It would be a waste of time to refer to benefits of exercise to human life and the state of general physical and psychological health.
This article discusses how a few minutes exercise per day can save you from dangerous diseases and how could improve your life and health, uplift your mood, eliminate depression and give a boost to your sexual performance.
It is true to say, people who exercise regularly and take care of their body & diet (as shown by statistics) have a longer life and this is not the only fact. Apart from living longer, they live a better quality life.
Research has shown that physical exercise can greatly improve a person’s quality of life and provide defense against many diseases. The gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, hormonal system and other organs, are affected by physical exercise in a positive way, working better, presenting a lower number of infections and general diseases.
I understand you may not be a fan of exercise; probably you don’t like the exercises with complex machines, trying lifting weights (among strong athletes), preferring to spend your time on the couch doing “nothing”.
Here I try to present you a number of reasons to dedicate even 15 minutes of relaxed exercise in your daily life, changing really your life.
Basic Benefits of Treadmill Exercise
No.1: Security
If you feel threatened in parks and streets early in the morning or late at night for running, then a treadmill at home is an ideal solution. In the security of your home, you can exercise as much as you like & whenever you want, even controlling the conditions of your exercise (music background, room temperature, room brightness, time of day).
After the end of exercise, you can go for a refreshing bath and feel the vitality & energy running in your entire body (better than a cup of strong coffee).
No.2: Controlled Exercise
The Treadmill allows the user to control the conditions of exercise, as the degree of difficulty, duration, ground slope, intensity, and speed, simple or complex exercise.
All these options set the final degree of difficulty in the training performed.
This is one of the main reasons that the treadmill is one of the most suitable ways to exercise even if you are a beginner. An amazing form of cardiovascular (cardio) exercise enhancing good heart function and improving the user’s respiratory function.
No.3: Pleasant Training
The treadmill can offer you enjoyable exercise at home. You can accompany your training with dynamic music or even watching at TV your favorite program. This way the 15-30 minutes go by without you even realizing it.
No.4: No Injuries
Treadmill training can prevent the trainee from serious injuries. Various mishaps on the street can lead to serious damage, keeping you out of training for a long time.
Using the treadmill, everything may be controlled. In fact, its special construction helps to absorb intense vibrations and ultimately protect the joints from the pressure exerted on them when running.
No.5: Treadmill, a “tool” in various sizes
Now you can find a wide variety of treadmills in different sizes, different constructions (folding or not), with different programs, and most importantly, at different prices.
Therefore, you can find what it “does” for you and the price level to afford.
Yes, there are also very expensive machines; however, you will now find Treadmills on the market with very affordable prices and very decent performance (for home use).
Even if you do not have the space at home to turn a room into a gym, there are “tools” to help you with their smart storage. You will find folding treadmills in the market (much smaller in volume compared to fixed treadmills) which when folded can be easily stored under the bed or in a closet to save valuable space in the apartment.
Folding them is extremely simple and not time consuming, so that you have no excuse to avoid your training.
No.6: Provides Training Programs
Training on a Treadmill provides great flexibility and variety, giving you the freedom to plan your own “routes” (defining your own degree of difficulty) or choose one of the ready-made programs (of varying difficulty) provided by the treadmill.
This way you get away from the monotonous and flat running experience and you may simulate a real walk in an outdoor space, with a changing slope, difficulty, or speed.
The muscles are constantly trying to adapt according to the program changing the degree of difficulty and this keeps them “awake”.
No.7: Performance Data
A Treadmill provides you with tangible results for performance in each workout. You can control the time spent to complete your program, the calories consumed, the speed managed to develop. You can even control your heart rate throughout the workout (with the right accessories).
The data extracted each time from your training can be stored through an app, so checking your statistics, progress and identifying your “weak” points (during training), your physical condition.
The data are determined based on the user’s body weight being quite accurate to produce an objective picture of what is accomplished in your workout (especially if losing weight and burning calories is an important goal in your daily plan).
