Santa Monica Fitness Instructors Explain the 15 Health Benefits of Regular Exercise, PART 4

Welcome to the final installment of this four-part article series on the many fantastic benefits of regular exercise, such as circuit training or interval training. In our previous three posts, Part 1, 2 and 3, our panel of experienced Santa Monica Fitness instructors covered the following benefits.

Regular circuit training or interval training exercise:

Is Good For Heart Health

Can Help You Lose Weight and Look Great

Can Prevent Creaky, Brittle Bones

Can Lower Your Blood Pressure

Is Great for Busting Stress

Can Actually Help Prevent Colds and Flu

Can Reduce Complications Associated with Diabetes

Promotes a Good Pregnancy

May Combat Cancer

Promotes a Healthier Brain

Stokes The Fire in The Bedroom

Let’s take a look at the final four benefits of regular exercise!

Regular Exercise Helps You Sleep Better

According to research done by the South African Memory Resource Centre, regular exercise – ideally in the morning – can help you fall asleep faster and enjoy a better quality of sleep.

“Exercise also indirectly promotes healthier sleep patterns because it stimulates the release of endorphins, which results in a feeling of wellbeing and relaxation,” explain Santa Monica fitness instructors.

Regular Exercise Can Keep a Stroke At Bay

According to a study that was published in the October 2013 issue of the medical journal Stroke, people who exercised regularly were 27% less likely to suffer from a stroke than those who are inactive. This isn’t hard to believe when you consider that regular exercise lowers blood pressure, fights cholesterol, stabilizes insulin levels, burns unhealthy fat and stimulates blood circulation, all of which help to prevent blood clots.

Circuit Training Promotes Better Mental Health

Our minds and bodies are intimately intertwined, so it stands to reason that the regular exercise afforded by circuit training or interval training classes not only improves your physical health, but also your mental health. According to sports psychologist D.R. Brown in his article, “Exercise, Fitness and Mental Health” (1990), exercise:

Offers a distraction from the daily frustrations and stresses,

Encourages us to interact with other people socially,

Raises our core body temperature, which has been shown to combat muscle tension,

Stimulates the production of internal opiates, such as endorphins, which contribute to a greater feeling of happiness and wellbeing.

Has an effect on the key hormones that control our anxiety levels and moods, such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.

Can make us feel more in control of our bodies, our lives and ourselves. So, Santa Monica fitness clubs offer people the opportunity to improve their bodies and their overall wellbeing.

Circuit Training is Great for Joint Health

Here are a few more, slightly obvious benefits of regular circuit training and interval training at one of Santa Monica’s fitness centers:

Increased muscle strength and bone strength,

Greater muscle mass (which is what makes your beach body look so enviable),

Improved joint function and strength.

This latter point is especially important for Santa Monica residents who suffer from arthritis or any other kind of condition that causes pain and inflammation of the joints. By coming in to your local Circuit Training gym regularly, you can improve the strength of your joints as well as their mobility, staving off some of the more debilitating symptoms of this terrible disease.

Santa Monica Gym Instructors Explain the 15 Health Benefits of Regular Exercise, PART 3

Welcome to the third installment of this four-part article series on the incredibly varied benefits of regular Fitness Classes Los Angeles residents. In our previous two posts, Part 1 and 2, our panel of experienced Santa Monica gym instructors covered the following benefits. Let’s take a look at what they are before moving on. Regular circuit training or interval training exercise:

Is Good For Heart Health

Can Help You Lose Weight and Look Great

Can Prevent Creaky, Brittle Bones

Can Lower Your Blood Pressure

Is Great for Busting Stress

Can Actually Help Prevent Colds and Flu

Can Reduce Complications Associated with Diabetes

Have a Happy Healthy Pregnancy with Regular Circuit Training

As long as you don’t overdo it – and with the permission of your obstetrician –regular fitness classes in Los Angeles can be greatly beneficial for expecting mothers. In addition to helping you keep off the baby weight, back and pelvic muscle exercises can be especially therapeutic for women who are perhaps struggling to bear the burden of their expanding tummies.

