If you don’t keep moving, you’re taking a big risk. There are so many health issues waiting to plague those who stay sedentary for too long. Want to keep your bones supple? Correct your posture? Keep your teeth healthy? Avoid macular degeneration? Then keep moving…
Boost your brainpower
Even short bursts of movement will boost your thinking abilities. People who ran two three-minute sprints, with a two-minute break in between, learned new words 20 per cent faster than those who rested, in a German study. So the moral of the story is, get your heart pumping and increase the blood flow to your brain. It helps with multitasking, planning, and memory.
Relieve stress throughout your body
Resting your body isn’t always the best for reducing pain and stiffness in the knees, shoulders, back, or neck. People who move often have less musculoskeletal pain than their couch-bound peers. This is because movement releases endorphins, the body’s natural pain reliever. Arthritus sufferers who do low-impact excercise like balance and strengthening moves have less pain and feel better after a few weeks.
Correct your posture
If you strengthen your core muscles with movement you will be able to stick to a better sitting and standing posture. And we all know good posture is good for us.
Improve your dental health
Regular movement of some kind actually improves your dental health. Many studies have found adults who do moderate activity are far less likely to suffer from periodontitis, a gum disease that’s more common as you get older. Apparently, it works the same way that movement helps you to avoid heart disease – lowing levels of inflammation-causing C-reactive protein in the blood.
Become more effective during the day
People who go for a short walk at lunch time or do some regular movements throughout the day found they think more clearly, get more done and interact better with those around them, according to a study from the University of Bristol in the UK.
Feel more energetic
When you do even short bursts of movement, it increases your energy and boosts the release of brain chemicals such as norepinephrine and dopamine which make you feel less tired. You’ll
also get a healthy dose of serotonin – a mood enhancer. So if you’re feeling tired, just get moving.
Become happier
Again, even small amounts of movement get your body to release endorphins which improve your mood and make you feel great and then you want to keep moving!
Improve many health conditions
These include heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, obesity, back pain, osteoarthritis and depression.
See around you clearer
What’s good for your heart is good for your eyes. The more movement you do, the more you decrease your risk of macular degeneration, according to a recenty study run by the British Journal of Ophthalmology. Macular degeneration is an incurable disease and it makes reading, driving, and seeing fine details more difficult and can eventually make you blind.
