Exercise is could help your physical and mental health. Exercise lets the heart pump lots of blood through your veins. This increases the size of your arteries, prevents fat from clogging your arteries and helps prevent blood clots. Exercise also helps lower your blood pressure. Benefits of exercising are increased bone strength;
Increased motion and flexibility; Improved sense of well being; increased muscle strength; Decreased blood pressure; improved sleeping patterns and levels of anxiety. In addition, this improves a chance of living longer, reduces the risk of heart disease. Aerobic exercises uses, activity of large muscles in the legs and strengthens your heart and lungs. When you exercise, the muscles want more oxygen-good blood and give off more carbon dioxide and other waste. This makes your heart beat faster to keep up. This can lower blood pressure, build stronger bones, improve muscle strength and flexibility, lessen depression and help control your weight. Aerobic exercise includes walking, running, hiking, bicycling, swimming, cross-country skiing, stair climbing, rowing, aerobic dance and many other activities. Anaerobic exercise-means “without air" or "without oxygen." This exercise depends on energy not oxygen that is stored in muscle. Some example of this are Heavy weight lifting, sprints (running, biking, etc.), jumping rope, hill climbing. Some benefits to this are Development of stronger muscles. If you are new to exercise, do not start with high activity. Beginners should start at about 50% and increase from there. Does a 5-10 minute warm up before starting any anaerobic exercise, and a 5-10 minute cool down after your workout session. Some other exercises are Yoga and Pilate's. Yoga is a system of health and total well-being for the body. It includes things from physical postures to healthy diets and hygiene. Like all exercises it does something for you, it stretches the body and strengthens. By moving in various postures, twisting, bending, and flexing, you clean your organs with oxygenated blood and prank. Yoga is not a commutative sport. It calms you and unstressed you out. The starting position for Yoga is the sit, this starting point helps you focus on breathing and it threatens your back. Another posture for Yoga is the Cat and Dog, this increases flexibility in the back. Beginning on your hands and knees, you arch your back to flex, and that is one of the many yoga positions. Remember exercise comes in many ways to do it so find one way you like and start now to get a fit and healthy body you want!
Kids exercise all the time without even thinking of it. Just being active, like when you run around outside or play kickball at school, is a kind of exercise. What else counts as exercise? Playing sports, dancing, doing push-ups, and even reaching down to touch your toes.
When you exercise, you're helping build a strong body that will be able to move around and do all the stuff you need it to do. Try to be active every day and your body will thank you later!
Exercise Makes Your Heart Happy
You may know that your heart is a muscle. It works hard, pumping blood every day of your life. You can help this important muscle get stronger by doing aerobic (say: air-o-bik) exercise.
Aerobic means "with air," so aerobic exercise is a kind of activity that requires oxygen. When you breathe, you take in oxygen, and, if you're doing aerobic exercise, you may notice you're breathing faster than normal. Aerobic activity can get your heart pumping, make you sweaty, and quicken your breathing.
When your give your heart this kind of workout on a regular basis, your heart will get even better at its main job - delivering oxygen (in the form of oxygen-carrying blood cells) to all parts of your body.
So you want to do some aerobic exercise right now? Try swimming, basketball, ice or roller hockey, jogging (or walking quickly), in-line skating, soccer, cross-country skiing, biking, or rowing. And don't forget that skipping, jumping rope, and playing hopscotch are aerobic activities, too!
Exercise Strengthens Muscles
Another kind of exercise can help make your muscles stronger. Did you ever do a push-up or swing across the monkey bars at the playground? Those are exercises that can build strength. By using your muscles to do powerful things, you can make them stronger. For older teens and adults, this kind of workout can make muscles bigger, too.
Here are some exercises and activities to build strong muscles:
 push-ups pull-ups
tug-of-war
rowing
running
in-line skating
bike riding
Exercise Makes You Flexible
Can you touch your toes easily without yelling ouch? Most kids are pretty flexible, which means that they can bend and stretch their bodies without much trouble. This kind of exercise often feels really good, like when you take a big stretch in the morning after waking up. Being flexible is having "full range of motion," which means you can move your arms and legs freely without feeling tightness or pain. It's easy to find things to do for good flexibility:
tumbling and gymnastics
yoga
dancing, especially ballet
martial arts
simple stretches, such as touching your toes or side stretches
Exercise Keeps the Balance
Food gives your body fuel in the form of calories, which are a kind of energy. Your body needs a certain amount of calories every day just to function, breathe, walk around, and do all the basic stuff. But if you're active, your body needs an extra measure of calories or energy. If you're not very active, your body won't need as many calories. Whatever your calorie need is, if you eat enough to meet that need, your body weight will stay about the same. If you eat more calories than your body needs, it may be stored as excess fat.
Exercise Makes You Feel Good
It feels good to have a strong, flexible body that can do all the activities you enjoy - like running, jumping, and playing with your friends. It's also fun to be good at something, like scoring a basket, hitting a home run, or perfecting a dive. But you may not know that exercising can actually put you in a better mood.
When you exercise, your brain releases a chemical called endorphins (say: en-dor-funz), which may make you feel happier. It's just another reason why exercise is cool!
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