Focusing on fast benefits of exercise helps people start & keep doing it....
Today's Post: Monday, 1-16-2012
Last Friday, HealthDay News had this story: “Need to Exercise More? Think How It Will Help You Now” By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter.
The story was about a University of Michigan study which found that women who exercised based on short term positive quality of life effects worked out 15 percent to 34 percent more often than women who did not.
Long term goals such as slowing aging or losing fat and keeping it off or gradually getting more and more protection for your heart may motivate many to start exercising. These goals may help keep you exercising too.
And, eventually you can see the results for many of these long term goals. The fat and pounds you lost don’t all come back as they did when you lost them without doing exercise. Your HDL cholesterol goes up more each time and your LDL and triglycerides go down. Your blood sugar readings are better. Your blood pressure reading may go down if it was high before.
BUT, to get those results you have to start exercising. You have to do enough exercise and do it enough days each week to be effective. And you have to keep doing it every week!
What this study shows is that the many benefits you notice right away are much more important in helping you do those things than we may have known before.
The good news is exercise DOES give you these immediate benefits!
1. We just posted that even short sessions of vigorous exercise give you almost immediate stress relief.
Regular exercise also increases your ability to withstand stress more and longer before it makes you feel stressed. And you can function better when you are stressed.
Many exercisers notice this even in the first few weeks after they first start exercising.
2. The article said that women in the study found this effect enabled them to be more laid back and in a better mood with their children. Having a better mood and being less irritable also gets better results and gives them a second benefit because their families are then in a better mood too!
3. Almost all people, and especially women, get a strong boost to their self esteem even in the first week or two after they begin exercising.
4. The much better circulation and increased neurotransmitters from vigorous exercise also give you a feeling of mental clarity and effortless energy.
That is very rewarding and can happen the same day you do that kind of exercise even on the first day!
5. For men and for everyone wanting to lose fat or get stronger, it can be quite rewarding to see and feel that your exercise is doing the job!
a) This works great for people new to exercise. You can do a given effort more times or you can use more weight or do the exercise faster almost every week after you start exercising and for several weeks more. (After that, you do have to work a bit more to improve or work at the same level for a bit.)
That’s really fun and enormously motivating! (You do have to start slow and increase slowly enough to avoid injury or burn out to do this. But it is doable.)
b) And, when you do strength training that is working to build you up or do vigorous enough interval cardio, when you are done, you can literally feel the extra blood in the muscles you just exercised. You can often feel the extra circulation when you do either very vigorously just after you finish the exercise.
You can see it too as your whole body will turn pinker from the extra circulation.
6. While it may take a couple of years to lose a lot of fat or make incredible improvements in your heart health blood tests, 80% of the health improvements happen in the first 3 to 6 months! They begin to happen the first week! And you do NOT have to lose more than a bit of your fat or get more than a bit stronger either.
For health, regular exercise gets fast results even on the long term goals!
I once posted that one of the reasons for anyone losing fat to immediately start exercising is that exercise begins to deliver the results people are losing that fat to achieve! They feel better; their self esteem is better; they look happier; and their health improves. And this all happens even well before all the fat they will lose comes off!
In short, when you exercise, you feel better and are easier to be around and become healthier and begin to feel the results right away.
Once you notice these results and see they stop if you skip a few exercise sessions, it also becomes much easier to keep exercising!
Today's Post: Monday, 1-16-2012
Last Friday, HealthDay News had this story: “Need to Exercise More? Think How It Will Help You Now” By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter.
The story was about a University of Michigan study which found that women who exercised based on short term positive quality of life effects worked out 15 percent to 34 percent more often than women who did not.
Long term goals such as slowing aging or losing fat and keeping it off or gradually getting more and more protection for your heart may motivate many to start exercising. These goals may help keep you exercising too.
And, eventually you can see the results for many of these long term goals. The fat and pounds you lost don’t all come back as they did when you lost them without doing exercise. Your HDL cholesterol goes up more each time and your LDL and triglycerides go down. Your blood sugar readings are better. Your blood pressure reading may go down if it was high before.
BUT, to get those results you have to start exercising. You have to do enough exercise and do it enough days each week to be effective. And you have to keep doing it every week!
What this study shows is that the many benefits you notice right away are much more important in helping you do those things than we may have known before.
The good news is exercise DOES give you these immediate benefits!
1. We just posted that even short sessions of vigorous exercise give you almost immediate stress relief.
Regular exercise also increases your ability to withstand stress more and longer before it makes you feel stressed. And you can function better when you are stressed.
Many exercisers notice this even in the first few weeks after they first start exercising.
2. The article said that women in the study found this effect enabled them to be more laid back and in a better mood with their children. Having a better mood and being less irritable also gets better results and gives them a second benefit because their families are then in a better mood too!
3. Almost all people, and especially women, get a strong boost to their self esteem even in the first week or two after they begin exercising.
4. The much better circulation and increased neurotransmitters from vigorous exercise also give you a feeling of mental clarity and effortless energy.
That is very rewarding and can happen the same day you do that kind of exercise even on the first day!
5. For men and for everyone wanting to lose fat or get stronger, it can be quite rewarding to see and feel that your exercise is doing the job!
a) This works great for people new to exercise. You can do a given effort more times or you can use more weight or do the exercise faster almost every week after you start exercising and for several weeks more. (After that, you do have to work a bit more to improve or work at the same level for a bit.)
That’s really fun and enormously motivating! (You do have to start slow and increase slowly enough to avoid injury or burn out to do this. But it is doable.)
b) And, when you do strength training that is working to build you up or do vigorous enough interval cardio, when you are done, you can literally feel the extra blood in the muscles you just exercised. You can often feel the extra circulation when you do either very vigorously just after you finish the exercise.
You can see it too as your whole body will turn pinker from the extra circulation.
6. While it may take a couple of years to lose a lot of fat or make incredible improvements in your heart health blood tests, 80% of the health improvements happen in the first 3 to 6 months! They begin to happen the first week! And you do NOT have to lose more than a bit of your fat or get more than a bit stronger either.
For health, regular exercise gets fast results even on the long term goals!
I once posted that one of the reasons for anyone losing fat to immediately start exercising is that exercise begins to deliver the results people are losing that fat to achieve! They feel better; their self esteem is better; they look happier; and their health improves. And this all happens even well before all the fat they will lose comes off!
In short, when you exercise, you feel better and are easier to be around and become healthier and begin to feel the results right away.
Once you notice these results and see they stop if you skip a few exercise sessions, it also becomes much easier to keep exercising!
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