You may have heard the phrase, “Move it or lose it” or “You won’t wear out, but will rust out.” Keeping young and vital has nothing to do with age. It has to do with staying healthy and active. If you take fitness classes in Jenkintown you’ll improve your chances of staying younger looking and feeling longer. They help maintain muscle strength that often diminishes the older you get. One part of aging is loss of muscle mass, which can be slowed with exercise.
You’ll boost your telomere length.
What’s a telomere? Telomeres are similar to those caps on the end of shoelaces that prevent the laces from unraveling, only they’re on the end of chromosomes and protect the genes. Every time a cell replicates, a bit of it disappears. Telomeres provide that tissue that disappears, so it doesn’t come from the genetic material, which could cause cell damage and eventually death. The more you exercise, the longer your telomeres are and the healthier you are at a cellular level.
You’ll burn off the hormones of stress when you workout regularly.
Stress can make your day horrible and leave you feeling bad. It gives you that bad feeling in the pit of your stomach. When you’re under stress, your body prepares to run or fight. If you don’t, you remain feeling stressful all day. Of course, most stress today comes from traffic jams, angry bosses, crying children and things that you can’t run from or fight. That’s why working out is so important. It mimics either running or fighting and burns off the hormones to help your body get back to normal.
Talk about weight loss!
Exercise burns calories, too. The amount of calories you burn all depends on the type of exercise you do. The more rigorous the exercise, the more calories you’ll burn. Losing weight is a matter of burning more calories than you consume. If you burn approximately 3500 calories more, you lose a pound. Exercise helps boost the calorie burning, while building muscle tissue.
- Muscle tissue requires more calories for maintenance than fat tissue does. The more you have, the more calories you’ll burn 24/7. That means it boosts your metabolism.
- You’ll feel great after you workout. Exercise does more than just burn off stress hormones. It stimulates the body to create hormones that make you feel good.
- Exercise classes can improve your posture, so you’ll look more confident. It’s amazing, but the more confident you look, the more confident you feel.
- You’ll be more flexible and agile when you workout. Many of the aches and pains associated with getting older will disappear and you’ll feel healthier.
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