Saturday, March 14, 2009

Three Mental Benefits Of Exercise

By now it's obvious that exercise improves quality of life. There are the physiological benefits like making your heart more efficient and the physical, like becoming lean, losing weight and having defined muscles.

Here are three mental benefits to fitness that would drastically improve your life:

1. Determination. When you plan to reach a goal, plot out the steps necessary and consistently work toward the target, you are learning how to finish what you start and making ideas and desires a reality. Being determined means that you know what you prefer and you would figure out how to acquire it. Employers love this!

2. Time management and organization. Trying to fit a workout session in to an already busy schedule, plus planning the exercises in their proper order, definitely improves time management and organization skills. These traits are useful when you are in school, or when you are taking care of your family. Soon the phrase "I do not have time" would be completely eliminated from your vocabulary.

3. An agile brain. Exercise makes your brain sharp. A healthy, fit brain means you could answer questions more quickly, think clearly and have a better memory. Having a healthy brain is useful no matter what point you are at in life.

Fitness has so many benefits that it's crazy not to exercise. Caring about your own health and wellness is significant. If you do not care about yourself, who would? Exercise shows dramatic improvements in all aspects of life, not just with your physical body.

Exercise!

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