Regular Exercise May Combat Cancer

Cancer is frequently the result of unhealthy living and bad habits, which is why it is known as a lifestyle disease. In fact, according to the Seattle Cancer Research Center, as much as 35% of all the deaths caused by cancer can be traced back to these lifestyle problems: being overweight and underactive.

“Regular circuit training and fitness classes in Los Angeles help to burn fat and keep off unwanted pounds; exercise also speeds along the passage of food through your digestive tract, which decreases your body’s exposure to any toxins,” explain Santa Monica gym instructors. “Additionally, insulin, of which overweight people have quite a lot of, tends to encourage tumor growth.”

Circuit Training Promotes a Healthier Brain

As it turns out physical exercise is also great for your brain, so shelve the Sudoku puzzle and sign up for a fitness class at your local Los Angeles gym. Regular exercise, such as circuit training or interval training, has been shown to increase blood flow to your noggin, which is thought to stimulate the growth and repair of nerve cells responsible for memory. This is the finding of researchers at the University of Illinois who found that active seniors displayed the same level of brain responses as young men and women.

Regular Exercise Stokes The Fire in The Bedroom

“There are two primary reasons attending regular fitness classes in Los Angeles can improve your sex life,” explain Santa Monica gym instructors. “First of all, psychologically, regular exercise makes you feel good about yourself. Having a fit body makes you more willing to get naked and to perhaps even be open to a more varied bedroom experience. Physically, regular exercise raises your body’s libido and sexual responsiveness. It also stimulates blood circulation and increases the release of your body’s ‘happy’ hormones in the brain, which is a fundamental sexual organ.”

The kind of exercise offered by circuit training or interval training can make you feel completely different about your body; it can make you feel sexy and desirable again and the positive effects it has on your brain, on stress and on anxiety all work together to send the hot blood coursing through those veins again!

Stay Tuned for Part 4 To read more about the incredible health benefits of regular exercise, whether its going for a run around the neighborhood or Interval Training at a fitness class in Los Angeles, stay tuned for the final installment of this four-part article series. .

Fitness Center Instructors in Santa Monica Explain the 15 Health Benefits of Regular Exercise, PART 2

Welcome to the second installment of this four-part article series on the incredibly varied benefits of regular circuit training at your local Fitness Center Santa Monica. In our previous article post, Part 1, our panel of experienced fitness experts explained the following four benefits, all of which are proven and supported by medical literature. Let’s take a look at what was covered before moving on.

Regular circuit training or interval training exercise:

1. Is Good For Heart Health
2. Can Help You Lose Weight and Look Great
3. Can Prevent Creaky, Brittle Bones
4. Can Lower Your Blood Pressure

5. Circuit Training is Great for Busting Stress

If you live in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve become acquainted with stress. If you’re human, then you have most definitely become acquainted with stress and one of the best ways to give stress the boot is NOT to eat chocolate and drink red wine: effective maybe, but not as healthy and effective as a good workout at your local fitness center in Santa Monica. 

“People rarely dwell on the things that cause them frustration, stress and anxiety while working out and if they do, that negative emotion gets channeled directly into the exercise and then released,” say circuit training instructors. “Exercise also releases cerebral chemicals such as endorphins, which, similar to eating chocolate and certain bedtime activities, make you feel happy. Exercise also reduces the physical symptoms of stress, such as muscle tension, stiffness and pain.”

1. Circuit Training Can Actually Help Prevent Colds and Flu

We’ve all heard the warnings: never exercise when you have a cold. But did you know that exercise could actually leave your body more immune to the common viruses that leave you sneezing and in bed with a fever? According to research done at the University of Carolina, 23% of the test subjects they studied were less likely to contract the flu because they exercised more frequently. They were also less likely to suffer from severe or extended bouts of flu than those who didn’t exercise regularly.

