Exercise is one of the keys to a happy, healthy, successful long life. When you exercise you train your body and mind to become stronger, powerful and fit to take on any challenges your face in the gym or your life. Exercise can be fun form or activity like playing a sports, or going for a walk or run with friends, taking your dog to the park to play, going for a hike, or taking a nice relaxing bicycle ride. For the more serious athletes exercise can be very strict and disciplined with little fun but greater physical and mental training, the bottom line is that you need regular exercise and activity in your life to have a better quality of life.
When you get regular exercise you will strengthen your muscles, bones, joints, heart, lunges, mind, and central nervous system to name a few. Exercise increases blood flow through your body, which will help you grab more nutrients and oxygen into your brain to get your mind and body to peak performance levels. You will feel lighter on your feet and have more energy throughout the day. Your sexual desire will increase as your hormones are ramped up during and after exercise, which is an important part of recovery and building a healthy body and mind.
As you push yourself through a tough exercise and you complete an exercise routine with total confidence and desire, you begin to see and feel your body and mind sharpen and take shape, life will become less stressful and you will feel like you are on top of the world and nothing can stop you from achieving your goals. You will develop more confidence in yourself from exercise that will flow into other areas of your life.
You will feel a sense of power from regular exercise, like you are a newer you with positive belief in yourself to totally succeed and surpass your previous accomplishments in and out of the exercise gym. You will feel more attractive from the way you think and look which is great. People will feel more attracted to you when they see you take control of your body and mind to strive to achieve health and well being, and the fact that you are looking pretty good too.
Now you know the importance of exercise and the great benefits it has for not just your body but your mind as well. Exercise will challenge you to keep progressing and help you get through hard times in your life which will relieve stress and increase you confidence to strive to achieve new levels of success in all areas of your life.
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Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) is part of Hatha Yoga (the "physical" part of Yoga).
Sun Salutation has multiple mental and physical benefits. In only ten minutes you can achieve a low impact workout that combines both Resistance Training (e.g. weight lifting) and Cardiovascular ("Cardio") Training.
The fitness community accepts the fact that cardiovascular exercise has reduced benefits (e.g. fat burning ends once the cardio exercise stops). It also has disadvantages like tear and wear of joints.
Resistance Training on the other hand, has multiple benefits: increases muscle mass hence more fat burning capability, increases bone density to mention just a few. The drawback: it is painful (I know I don't like the feeling of burning in my muscles, even though I know it is good for me). Resistance training is also time consuming and it may increase blood pressure momentarily if not done properly.
A good compromise is Interval Training that consists of hard alternated with light pace cardio exercise. And this is exactly where Sun Salutation comes in. It is similar with Interval Training by combining a low impact resistance training (push-ups, squats) with cardio exercise. Even better, the benefits of Sun Salutation don't stop at the physical level: your mind benefits as well.
Regular practice of Sun Salutation benefits your body with:
Increased blood oxygenation by copious lung ventilation and this is great news for your heart.
Stretches and tones your muscles keeping them supple and flexible.
Clears your elimination channels helping your body rid itself of toxins. This is especially good in the morning after many hours of lack of movement during sleep (the lymphatic system eliminates toxins through movement).
Stimulates and tones your Endocrine system (especially the Thyroid, the master gland that controls all the other glands).
Tones up the internal abdominal organs by alternate stretching, compression cycles that results in better digestion and bowel movement.
Increases spine and waist flexibility.
The mental benefits of Sun Salutation are similar with meditation. You can look at Sun Salutation as meditation in movement. It is not random that Tai-Chi (Chinese) or Kata in Karate, have a similar focussed mind on movement approach at the core of their practice. Sun Salutation helps to:
Increase your mental focus and concentration.
Reduce depression, anxiety and stress by reducing key markers like Cortisol.
Increase the quantity of "good mood" neurotransmitters like Serotonin.
Increase mind to body coordination which is very good especially for older persons.
If done properly, twelve repetitions of Sun Salutation (six pairs of Sun Salutation starting with one leg and then the other), go a long way. It takes roughly 30-40 seconds for one complete cycle (twelve postures flowing from one to the other). Add two minutes of relaxation at the end, to allow your body implement the "reset" you just performed, and you are ready for the new day.
Ten minutes all together in the morning will help you look at the unwinding life from a different perspective.
Among many Sun Salutation techniques, stands out as an graceful flow of twelve postures developed by Swami Sivananda, a practicing medical doctor (MD) before taking up monasticism, therefore developed by a person with knowledge of the human body.
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