Exercising daily has many documented benefits:
- Improves your chances of living longer and living healthier
- Helps protect you from developing heart disease and stroke or its precursors, high blood pressure and undesirable blood lipid patterns
- Helps protect you from developing certain cancers
- Helps prevent type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome
- Helps prevent osteoporosis
- Reduces the risk of falling and improves cognitive function among older adults
- Relieves symptoms of depression and anxiety and improves mood
- Prevents weight gain and promotes weight loss
- Improves heart-lung and muscle fitness
- Improves sleep