No.8: Rapid Loss of Body Fat
The aerobic exercise offered by a Treadmill is the ideal way to “wake up” your metabolism being neglected for so long.
With just 15-20 minutes a day (and in fact not a very intense session), you can burn up to 250 – 350 calories.
As you can see, losing weight is much more possible with a daily 15-minute workout on the treadmill, in a simple and easy way.
No.9: Advanced Exercise
To make an even more difficult program or to save valuable time you can take some dumbbell and hold them in your hands while you run on the treadmill. This will also stimulate your upper body and arms, shoulders, back. Everything within the same 15 minutes of the day.
You can also wear special weights on your feet to increase the degree of difficulty when running.
Do not tell me that you do not have just 15 minutes a day.
No.10: Cardiovascular Stimulation
Aerobic (cardio) exercise enhances the good blood circulation and promotes good heart function.
Scientific studies confirm that regular aerobic exercise can prevent serious heart disease and stimulate the “health” of your heart.
In addition, scientists emphasize the positive effect of aerobic exercise on the levels of bad cholesterol in blood (whereas improving good cholesterol levels). Studies show that the cardiovascular stimulation provided by aerobic exercise can help control and even lower bad cholesterol levels, known to be one of the leading causes of death along with cardiovascular disease.
No.11: Ideal Training for Overweight people
The controlled training offered by a Treadmill is ideal for overweight or obese people. The data provided by the machine can help you control your heart rate during training and control its intensity at any time.
No.12: Exercise for Diabetics
Exercising on the Treadmill (and gentle aerobic exercise in general) is the ideal way to introduce a diabetic to physical exercise and this new lifestyle imposed by this condition.
Exercise helps to control the levels of the hormone insulin, which is especially beneficial for people with type 2 diabetes.
Certainly, training should not be “uncontrollable”, while the guidance of the treating physician is recommended for the type, intensity and difficulty of physical activity to be followed by a patient with diabetes.
According to studies, just 20 minutes of physical activity can help the liver release stored glucose to provide valuable energy to “nourish” tired muscles.
Very often the doctor adjusts (reduces) the medication to patients exercising regularly, as no longer needed, since the great benefit received from physical exercise.
No.13: Good Sleep and improved Mood
Aerobic exercise helps the body release beneficial hormones, also known as “happiness hormones” to achieve a good psychology and fight depression, intense stress, negative emotions, bad thoughts and boredom.
Besides, the “discharge” of all these negative emotions helps in the best and high quality sleep. Studies show that beneficial sleep is the one relaxing the mind and body and calming the soul, so enhancing the proper functioning of the body (at all levels) and promoting the wellness and longevity.
No.14: Loss of Local fat
If you think that training on a treadmill will only stimulate your leg muscles, you are making a huge mistake. Running is an exercise stimulating your entire body (depending on the degree of difficulty and intensity selected).
In fact, running on a Treadmill can help significantly even in burning the persistent local fat, in abdomen, waist, periphery or buttocks (or even gain some muscle mass).
Surely, in order to achieve a larger fat burning, you should exercise for more than 15 minutes and definitely at a higher intensity.
No.15: Motivation
This type of training gives you an extra incentive to adopt a healthier lifestyle, since it is easy and brings clear results to your body image, mood and health.
Weight loss is a great incentive convincing people to enter a more active way of life and stay in it.
No.16: Muscle Gains
Yes! Even with aerobic exercise (cardio), the muscle gains are extensive. Perhaps not as large as with weight training but remains important to strengthen your muscular system and stimulate the core of your body.
It is no coincidence that all coaches recommend a combination of cardio and weight training.
No.17: Bone Density
Cardiovascular exercise on the treadmill – in addition to muscle stimulation offers a loss of body fat, to help on strengthening your bone density, meaning strength of your bones and their resistance during the training process.
Especially for women (experiencing a large loss of bone density during menopause) training on a Treadmill proves to be extremely beneficial and to prevent future injuries.
