5 - Helps lose weight and keep it off.

Exercise helps lose weight and keep it off. Why does exercise help and how does exercise play a vital role in keeping off those unwanted kilo’s? Below we discuss these essential reasons to get ourselves one step closer to our health and fitness goals.

What we aim to promote is the level of knowledge and understanding about how our bodies break down fat, as well as what prevents us. Many of us have heard the “how to lose weight” slogans but right now we need to get past these fads and concentrate on how we were created.

Our bodies are the most incredibly, advanced machines on the planet, and even though we can cope with making unhealthy food choices, there are consequences. Much like if we have a gas car and decide to fill it with diesel, this may allow us to drive a few kilometres but eventually the car will run out of existing fuel and break down. Starving our system of the vital nutrients it needs is the same as the car example and will cause our bodies to break down.

 When we consume food, it is broken down into its three main elements: Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats. Carbohydrates are then broken down into Glucose.  Glucose is a simple sugar and is our body’s main source of energy, also known as (blood sugar).

For glucose to be used as energy, the cell needs to have insulin present. Insulin is automatically produced by our body to match the amount glucose (sugar) levels in our blood stream.

The reason why exercise is so important in our daily lives is because we use the glucose in our cells as fuel for energy. Without exercise, our bodies store the remaining glucose in our fat cells. If our bodies have glucose present in our blood stream, then our bodies won’t use our fat cells for energy production.

To gain the ability to burn our fat cells we must exercise to remove glucose from our blood. This process occurs in the first 15-20 minutes of exercise, and after the first 15-20 minutes of exercise, our bodies then start to use fat cells for energy production.

Now that we know why exercise is so important in the process of losing weight, we can now combine the understanding of how our bodies lose weight with our health and fitness goals. This will improve our knowledge for why we should exercise. Creating a stronger Motivation and producing results. Your body is our temple, treat it right and we will become unstoppable on our way to achieving your health and fitness desires.

 

For more reasons about why exercise is important in our daily lives,

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1 -          Strengthens heart muscle.

2 -          Decreases the incidence of heart attack.

3 -          Reduces risks for heart disease, reducing bad LDL cholesterol and increasing good HDL  cholesterol.

4 -          Improves circulation and oxygen/nutrient transport throughout the body.

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