LIFE Health & Fitness Club

Health Benefits of Exercise and Physical Activity:

• Reduce or maintain body weight or body fat
• Build and maintain healthy muscles, bones, and joints
• Reduce depression and anxiety
• Enhanced work, recreation, and sport performance
• Relieves insomnia
• Improves muscle tone, strength and flexibility
• Helps older adults become stronger and better able to move without falling
• Reduce the risk of premature death
• Reduce the risk of developing and/or dying from heart disease
• Reduce high blood pressure or the risk of developing high blood pressure
• Reduce high cholesterol or the risk of developing high cholesterol
• Reduce the risk of developing colon cancer and breast cancer
• Reduce the risk of developing diabetes Improve psychological well-being .
• Boosts self-image

Benefits of Aerobic Exercise:

• Reduced body fat and improved weight control
• Increased blood supply to muscles and ability to use oxygen
• Increased threshold for lactic acid accumulation
• Increased maximal oxygen consumption (VO 2max)
• Improvement in cardivascular/cardiorespiratory function (heart and lungs)
1. Increased maximal cardiac output (amount of blood pumped every minute)
2. Increased maximal stroke volume (amount of blood pumped with each beat)
3. Increased blood volume and ability to carry oxygen
4. Reduced workload on the heart (myocardial oxygen consumption) for any given submaximal exercise intensity
• Lower heart rate and blood pressure at any level of submaximal exercise
• Lower resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure in people with high blood pressure
• Increased HDL Cholesterol (the good cholesterol)
• Decreased blood triglycerides
• Improved glucose tolerance and reduced insulin resistance

Benefits of Strength Training:

• Increased muscular strength
• Increased strength of tendons and ligaments
• Potentially improves flexibility (range of motion of joints)
• Reduced body fat and increased lean body mass (muscle mass)
• Potentially decreases resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure
• Positive changes in blood cholesterol
• Improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity
• Improved strength, balance, and functional ability in older adults.