A lot of people think that drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and driving while you’re drunk is permanently dangerous activities. But did you know that not doing anything at all such as not moving a muscle can be potentially fatal?
Performing daily workout is not only beneficial for losing weight but it’s also necessary for us to stay fit and healthy. Exercises can lessen the danger of many constant health issues like cancer, obesity, diabetes, and other illnesses. So if you’ve been feeling lazy to move, here’s what happens when you don’t do any physical activity.
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You find yourself having difficulty to sleep at night
You may think that not getting enough sleep at night is something you should not worry about. However, if this happens permanently, it can result in plenty of health problems such as heart disease, a gain of weight, poor immune system, moody feeling, and even become prone to accidents. Having sleepless nights due to lack of physical activity can be dangerous to our health.
Have you ever experience having a deep, relaxing, and rejuvenating periods of sleep after spending three hours in the clear and fresh air working in your backyard, swim at the beach, taking a hike, or have a long-distance run?
Robust exercise, particularly when performed done outdoors, is an extremely successful drug-free sleep inducer —one that you’re lacking if you aren’t getting daily exercise.
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You may develop heart disease
Even if you think that you are not experiencing high blood pressure, obesity, and high cholesterol being inactive can result in heart disease. According to the researchers of Johns Hopkins Medicine, they found out that exercise levels in more than 11,000 people joined in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities that those who are getting physical activity in middle age for six years was connected with an added risk for heart failure. Those 2,350 participants who were observed to decrease their physical activity increased their risk of getting heart failure.
The said participants who were investigated to have decreased physical activity increased their risk of heart failure by 18% even though they had no records or history of cardiovascular disease prior to conducting the study.
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You tend to forget a lot of things
Lack of physical activity is linked to memory problems. According to studies, exercise fosters neuroplasticity. It is the capacity of our brain to create new neural associations during life. Studies conclude that people who love to exercise and stay fit as young adults tend to have a greater memory in their old age.
According to scientists, exercises promote neuroplasticity. Our brains are capable of creating new neural connections throughout our lives. A study has seen that people who were fit as young adults tend to have a better memory in their old age.
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You get tired easily and have difficulty catching your breath
If you’ll notice, not exercising regularly may get you out of breath if you’re carrying a weighty bag of groceries or when you are climbing a flight of stairs. If you can relate to this feeling, it’s best that you do regular exercises to improve your cardiovascular health and lung health, resulting in enhanced functional exercise capacity and lessened breathlessness in people with severe lung conditions and healthy people. What this means is our body has a more efficient way of receiving and absorbing oxygen, even if our body is under stress. So, if you don’t exercise regularly, your body will not be able to absorb oxygen more efficiently when it’s under tension. This is why it’s difficult to take in the oxygen you’re about to use to breathe, making you feel like you are not taking enough air. This is why when you go back to exercise after a day off, it would feel as if you’re back to the starting point, panting like crazy to catch your breath.
Getting enough amount of exercise can help your body’s ability to usefully and productively acquire oxygen from the lungs to your heart when you are applying effort. The purpose of this is not to get embarrassed when you are out of breath as you walk up the stairs in public. It’s how the process of acquiring oxygen from the lungs to your heart also identifies how much oxygen transfers to your brain and other vital organs. This is the reason why you may get light-headed if you try to catch your breath. The bottom line is that having enough oxygen to the brain is important for your health.
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Your metabolism will slow down
Your metabolism, while you’re young, can be great, but it will naturally slow down as you age. One of the best ways to counterbalance these metabolism changes is to do more exercise like cardiovascular and resistance training, include lifting weights. Studies show that exercise supports a person’s RMR or Resting Metabolic Rate, the rate at which your metabolism operates when you are not exercising or otherwise active. Although your RMR can be affected by other factors, such as your body weight and muscle mass, which increases in RMR from regular exercise are valuable.
Meanwhile, if you lack in exercise, your under-used muscles will eventually shrink which is a phenomenon known as sarcopenia that causes muscle loss as you age and your body fat percentage increases, slowing down your metabolism. So why is RMR crucial? As we get older, our RMR diminishes. It’s important that people burn calories every day, so get your exercise equipment and start burning some calories. If you get to exercise now and you increase your RMR, you can be proactive about your metabolism instead of being reactive in the years to come.
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You feel more depressed and moody
If you think you’re being grumpier and lonelier than usual, then the feeling is not only in your head. Regular exercise plays a huge role when it comes to your mood. For people who are clinically diagnosed with depression, exercise can reduce those symptoms. Exercise has its benefits that are not significantly different from those collected from cognitive therapy or antidepressant and has been recommended as an alternative to these kinds of treatment.
You don’t really need to have a mental illness to profit from the benefits of exercise on mood, but when it comes to non-clinical levels of anxiety and depression they can also benefit from regular exercise.
