{"id":4457,"date":"2022-01-05T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:21:28","slug":"25-reasons-exercise-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"25 Reasons Exercise is Good for You!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy New Year to one and all!  If you\u2019re serious about making this year your healthiest and most productive on record, then you\u2019ve simply got to make exercise a top priority. No more excuses, procrastination is fruitless, just get moving and do it. Here are 25 indisputable reasons why you need to exercise in 2022!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Exercise is beneficial to your emotional and psychological well-being. It can alleviate depression and anxiety, eliminate fatigue, and give you more energy for the things you want to do.<\/li>
  2. Exercise boosts and fortifies your immune system making you more resistant to colds, flu and all manner of germs and viruses.<\/li>
  3. Exercise helps you think clearer.<\/li>
  4. Exercise is a creative and dynamic way to burn off stress when you are worried about life\u2019s little difficulties.<\/li>
  5. Exercise improves posture by doing such things as flattening your stomach and eliminating lower back pain.<\/li>
  6. Exercise can help curb and even eliminate excessive health care costs.<\/li>
  7. Exercise improves flexibility at the joints.<\/li>
  8. Exercise helps lower blood pressure and your resting heart rate.<\/li>
  9. Exercise helps to preserve and build lean muscle.<\/li>
  10. Exercise helps burn excess blood sugar caused by poor nutrition and daily stress.<\/li>
  11. Exercise revs your metabolism to burn more calories even while you are asleep.<\/li>
  12. Exercise is good for pets. Pets can get fat and flabby just like their owners due to a sedentary lifestyle.<\/li>
  13. Exercise is a great way to enlarge your circle of friends.<\/li>
  14. Exercise is a wonderful excuse to get outside and enjoy the Florida sunshine.<\/li>
  15. Exercise improves coordination and balance as it makes you more stable and resistant to falls and accidents.<\/li>
  16. Exercise helps improve appetite as well as curb your appetite against stress eating or grazing out of boredom.<\/li>
  17. Exercise lowers the bad cholesterol (LDL) and raises your good cholesterol (HDL).<\/li>
  18. Exercise can greatly decrease the risk of certain types of cancer.<\/li>
  19. Exercise improves the supply of oxygen to your cells helping you to move more freely and breathe more deeply.<\/li>
  20. Exercise improves and enhances sex drive!<\/li>
  21. Exercise lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes in most people by combatting obesity caused by a sedentary lifestyle.<\/li>
  22. Exercise prevents bone loss and increases bone density thereby decreasing your risk of osteoporosis.<\/li>
  23. Exercise, especially activities like swimming, biking, and walking, greatly improves your cardio-vascular system making you more resistant to heart attacks and heart disease.<\/li>
  24. Exercise is the only effective and inexpensive \u201cfountain of youth\u201d available to all of us. Face-lifts, fillers and Botox may give you a temporary lift, but regular exercise will help you look and feel younger for years on end!<\/li>
  25. Exercise helps improve self- image making you a happier, more confident and productive person at work, at home and in your relationships.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Please note that there is nothing new about any of the above suggestions and most of them will cost you nothing. Pick 2 or 3 and make them happen. Here\u2019s to 2022 and a healthier you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy New Year to one and all!  If you\u2019re serious about making this year your healthiest and most productive on record, then you\u2019ve simply got to make exercise a top priority. No more excuses, procrastination is fruitless, just get moving and do it. Here are 25 indisputable reasons why you need to exercise in 2022!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}