Exercise has a ton of benefits, including:

  • Helping to manage your weight
  • Building stronger muscles and bones
  • Reducing the risk of many health conditions, like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even some cancers
  • Making your immune system stronger
  • Helping to manage chronic conditions like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes
  • Helping to manage chronic pain like from arthritis
  • Improving your mental health
  • Increasing the chance that you’ll live longer

 

Exercise is good for you in so many different ways. In just about every aspect of your health, exercise can help. It can help lower your risk of getting a lot of different health conditions. But it can also help manage health conditions if you already have them. It helps with both physical and mental conditions.

 

All of those benefits can help you live longer. One study found that people who exercised lived up to 4 ½ years longer.

 

Doctors recommend that you do at least 2 hours and 30 minutes of exercise every week. This can be broken up however you’d like. For example, you could exercise for 30 minutes, 5 days each week. Or you could do 1 hour, 3 days each week. Whatever works best for you.

 

But even if you can’t exercise for that long, any amount of activity is better than none.

 

Be wise – exercise!