you to combat viruses, chemical toxins and infections.
If you exercise regularly, your body develops the ability to reduce inflammation, which will allow the immune system to perform better.
"Exercise is for health, fitness, happiness and shape. Don't realise when it's too late. Take action NOW."
How crucial is it to have an efficient cardiovascular system? Doesn't regular exercise make your heart healthier?
When we engage in cardiovascular exercise, our heart, blood vessels, and lungs have to work harder to supply oxygen to our working muscles. This results in the heart getting more robust and increasing our body's ability to use oxygen. Overall, your body will have a better supply of blood and oxygen.
Oxygen is crucial for the survival of cellular, which is provided by the lungs. Muscles of the lungs get affected as we age, which in turn affects our breathing process. Cardiovascular exercises help strengthen these muscles so that lungs may open adequately to get the maximum amount of oxygen and compress to thrust carbon dioxide out.
Good cholesterol termed as HDL protects the heart from cardiovascular diseases. Exercise helps in increasing the levels of HDL in your body.
Regular exercise not only decreases high-blood pressure but also prevents it. So, would there be any chances of coronary heart disease and hypertension?
As stronger muscles develop functional strength in the body, you accomplish physical tasks with little effort. Doesn't little effort mean lower load on your heart, which means reduced blood pressure and lower resting heart rate? As you already know now that stronger mussels cause faster metabolism - which in turn burns fat faster - meaning your body has to carry less weight, resulting in low blood pressure and low resting heart rate. Isn't it interesting?
Why I call it The Big Boss? Because it has a crucial involvement in our health and well-being. Isn't our brain, nerves, spinal cord part of our CNS (Central Nervous System)? And who controls the body? Isn't it the brain?
Who doesn't want to Boosts Energy & Memory, Prevent Dementia?
Isn't our CNS like an engine of the car? If there is no engine, the car won't run! So, isn't proper functioning of CNS crucial? Do you know that regular exercise helps preserve memory and cognitive skills? Your cognitive functioning improves as exercise delivers more oxygen to the brain. It helps in reasoning abilities, improving reaction time and memory.
As you get in shape, lose weight or build a muscular body, don't you start feeling confident? A sense of achievement infuses higher self-esteem in you. Don't you feel good about yourself when you look in the mirror? Don't you think positive and move with confidence in the society?
"I Don't have to START BEST, but NOW is the BEST time to START."
Improves Fertility level
Do you know that people who exercise and are physically quite active have more sperm in their semen and it is of better quality than that of an average one?
Same is the case in women. Those who are physically very active and indulge in vigorous exercises have better fertility rate and lower miscarriage rate. As their oestrogen level does not drop, their natural lubrication for sexual intercourse doesn't decrease as they age, and pelvic organ doesn't change.
https://greatist.com/grow/reasons-exercise-and-eat-right#9
Have you heard people say that they can't lose weight and get in shape due to genetics, hormones, etc.? They have mood swings, obesity and similar challenges due to hormonal imbalance in their bodies. Is it possible to control these hormones, or do you let hormones control you?
When you exercise, the body produces endorphins (called happy drugs), making you feel good. Your dopamine levels in the brain increase. Exercise reduces stress so as cortisol, your stress hormone. You replace these hormones by endorphins hormones that make you feel relaxed, happy and stress-free. Would there be any possibility of depression? Would there be any mental health issues?
How exciting is it that just 10 seconds of sprinting, HIIT (High-Intensity Interval training) cross trainer workout or jumps can elevate your mood? Higher the intensity of your exercise, higher the hormonal response. Your focus on problems or daily-life challenges shifts to feeling relaxed, which soothes your mind and develops more concentration. You can tackle your challenges with more confidence, and rejuvenated body and mind. You develop lateral thinking and have better ideas. You feel more energetic and enthusiastic in dealing with situations.
Now you know that your endocrine system gets activated because exercise and endocrine glands are forced to produce more hormones. Men have more Testosterones because of HIIT and strength training, and cardiovascular exercises at medium intensity bring the oestrogen (sex hormones) level up in women. In Men, their testosterone level does not decline due to ageing. They have no challenge of erectile dysfunction, they maintain an erection for a more extended period, enjoy orgasm and less time required to achieve another erection. In women, their natural lubrication for sexual intercourse increases so as their libido, which usually decreases due to ageing.
So, aren't you in control of your hormones?
"Most of the people workout on hope, not on results. What about YOU?"
Do you know that ageing causes loss of flexibility in your blood vessels, which means it becomes difficult for the vessels to contract and expand to transport oxygen-rich blood to various parts of the body? Muscles and organs such as brain, heart, liver and lungs function well when receiving oxygen-rich blood. You improve this circulation of blood by exercising due to the increased flexibility of blood vessels. You won't feel out of breath sooner or fatigued. You feel rejuvenated, full of verve and vitality, alert, active and energetic.
When you get fit and healthy, your RQ (Respiratory Quotient) becomes low, which means you consume more oxygen than the Carbon dioxide produced. Your RQ is the ratio of carbon dioxide produced by the body to oxygen consumed by the body. Lower the RQ, more fat you burn.
So, when you go into an anaerobic state which means getting puffed, your RQ goes low - in turn, resting heartrate becomes low. It means that your heart does not have to pump so hard to get enough oxygen to the organs and other parts of your body. More fit you are, better you recover your breath from HIIT or aerobic exercise and switch over to the next exercise faster than an unfit or less fit person.
Telomeres, at a cellular level, protect strands of genetic material in our cells. There are enzymes called telomerase, which help telomeres maintain their length to avoid cellular death. As we age, telomeres shorten, genetic material begins to deteriorate, and the enzymes telomerase become less active, which means the enzymes can't support telomeres to maintain their length.
However, when you exercise the telomerase activity increases, hence, the length of the telomere. Both are essential to slow down the process of ageing. It may result in prolonging your life.
Researches have shown that we lose our aerobic strength by almost 1% per annum. For example, if this loss started at the age of 30, by the time we reach 80, we lose nearly 50% of our maximum aerobic capacity. Now, the good news is that you can compensate for half the loss by exercising regularly, which means you will lose only 25% in those 50 years. So, isn’t it essential to improve aerobic capacity by exercising?
Aren't you just like a car mechanic, when you service your body - meaning exercise “ your body functions at its optimum level? Do you want to live in a body where all the systems are not functioning superbly? Wouldn't you like to live in a body that becomes a fat-burning machine, looks muscular and toned, combats diseases, slows down the ageing process and makes you feel great about yourself?
Wouldn't it be great not to spend the last few years of your life diseased or in a miserable condition? Is the nursing home or being dependent on somebody the only option? Can we think out of the box and imagine a life after the age of 70 where you are still able to do things which you did at 40? Would it be fantastic to worship your body as you worship God, look after it as you look after a temple or a holy book? Don't you get only one life?
"Be the Master of Your Craft and Your Life."
