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The Effects of Exercise on Your Body

Generally speaking, people associate the term "exercise" with "losing weight" and benefits of that nature.  Exercise affects not only the external appearance of a person's body, but the quality of their insides and the strength of some of the vital organs.  

Figures that are lower:

  • Blood Pressure (Long Term)

  • Heart Rate (Long Term)

  • Risk of Heart Disease

  • Risk of Stroke

  • Stress

  • Weight

  • Body Mass Index (BMI)

  • Mean Arterial Pressure

Figures that are higher:

  • Stroke Volume

  • Lung Capacity (Long Term)

  • Endurance (Muscular and Cardiorespiratory)

  • Body Composition

  • Muscular Strength

  • Blood Pressure (Short Term)

  • Heart Rate (Short Term)

  • Breathing Rate (Short Term)

Your heart is a muscle, and as any muscle needs to be strengthened.  Some exercises are specially designed to strengthen one of the most important muscles in your body.  As the heart strengthens it has the ability to push more blood throughout your body in a beat, permitting your heart to not beat as often and consequently your heart rate decrease.

Exercise is an important part of every individual's life, whether you are a child, teenager, adult, athlete or businessman.  To live a full and healthy life, exercise must be a part of it.

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