Exercise is important for both physical and mental health as it can help prevent diseases, improve stamina, strengthen muscles and bones, enhance flexibility, control weight, and improve quality of life. Specifically, exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses; trains the body to use energy more efficiently; develops muscles, bones and ligaments for increased strength; reduces injuries and improves balance; burns calories to aid in weight control; and reduces stress while lifting moods and aiding sleep.

1. Why Exercise Is Important

2. Helps Prevent Diseases Exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and other diseases.

3. Improves Stamina Exercise improves your stamina by training your body to become more efficient and use less energy for the same amount of work.

4. Strengthens and Tones Exercising with weights and other forms of resistance training develops your muscles, bones and ligaments for increased strength and endurance.

5. Enhances Flexibility Improving your flexibility through exercise reduces the chance of injury and improves balance and coordination.

6. Controls Weight Exercise is also a key to weight control because it burns calories. If you burn off more calories than you take in, you lose weight.

7. Improves Quality of Life Exercise reduces stress, lifts moods, and helps you sleep better. It can keep you looking and feeling younger throughout your entire life.

8. How to rate your exercise intensity.

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