If you have a busy life but still wish to get in shape, release stress or increase strength and endurance, I urge you to discover the benefits of working out at home for beginners.
Discover everything that exercising from home could do for you and if you are better off going to a gym instead.
Here you will find the reasons why you need to add the exercise to your daily routines. We will also provide the advantages of workout at a gym and the benefits to do it at home.
Benefits of working out at home that you might not have known about
1. Exercising enhances creativity
Just like our body becomes stronger and more flexible when we exercise, our brain too. It becomes nimbler and more active as a result of working out. After multiple studies, science has been able to confirm that physical activity truly enhances creativity. If you have been asking yourself how to be more creative, then working out is a simple, cheap, and fun way to do it.
2. It reduces stress and its symptoms
We are living in a world with so many changes that no matter what we do, we’re doomed to swim in a sea of stress and its effects. Working out at home helps you manage and relieve stress.
It is a fact that with just 20 minutes of working out your body will feel less stressed and it does so by decreasing the stress hormones called cortisol.
3. It slows down aging
Having an active, motivated, and low in stress body will help you slow down aging. If you are young or old, exercising will help you better your health and prolong your life.
Let’s live with intention and value our life!
4. Improve Your Energy Levels
A Daily workout routine makes your body have more energy daily and can also improve the quality of your sleep. This increase in energy will be reflected in your day-to-day activities and fill your life with a new purpose.
Coming home after work and not doing any physical activity can generate laziness. This sedentary style of life will induce loss of muscle, heart sickness, anxiety, and even depression.
5. It makes you a happier person
We are constantly looking for happiness, right? A study at the University of Michigan found even a small daily workout at home can help with this.
So, let’s be the type of people that take action. Science has confirmed that working out at home boosts happiness as it increases the generation of endorphins, a chemical that makes you feel good.
6. It reduces muscle pain
Lack of exercise makes you lose muscle mass but working out daily does the opposite as it helps your body generate muscle mass instead.
As soon as you make a routine it will help improve your overall strength and fight muscle pain.
7. Help ease and prevent Mental Illnesses like Anxiety, Depression and Mood disorders
Having the opportunity to workout can alleviate many of the symptoms of depression, such as tension, fatigue, and anger. It’s an easy way to add variety to your days. Studies have found that working out proactively reduces the body’s reaction to anxiety, reduces feelings of fear and worry as well as decreases the intensity and frequency of panic attacks in some cases.
8. Reduce the probability of suffering from heart diseases and cancer.
Home activities like aerobics, weight lifting, jogging, or running help your body be stronger. Webmd also reported that it lowers your blood pressure, improves your cholesterol, and reduces your blood sugar.
It also cuts the risk of suffering from diabetes, colon and breast cancers, osteoporosis, and fractures.
9. It generates confidence in yourself.
Working out helps you lose weight, tone your body and it alleviates stress which in turn makes you a happier person. This translates into confidence and a person who is capable of achieving other goals.
“Your wealth is a measure of how much you trust yourself.” ― Meir Ezra
10. Boost Your Mood
Working out distracts you from negative thoughts and emotions. When it comes to self-esteem, sedentary life is one of the factors that can cause more damage to your emotions.
Just shifting your focus to a physical task like push-ups, aerobics, weightlifting, dancing, and running can cause your tension to melt away and your mood to change drastically. I encourage you to just try for a week and add exercises to your lifestyle. Try it and let us know your experience. 🙂
“We Cannot Direct the Wind, But We Can Adjust the Sails” -Dolly Parton
Now you are probably asking,
When you should workout at the Gym
- If you would like to have the opportunity to socialize while you workout or be surrounded by other people who have a similar goal as you.
- If you are looking to do bodybuilding or training to become a professional athlete then the variety of equipment found on a gym is the way to go.
- If you need an excuse to leave your home.
Other Benefits to workout at home
- Flexible hours
- You are less exposed to germs
- You will enjoy the privacy.
- You can better manage your time because you can split your routines however you want.
- If you are a parent you will not need a babysitter
- You are responsible for your own progress
- You will save money
- Possible opportunities for varied exercises
- You save yourself the daily commute
- Fewer excuses to workout
Final thoughts
Everyone wants a healthier life and even though exercising can be draining, the reality is that in the end, it fills us energy, it relaxes our mind and body and yes, it makes us more healthy.
Improving your overall health with exercise is a way to love ourselves, elevate our self-esteem, and treat ourselves.
Choose a space, buy some basic equipment, find some motivational music and try it. Let’s live how we are supposed to live and do what we are supposed to do.
Now it is your turn, are you ready to take action and try for yourself the benefits of exercising?
To your workout success!
Ria