by Raptor

Created on: September 18, 2010   Last Updated: September 19, 2010

There is not, in my opinion, such a thing as too much exercise.  And I believe this for several reasons.  For one, exercising is extremely good for the human body in many ways.  Exercising, when it is done properly, is very good for your heart's health. It helps to both strengthen the heart and to encourage heart longevity. 

Exercising is very good for the immune system of the body.  The movement involved in many exercises enables the lymph of the lymphatic system to move throughout the human body. 

Exercise also, of course, is very good in that it helps to keep the human body flexible.  For example, if a person did not exercise at all but sat motionless and still in a chair for most of the time, his body would lose some of its capability to move in some ranges of motion.  It would lose some of its flexibilty. 

 Of course, there are many more benefits that exercise offers rather than just good benefits to the human body's overall health.  Exercise is also a very good way to encourage determination and motivation.  This is due simply to the fact that exercising is not an easy thing to do. If a person develops very specific physical fitness goals that he wants to achieve and make into a reality, than he has to be willing to overcome often many physical and physicological obstacles.

  For example, if a person that is in good overall health and is of average build and muscularity decides that he wants to be able to benchpress 700 pounds, he has to be willing and motivated enough to make it happen and become a reality.  He has to be determined.  He would have to be willing to spend maybe up to several years in the gym building up his muscularity and practicing the benchpress exercise.  He would have to gradually keep adding more weight resistance every time that he performed the benchpress exercise until he achieved his goal. 

 Therefore, due to its very nature, exercise is a very good way in which to encourage persistance, determination, and motivation in order to achieve specific goals.  These examples are just a few of the many that encourage exercise.  However, whenever any kind of exercise is being performed, I highly recommend that it be done in a public setting where, in the case that assistance is required, it can be provided in a timely manner. 

 Also, as is always the case, it is imperative that prior to starting any kind of exercise and/or physical fitness endeavor/s that you consult with a doctor.

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