What fascinating adaptation processes take place in the body through regular training?
Why is exercise essential?
Regular exercise is important for a healthy and efficient body and mind! Exercise increases your performance, promotes blood circulation in your body, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and strengthens your immune system. As soon as you exert yourself physically, your body releases messenger substances that release happiness hormones.
Your mood lifts and you feel calmer and more balanced. Exercise helps you to reduce stress, which has a positive effect on your sleep and helps you to concentrate better. Exercise connects your body and mind, boosting your self-confidence and body awareness.
Advantages of regular strength training
Strength training contributes to building muscle mass. Muscle tissue consumes more energy than fat tissue, even at rest. The more muscle mass, the higher the basal metabolic rate.
Prolonged physical inactivity, poor posture or comfort lead to a breakdown of the muscles in the long term. Strength training is an excellent antidote to relieve pain and improve posture.
Strength training can boost mood by stimulating the release of endorphins and serotonin. These chemicals, along with increased self-confidence, stress reduction, distraction during exercise and improved sleep quality, contribute to the positive effects on brain chemistry and mental health.
Strength training has an activating and protective effect on joints, tendons and ligaments. The training leads to an increase in bone density. It is an excellent prevention against bone injuries and osteoporosis.
Strength training influences hormones such as testosterone and growth hormones, which can stimulate the metabolism. These hormones promote the build-up of muscle mass and have a positive effect on the body’s energy consumption. Building skeletal muscle makes the body stronger and more resilient.
Muscles that are connected to the bones via tendons pull on the bones during training. This strengthens the bones and increases bone density. Regular training exerts pressure on the bones, which stimulates the bone cells to form more bone tissue.
Through training you develop mental strength and stamina, which can help you to overcome physical challenges and increase your performance.
Strength training leads to the development of muscle mass and definition. Well-developed muscles can improve the appearance by defining and toning the body shape. It can improve circulation and stimulate collagen production, which can lead to firmer skin.
Exercise has a positive effect on our appearance, balance, flexibility and mobility. Regular training helps you to get to know your body better. You become more aware of movements, tensions and sensations in your body.
Exercise can help to balance the immune system so that it is neither overactive nor underactive. A balanced immune system reacts appropriately to threats.
Both strength and endurance training increase calorie consumption, which helps to burn fat. This can lead to a reduction in body fat and therefore to a slimmer appearance.
Regular exercise can help to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It improves blood flow to the heart muscle and can help to make the cardiovascular system more resilient.
Advantages of regular endurance training
At rest and under submaximal stress, the heart works at a lower frequency, the heart muscle is better supplied with blood and works more economically. Endurance training improves blood circulation and the transport of oxygen and nutrients to muscles and organs. It contributes to the health of the cardiovascular system.
The body recovers more quickly and becomes more resistant to higher stress levels. It can strengthen the immune system and improve the body’s resistance to disease.
Endurance training improves muscles and cells, increasing endurance and performance. Muscles receive more energy through additional mitochondria, better oxygen supply through more blood vessels and use more fat as an energy source. The cells become more sensitive to insulin and inflammation decreases.
Physical activity can regulate cholesterol levels. It can increase the “good” HDL cholesterol and lower the “bad” LDL cholesterol.
Endurance training can lower blood pressure as it helps to improve the elasticity of blood vessels and reduce resistance in the arteries.
The vegetative functions – the automatic processes in the body – are better regulated.
Endurance training continuously provides the body with energy by increasing the heart rate, stimulating the metabolism and continuously burning calories. This burns more calories, which can lead to a calorie deficit.
Myokines are released, hormone-like substances that have a positive effect on numerous functions of the body. They reduce inflammation, improve the metabolism and support the immune system.
Eating habits are optimized and the consumption of stimulants often decreases. People who exercise regularly often develop greater health awareness. This can lead to conscious nutritional and consumption decisions being made in favor of healthier foods and products.
During exercise, the body releases endorphins, which act as natural stress hormones and increase well-being. Regular exercise can also help to regulate the release of stress hormones such as cortisol. Physical activity also distracts you from stressful thoughts and helps to relieve tension, lift your mood and reduce stress.
Endurance training improves stamina by strengthening the cardiovascular system and acclimatizing the body to prolonged exertion. The heart is stimulated to work more efficiently by contracting more and pumping more blood per heartbeat. As a result, the muscles are better supplied with oxygen and can use energy more efficiently.
Endurance training can have a positive effect on creativity, as physical activity influences various neurological and psychological processes. Endorphins are released during exercise, which can increase well-being and lift the mood. This has a positive effect on thinking and mental flexibility, which in turn can promote creativity.