Benefits of regular exercise in more detail

Aesthetic – You can directly control your body composition (your muscle to fat ratio) through exercises: your body will slowly start losing its natural tone and definition if you don’t maintain a training regime, regardless of how well you eat and how regularly you cleanse.

Kinaesthetic Awareness – the more you exercise, the more you understand your body in relation to the pace around it. Think of a Ballerina or Kung Fu expert, they don’t trip or stumble when they walk, to the contrary, they have so much grace and fluidity. All of this can be taught, and the way you move can be trained: through posture, balance and movement training, and pro-perception exercises.

Energy – When you are ‘fit’ you have more energy because both your heart and lungs adapt to the stresses of exercise and they essentially become stronger and more efficient.  Energy is vital for our wellbeing, and getting energy naturally through fitness has no side effects.

Mental Health – When you exercise your “feel good” chemicals - endorphins – are released. Dopamine, a “happy” chemical – is also increased: this can most commonly be achieved through endurance training. The phenomena is also called ‘Runners High’ and this is one of the reasons why exercising can become addictive, in a good way though.

Stress Management – Short or long-term stress can cause your body to store calories as fat cells. In recent years there has been much more research on female responses to stress. The key thing is to remember that exercise helps distress. Studies suggest that group training is best when stressed out as it fulfils the biological need to ’befriend’.