 

“The biggest concern when it comes to circuit training while ill with a cold or the flu is the strain exercise puts on your heart. While it’s best to talk to your doctor, the general rule of thumb is that if the symptoms are restricted to your nose, throat and sinuses and you basically feel okay, it is all right to engage in light exercise until you have healed. But if the symptoms affect your lungs – such as bronchitis – or you feel sick, weak and have a fever, you absolutely need to rest up and get better before you hit your local fitness center in Santa Monica. This is not only for your own good, but you don’t want to give everyone else the flu as well!”

1. Regular Exercise Can Reduce Complications Associated with Diabetes

Diabetes is commonly a lifestyle disease and is the result of chronic unhealthy eating, smoking, drinking and not enough exercise. By improving the way you live and by visiting your local fitness center in Santa Monica three or more times per week, you can reduce your body’s insulin needs, lower your blood pressure, lose unhealthy weight, improve your blood circulation and bring down your cholesterol. Through all of this, you not only reduce your risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease, you also eliminate many of the complications associated with diabetes.

Stay Tuned for Part 3

To read more about the incredible health benefits of regular exercise, whether it’s going for a run around the neighborhood or Interval Training at your local fitness center in Santa Monica; stay tuned for the third installment of this four-part article series.

Santa Monica Gym Instructors Explain the 15 Health Benefits of Regular Exercise, PART 1

Summer is here and with the heat comes the desire to peel off that business suit and hit the beach. That is, until you see what the winter has done to your physique. Now, while regular exercise can help you to stay in shape and keep your body beach-ready, its health benefits go far beyond converting flab to fab. From increased stamina, energy and libido to a healthier brain, heart, joints and sex life, circuit training classes at one of Santa Monica Gyms can help you to enjoy peak physical and mental health and a world class life.

In this four-part article series, Santa Monica gym instructors explain to us the incredible whole body health benefits of getting up off the couch and back into action! These benefits are proven and supported by medical literature.

1. It’s Good For Heart Healt 

       

According to an article published by the Duke University Medical Center in The New England Journal of Medicine, regular exercise is great for the health of your heart in many more ways than one. It has been shown to reduce blood pressure and the bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol) that tends to accumulate in your arteries. Regular circuit training classes at one of Santa Monica’s gyms also exercises your heart, which is a muscle after all, and this helps it to function more effectively. Additionally, with increased blood flow, there is a lesser risk of clotting, which can cause serious and potentially fatal health problems.

1. Lose Weight and Look Great

“Exercise burns calories, which causes your body to make use of the energy it would otherwise store as fat. If you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose unwanted weight,” explain circuit training instructors. “The key to weight loss success is consistency. Maintain a healthy diet, no yo-yo dieting, and enjoy a workout three to four times per week, per month.”

2. Prevent Creaky, Brittle Bones

“Regular exercise can help prevent the development of conditions such as osteoporosis, especially if done in conjunction with a good intake of calcium,” say Santa Monica gym instructors. “Keeping your bones healthy and strong is a lifelong commitment and the payout is huge if you’ve ever met someone suffering from osteoporosis and seen the degree to which they struggle.”

3. Lower Your Blood Pressure

 

“Doctors and other medical healthcare professionals say it all the time: high blood pressure and cholesterol are silent killers. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how much you weigh and what your lifestyle and gender is: regular exercise can lower your blood pressure, which in turn benefits your heart and your health immensely. If you’ve been diagnosed with abnormally high blood pressure in the past, exercise alone may be insufficient and you should speak to your doctor about going on some kind of medication,” advise Interval Training instructors.

Stay Tuned for Part 2

To read more about the incredible health benefits of regular exercise, whether it’s going for a run around the neighborhood or working out at your Santa Monica gym, stay tuned for the second installment of this four-part article series.