The document discusses 5 health benefits of practicing martial arts: 1) It increases muscle tone and metabolism, preventing obesity and improving agility. 2) It improves cardiovascular health by exercising the heart. 3) It improves reflexes, which is important for daily activities. 4) It helps with weight loss by burning calories. Practicing an hour a day can burn 500 calories. 5) It improves mood by relieving stress and making people happier due to endorphins released during and after exercise.

1. 5 HEALTH BENEFITS OF
PRACTICING MARTIAL ARTS

2. Many children grow up with martial
arts as one of their first physical
activities. Martial arts are a great way
to stay active, and they also help
children practice ethics and self-
discipline. However, martial arts are
beneficial for adults, too.

3. Whether you’re an adult who used to
practice martial arts when you were
young, you’ve practiced them your
whole life or you’ve never practiced
them until now, martial arts are a fun
and beneficial way to work out. Here
are a few health benefits to martial
arts:

4. Whether you’re an adult who used to
practice martial arts when you were
young, you’ve practiced them your
whole life or you’ve never practiced
them until now, martial arts are a fun
and beneficial way to work out. Here
are a few health benefits to martial
arts:

5. They increase your
muscle tone.

6. When you engage in martial arts, you
are greatly improve the amount of
muscle mass in your body. As your
amount of muscle increases, your body
will look more toned. Another factor
that comes with heightened muscle
mass is that your metabolic demands
will be higher, and you will burn more
calories each day.

7. In this way, you are preventing obesity
and possibly causing potential weight
loss. The increase in muscle mass will
also lead to an increase in agility, so
you can avoid falling as you age.

8. They improve your
cardiovascular health.

9. One of the best health benefits of
martial arts is the way that they
improve your cardiovascular health.
Your cardiovascular system is made up
of your heart and the veins and
arteries that transport blood.

10. If you have a weak cardiovascular
system, you can experience weakness,
fatigue, shortness of breath and, in
severe cases, a heart attack. The only
way you can improve the
cardiovascular system’s functioning is
by doing activities that exercise the
heart, such as walking, running,
swimming, biking and of course
martial arts.

11. They improve your
reflexes.

12. Any good martial artist has very fast
reflexes. Research shows that doing
martial arts improve your reflexes not
only while performing the activity but
also during all activities in your life.
This is important for a number of daily
activities like driving and even
cooking.

13. They help you lose
weight.

14. Martial arts are a great way to burn
calories and as a result lose weight.
One pound of fat is equal to about
3,500 calories, so you need to eliminate
500 calories from your diet each day to
lose one pound of fat in a week.

15. If you don’t want to cut back on food so
drastically, just do one hour of
moderate intensity martial arts a day
and you will definitely burn 500
calories.

16. It improves your
mood.

17. One of the best ways to improve your
mood is to participate in regular
exercise. When you perform martial
arts, you not only relieve stress and
frustration, but you are likely to
actually become happier in daily
activities.

18. The endorphins released due to the
physical activity remain active in the
body for as many as four hours after
exercise, so the happiness will extend
beyond the time you are doing martial
arts.

19. The endorphins released due to the
physical activity remain active in the
body for as many as four hours after
exercise, so the happiness will extend
beyond the time you are doing martial
arts.