Let's do excercise!

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk about doing exercise.
The idea of physical activity is referred to all intentional natural body movements made by humans in a period of time, resulting a considerable increase in energy expenditure, and also to interact with others and the environment.

Health and physical activity concepts are closely related, because if you want to have a healthy life you need a balanced diet and physical activity. These two ideas are essential to maintain necessary body balance.

Physical activity is very important for a healthy life because this provides great benefits for our organism if you do it regularly and systematically. Some benefits are: increased coordination, muscle mass gain which produce an increase in the basal metabolism, body fat decrease, less body fatigue, an improvement in blood circulation, regulation of heart rate, blood pressure decrease, improvement in lung capacity and the subsequent oxygenation, muscle strength development which produce an increase in bone strength, better body position by strengthening lumbar muscles; diseases prevention such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and osteoporosis.

Regular physical activity produce an improvement in organs functions, creates a sense of emotional wellbeing, which has positive consequences directly related to confidence in development of daily tasks and also a strengthens self-image,

Probably you could say that you don’t have any money to expend it in a gym, but that is not the only way to do excercise. You don’t need to go to the gym to do any physical activity. You just could walk in the park or run in every place you like. Maybe it could be an instance to share with friends and family. This is a great opportunity to do something all together, like play football or basketball.

Chile has high sedentary levels. 91% of the chilean population is sedentary, and most of them don’t see the problem.

We are young and we are able to change this statistics. As futures members of a health team, we must to contribute changing these levels, promoting physical activity and a balance diet as a lifestyle.