Exercises for Healthy Lifestyle and Longevity

Exercise Regular can improve physical and mental health. Experts say that not all exercise has the same effect on everyone. This means that you need to find the exercise that works best for your body and health condition as well as the goal of exercising. Some people exercise to lose weight, burn calories, gain muscles, or simply conduct a healthy lifestyle and longevity.

The key to finding the right exercise is to mix different types of exercises such as strength training, cardio, and flexibility exercises. Combining different types of exercise will keep the exercise fun, so you can get maximum health benefits. Here are three categories of exercises that you can do in for everyday training.

Strength training

Also called power or resistance training, strength training builds up muscle as it involves repetitive motion using body resistance. Strength training usually uses free weights, elastic weights, weight machines, and even bodyweight to build resistance. To increase power as well as reaction times, this exercise is done at a faster speed. There are some types of strength training including push-ups, pull-ups, squats, deadlifts, lunges, and any exercise using weight machines in the fitness center or gym.

Strength exercise is good to build as well as tone muscles and also increase muscle mass. Besides the looks that you get, strength training helps manage your weight, burn calories, prevent the bone mass loss, avoid accidents and falls, improve balance, mobility, trigger endorphins, and so on.

Cardio exercise

Cardio or aerobic exercise is the type of endurance activity in which a large number of muscles move in rhythmic motion in a certain amount of time.  The cardio exercise includes brisk walking, aerobic exercise, running, tennis, basketball, hiking, cycling, soccer, dancing, and many more. The good side of cardio exercise is it helps control weight by regulating appetite and burning calories. Cardio exercise also helps lower blood pressure as well as control blood sugar. In some ways, cardio exercise also improves thinking ability and memories, so it helps reduce the risk of mental decline illness. Cardio exercise reduces joint stiffness and pain, improves mood, and helps better sleep at night.

Flexibility and balance exercise

Another type of exercise to perform is flexibility and balance exercise. This type of exercise challenge body ability to move freely in a various range of motion. It helps maintain balance and stability. There are lots of flexibility and balance exercises to try such as stationary stretches, pilates, and yoga.

Body balance usually gets worse as you age and it can be difficult to improve your balance. You can try yoga, pilates, and tai chi. You can also do simple exercises such as standing on one leg, using a wobble board, walking backward, and such to build balance. Maintaining flexibility and balance is important to help the body stay limber. Such exercise also helps improve the range of movement in daily activities, prevent back pain, increase circulation, relieve tension, and stress.