From carrying groceries to athletic competition, your muscles are your foundation of strength, movement and coordination. This is why exercise is paramount to living a healthy and happy life.
Keeping them strong and mobile by working out at least 3 times a week helps avoid injury, grow muscle (at any age), and improves resistance to illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, depression and anxiety.
Working with a personal trainer will ensure you are working within your abilities, while still challenging yourself to become better.
5 Illnesses Working Out Helps You Avoid
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Diabetes
- Heart Disease such as Stroke and Heart Attack
- Depression
- Anxiety
Alzheimer’s Disease
Research indicates that dementia is NOT inevitable due to old age – you can take steps now in order to bolster your resistance to it! (Alzheimer’s Prevention, 2025). Exercise increases blood flow to the brain and helps strengthen neurological pathways associated with movement and coordination. Try getting in at least 3 days a week of exercise, such as walking, weight lifting or yoga to meet the recommended requirements.
Diabetes
Not only does regular exercise help with weight management, but it also helps improve insulin sensitivity, reduces blood sugar levels, and lowers the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (ScrawlJoydip, 2023). Though everyone wants to know the “Magic Bullet” of exercise, which workout works the BEST to avoid diabetes, it actually just comes down to practice. It doesn’t really matter if you prefer to do weightlifting or running, kickboxing or Zumba… the BEST exercise is the one you can consistently motivate yourself to do daily.
Heart Disease such as Stroke and Heart Attack
A regular exercise routine can help lower blood pressure, lessen the risk of developing diabetes, maintain healthy body weight, and reduce inflammation throughout the body. Not only that, but people that regularly exercise also are less likely to engage in poor health habits like smoking. Which is another voluntary factor. That can be avoided to reduce the risk of heart disease. Exercise has been known to reduce stress hormones, improve your cardiovascular system which will help pull oxygen out of the blood, as well as increase your HDL (good cholesterol) that helps control triglycerides in your body. People that regularly exercise are less likely to suffer a sudden heart attack or other life-threatening heart event (John Hopkins Medicine, 2023).
Schedule your Free No Sweat Intro with us today and see how personal training can help you!
Depression
Exercise helps alter the neurochemistry of your brain and improves neurotransmitter levels and neural function. Exercise can help stop rumination, as well as raise self-esteem and self-worth through sense of achievement, self-efficacy, and mastery. It also helps reduce the psychological and physiological effects of stress and reduces the damaging effects of chronic stress on mental health by lowering cortisol levels and increasing mental clarity and calmness (Hossain et al., 2024).
Living a healthier lifestyle where exercise is part of your normal daily function and not seen as a chore will help those with depressive symptoms overcome the harder storms of depression. Especially when motivation isn’t there. By building a lifestyle structured around healthy habits, depression will be easier to conquer with the use of proper tools like exercise, proper nutrition, and regulated sleep.
Anxiety
Exercise is usually the first step in lifestyle modifications for the prevention and management of chronic diseases. Regular exercise significantly reduces anxiety, depression, and other comorbidities by up to 30%. The health benefits of exercise are seen across the board in all age ranges and racial and ethnic categories. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend 30 minutes of moderate to high-intensity exercise for at least five days a week for all healthy individuals.
Whether you are training for your next ultra-marathon, or just want to move easier throughout your day, exercise is the single BEST thing you can do for your body. If you are having a hard time starting, find a good personal trainer that can work at your level and push you to your limits! Untamed Fitness is a great place to start if you live in the Seattle / Shoreline area!
Schedule your Free No Sweat Intro with us today and see how personal training can help you!
Sources:
Alzheimer’s Prevention. (2025). UsAgainstAlzheimer’s. https://www.usagainstalzheimers.org/alzheimers-prevention?gad_campaignid=11183345994
Hossain, M. N., Lee, J., Choi, H., Kwak, Y.-S., & Kim, J. (2024). The impact of exercise on depression: How moving makes your brain and body feel better. Physical Activity and Nutrition, 28(2), 43–51. https://doi.org/10.20463/pan.2024.0015
John Hopkins Medicine. (2023). Exercise and the Heart. Www.hopkinsmedicine.org; John Hopkins Medicine. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/exercise-and-the-heart
ScrawlJoydip. (2023, June 6). Exercise: Key in Diabetes Prevention. Charles County Department of Health. https://charlescountyhealth.org/exercise-and-physical-activity-key-factors-in-prediabetes-and-diabetes-prevention/
