Exercise to Make You Younger

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Would you go back? Ditch creams and potions and start sweating for years.
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Sustainable fitness routine powers are impressive: Regular exercise can help you build strong muscles, prevent chronic diseases, and make your clothes fit better. But there is another benefit of physical activity that deserves a shout-out: the path, even in moderation, it does not seem to shave years to your age, no matter how much you actually celebrated birthdays. Of course, you can not change your chronological age, but can exercise your health to the point where you look and feel younger than you improve, says Frank Frisch, PhD, director of kinesiology at Chapman University in Orange, in California. Here are 15 physical and psychological effects of sweat session can your body and brain. Just reading this list you will find motivating, never blow the gym again.

Exercise gives you more force
Training for natural energy drink, so that you feel the release of your brain and body alert and alive. "Exercise makes the body into a state of excitement, which is a vital energy and a greater sense of well-being," Frisch said. "Everyday tasks are less intense and less stress." It is a kind of pep in your step, you feel like you are one or two decades exfoliate.

Exercise jumpstarts your libido
Pot session improves blood circulation throughout the body, including the size, and an additional splash of blood makes you feel more flexible and increase the tension, says Mary Jane Minkin, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine. Also exercise powers of your libido in a psychological nature. "Development brings more confidence in their appearance and body, and that will take you in a sexual thought," says Dr. Minkin. And do not forget all the above suggestions of exercises for the energy you explode to give extra fuel, so you can download the leaves.

Exercise keeps the skin soft and radiant
Brilliant on the cheeks wet with all the sweat does not flow end the only way to fitness keeps your skin young. Researchers at McMaster University in Ontario studied a small group of adults 20-84 of the machine, who were aged over 40 at the age between had skin like a smooth and elastic skin of people aged 20 to 30 years. The difference has nothing to do with sun exposure (fastest with age the skin, as if you do not wear sunscreen), according to the research team; They suggested that the body produces substances that help slow the skin aging process, even if they say more research is needed to learn to exercise change the composition of the movement of the skin.

Exercise improves posture
Due to the loss of muscle mass and bone density changes your attitude takes a beating as you age. For it with strength training, muscle and bone health is building, especially in the core and along the spine, so you get up and shave years of courses to meet your appearance says Amy Hoff, a personal trainer and founder of the fitness Hoff in New York, Development and makes you feel mentally stronger so you bend naturally stop and stand, she adds.

Exercise improves flexibility
Aging is not just your inflexible opinions it makes your muscles and joints more solid and up, allowing you to become tense and precarious. Regular exercise, based procedures especially stretching, such as yoga and Pilates, hold free and flexible, says Hoff. "If a cardio exercise you prefer, you can increase flexibility and Heating Cooling foam roller exercises," she said. This foam is on the nodes of the released tool bar formed in the muscle toughness decrease.

Exercise improves mood
Have you heard of a runner's high and that blessed mood improvement can still sweat heart occur. It seems to come down to endorphins: chemicals of your body cranks system if you are active. "Endorphins that natural opiates," said Eric starlight, Ph.D., associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Chapman. Some data show that gym sessions can changes in other neurotransmitters with pleasant sensations such as dopamine associated lead. And you take confidence will help you feel happier.

Exercise will help you sleep
Quiet sleep like a fountain, and exercise will help you get there. "Studies show that regular exercisers asleep easily and is likely to experience a deep REM sleep," said Frisch. Heart pumping tires are working, of course, but it is more than that. Sleep helps all body systems the optimal function, so you will hardly feel stressed, then toss and turn all night lying. A recent study confirms the conclusion that the preparation is at least 150 minutes of exercise over the quality sleep is improved by 65%.

Exercise keeps your metabolism high
Metabolism naturally slows down with age, so it is difficult to avoid a creep book, as the years pass. Fortunately schedule regular training sessions help you determine the total number of calories you burn, increase to help you keep a stable, healthy weight. You are more calorie burner, if you add strength training to your routine at least once a week, such as working with dumbbells or weight by doing exercises help build muscle mass. "Muscle you have, the more calories you burn," says Starlight. "He's on all day, even after you've stopped exercising."

Exercise slows cell aging
Exercise not only make you feel younger, in fact, you can show the aging process in your chromosomes. This is to ensure chromosomes with telomere caps that control aging. Telomeres shorter telomeres you get older and are associated with longevity. Recent studies have found a link between regular exercise and a lengthening of telomeres, suggesting that exercise can slow the clock, so that you live longer. "Although exercise will not guarantee a long life, it can greatly improve your chances," Frisch said.

Exercise reduces belly fat
How sneak into middle age, fat, used mainly to land, on the hips begin increasingly appears on the belly; This is especially true after menopause. Unlike other areas of fat on the body of this visceral fat is known, the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. He is stubborn, but regular cardio sessions appear to reduce or eliminate. 2011 study from Duke University has shown that cardio exercise can lead to more loss of belly fat workouts that force or a combination of weight training and cardio.

Exercise relieves stress
The long beak or scenic walk you can distract from worries and anxieties. But there may be physiological stress why constructed year. "The release of endorphins caused by exercise relaxes and reduces anxiety," says Zonoozi. In addition to the more meditative forms of exercise like yoga or tai chi, awareness, and body movement. stay in the moment, so that on your breathing and heart rate, more difficult mentally focused stressful monster on the project or the fight you had to do last night with a friend.

Exercise improves memory
Over the years, it is normal to be forgetful. But studies show that you're struggling with the fog of brain fitness. Write the researchers reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2014 that regular aerobic exercise seems to increase the size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with memory. Previous studies have also associated with cognitive abilities of acute exercise. If you have these days highest moments, re elect, still on a treadmill.

Exercise makes your heart more efficient
Like all muscles, the heart becomes weak and flabby from inactivity. Consequently, it has to work to pump blood through the body, accumulating more stress and make you feel tired and breathless easily. Now even the moderate intensity exercise (like a quick 30 minutes walk), you can make your heart stronger, so that pumping oxygen-rich blood better through the system, resulting in less stress says Rhonda Zonoozi physiologist and certified health and wellness coach at the center of the sun wellness for the health and well-being in the state of Arizona.

Exercise protects against heart disease
Heart health benefits of coaching are not everything. Exercise and reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems occurring with ordinary age, are generally, like high blood pressure and high triglycerides, type of fat in the blood that block the artery or cure. As big-time contribution to heart disease, the number one killer of men and women, according to the CDC. "Exercise also increases the level of HDL or good cholesterol, the kind that protects the heart against cardiovascular disease," says Zonoozi.

Exercise improves circulation
When you get older, it is not only the joints, which can be difficult to get the blood vessels in your body can lose its flexibility. This makes it difficult for them to expand and contract as it is necessary for the oxygen-rich blood to supply the body parts that need it the most (such as the brain, heart, and muscles.) And stiffer arteries may increase blood pressure, it is assumed that you heart has to work harder to pump blood through them. Exercise can reduce and improve blood circulation, and some studies show that stretching, even simple, think yoga, Pilates, stretching or moves, can help increase the flexibility of blood vessels.