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Ways Cardio/Exercise Will Improve Coping
With the Problems of Trauma
1. Increases your self-confidence and self-esteem.
2. Improves circulation and helps to reduce blood pressure.
3. Enables your body to utilize nutrients more efficiently.
4. Gives you more energy.
5. Enhances your immune system.
6. Increases the enzymes in the body which burn fat.
7. Tones and firms up your muscles.
8. Makes calcium transport in the heart and the entire body more efficiently.
9. Lifts your spirits.
10. Improves breathing in that less ventilation is required per liter of oxygen consumption.
11. Alters how your body uses calories ( more efficiently.)
12. Increases metabolic rate.
13. Improves your appetite for healthy foods.
14. Improves liver functioning.
15. Enhances feedback through the nervous system.
16. Strengthens the heart.
17. Improves blood flow through the body.
18. Increases maximum cardiac output due to an increase in stroke volume.
19. Improves the ability to decrease heart rate after exercise.
20. Improves contractile function of the whole heart.
21. Improves the development of the strength of connective tissue.
22. Increases total hemoglobin (which carries the red blood cells.)
23. Improves the ability to remove lactic acid.
24. Improves efficiency in breathing.
25. Increases inspiratory (breathing) capacity.
26. Lessens sensitivity to the buildup of carbon dioxide.
27. Increases strength of ligaments.
28. Enhances cardiovascular system function.
29. Enhances cardiorespiratory system function.
30. Improves alveolar ventilation (greater oxygen consumption.)
31. Enhances neuromuscular relaxation, thus reducing anxiety and tension.
32. Alleviates depression.
33. Increases your positive attitude about yourself and life. 34. Increases the efficiency of using adrenalin, resulting
in more energy.
35. Gives you a feeling of control or mastery over your life and a belief that you can create any reality you want.
36. Improves the whole quality of your life.
37. Reduces joint discomfort.
38. Decreases appetite when you work out from 20 minutes to one hour.
39. Gets your mind off irritations.
40. Enables you to move from left brain to right brain thinking.
41. Enables you to relax more quickly and completely.
42. Improves emotional stability.
43. Increases the level of the hormone norepinephrine which boosts the spirits.
44. Increases your range of motion.
45. Enables you to better enjoy all types of physical activities.
46. Invigorates the body and mind.
47. Releases blockages and limitations in thinking.
48. Can change the electrical activity in the brain from beta to alpha.
49. Enhances clarity of the mind.
50. Helps you to move past self-imposed limitations.
51. Increases the natural level of endorphins (boosts the spirits.)
52. Stimulates and improves concentration.
53. Stimulates a feeling of well-being and accomplishment.
54. Increases your own physical awareness.
55. Increases your ability to solve problems more easily and often effortlessly.
56. Gives you a clearer perspective on ideas, issues, problems and challenges.
57. Makes you feel good.
58. Decreases fat tissue more easily.
59. Stimulates hormonal releases which alleviates pain.
60. Gives you a greater appreciation for life as a result of feeling better about yourself.
61. Gives you a greater desire to participate in life 100%, to take more risks as a result of increased confidence and
self-esteem.
62. Reduces or precludes boredom.
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