Here are some benefits of Aerobic Exercise/Training:
1. Exercise increases your stamina and endurance: This ought to excite you. If you find yourself exhausted at the end of the day—too tired to even enjoy your family—you need to make regular exercise a part of your life. Once it becomes a habit, you won’t want to give it up. You’ll feel too good!
2. Exercise reduces stress: Exercise activates your endorphins, causing a natural high and a sense of well-being.
3. Exercise reduces your risk for heart disease and stroke: Coronary heart disease is the leading killer in the United States, and nearly half of them are women.
4. Exercise strengthens your immune system: It actually increases your resistance to stress and illness.
5. Exercise strengthens your bones and joints: This is a very important benefit for women because strong bones and joints decrease a woman’s chance for osteoporosis.
6. Exercise decreases your appetite: You won’t be as hungry because exercise acts as a natural appetite suppressant.
7. Exercise will increase the number of calories you burn: This increase will accelerate your weight loss and encourage weight control.
8. Exercise will strengthen your heart and lungs so that they will work more efficiently: Exercise literally strengthens your heart muscle, and a stronger heart will last longer.
9. Exercise decreases a woman’s risk for breast cancer: Studies have shown that women who engage in exercise at least three times a week have a lessened chance of developing breast cancer.
10. Exercise decreases your blood pressure and blood cholesterol: Exercise decreases your blood pressure and LDL, or bad cholesterol, while raising your HDL, or good cholesterol.