Since childhood, we regularly hear loud phrases about the benefits and necessity of playing sports. We are convinced that a healthy mind can only live in a healthy body, that sport is a real cure for degradation, as well as a means for a full-scale fight against alcoholism and drug addiction.
We confirm the importance of sport and agree with all these statements, since they actually contain a rational grain. But what benefit can be found from sports if we bypass all these big phrases and try to analyze the situation more deeply? Why is sport so important and how can it change it for the better? Why do you need to play sports? What is its role in a person's daily life?
The importance of sport in human life
Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is physical training. Regular exercise helps keep muscles toned, get rid of fat deposits, and look slim and beautiful. Thanks to the active propaganda and educational work of valeologists, the enormous importance of sports in human life today is known to everyone. However, sport can give us much more obvious benefits to the body.
Regular exercise helps maintain discipline.
Like any other regular activity, exercise helps build self-discipline. Forcing yourself to play sports means starting its development. The role of sport in this regard is very great. Getting into the habit of exercising every day will give your schedule a starting point. Based on it, you can make planning your everyday life more clear and stable. In addition, it will be easier for you to show discipline in other areas of your life: you can train yourself to wake up every day when the alarm clock rings (and sometimes even without it), come to meetings on time, learn a new language, and so on.
Physical exercise improves your mood.
During sports, the human body produces endorphins, which are also called happiness hormones. You just have to overcome the barrier of laziness and jog along the path for at least ten to fifteen minutes - and you will be guaranteed an elevated mood after a shower. How to start playing sports with pleasure? Just devote at least fifteen minutes to it. This is a wonderful way to get rid of short-term and long-term depression. Physical exercise will be an excellent alternative to “eating problems.” Fight sadness for the benefit of yourself and your body. When you have nothing to do, are bored and are busy aimlessly refreshing pages in your browser, for the sake of an experiment, give yourself a 20-minute exercise and see how your condition changes.
Physically strong people are more attractive to the opposite sex.
Since primitive times, every person, at the level of instincts, had the desire to continue the family line with a physically strong partner, who, if necessary, could defend the family. These instincts work perfectly in our time: strong guys enjoy the well-deserved attention of women, and fit girls instantly attract the admiring glances of men. This is why sport is important.
Regular exercise increases life expectancy.
Many could argue that during physical exercise, oxygen consumption increases, organs work more actively, which means the body wears out faster. This is partly true. However, untrained muscles may refuse to work at one not very pleasant moment. A weak heart will not cope with the flow of blood - and an attack will be guaranteed. Many older people exercise regularly without feeling much discomfort. Comparing them with their lazier peers, one can quite clearly bet on who will outlive whom.
Sport helps you live.
Why do you need to exercise every day? As already written above, regular physical exercise helps strengthen muscles and organs. This allows you to prevent many diseases, not to mention the fact that it allows you to feel better even in old age. Sport helps you live. In the gym you can meet like-minded people, on a morning jog you can meet positive people, and a grueling evening workout will help, contrary to logic, to relieve fatigue after work.
You will live longer
“Whoever does not smoke or drink will die healthy” - you can hear from every not very developed subject.
There are so many beautiful, interesting and no less exciting things in life than smoking and alcohol.
How can you consciously, on a daily basis, suppress your genetic line, poison all systems of the body, deliberately make your brain less efficient, using many substances that kill a person?
Well, I understand, it’s a holiday, there are stupid traditions of drinking “to your health,” but why do this all the time, every day, especially when smoking?
A smoker is like a walking stinking cesspool, which outwardly does not always look sick, and does not always look unhealthy.
The body is inertial.
If you start smoking, don’t expect your health to fail instantly, no.
At first you will get used to it. The body will get used to the undeserved pleasure received from the drug (nicotine), and then the body will begin to give up over the years.
Your heart hurts, but it’s hard to breathe, on the fifth floor without an elevator - well, it doesn’t matter, and so on until some system fails. And he will refuse in any case.
“But my grandfather smoked and lived to be 90 years old!”, yeah, only if he hadn’t smoked, he would have lived to be a hundred, and he would have been healthier.
And don’t compare yourself to generations that are older than us.
Their health was stronger due to food, better ecology and due to the fact that previously there were not so many medications that could suppress any infection.
But why should I read morals to you, this is the business of each person, and I cannot judge anyone, everyone has their own story.
I will give you an example with one experiment. 20 thousand mature men were involved, the experiment lasted 8 YEARS! The experiment revealed that the mortality rate among men who did not engage in sports was on average TWICE HIGHER than among those who regularly engaged in physical activity.
It's up to you to think and decide.
By the way, I have a cool article on my blog about how to live long.
The undeniable importance of sport
Playing sports is certainly important - we have known this since childhood. However, knowing and understanding are not the same thing. We need to be fully aware of all the benefits that exercise brings us. We must understand how to start playing sports with pleasure, and appreciate the role of sports specifically for our lives. We must be aware that the reluctance to exercise can sooner or later result in major health problems for each of us.
And if this is really the case, isn’t it easier to force yourself to exercise at least 30 minutes a day in order to feel in good shape for the rest of your life? If you cannot answer this question, then start at least small, for a test or experiment. Very soon you will realize that you don’t want to stop.
Your lower back will be healthy
Of course, I’m not saying that everyone who works out in the gym has a healthy back.
Everywhere there are unique people who practice for decades with the wrong technique, and over time, as the load increases, the “weak link” (in our case, the lower back) gets injured.
You need to understand that if you have been performing deadlifts with a barbell with a rounded lower back for 5 years in a row, then expect that a cute furry animal - the Arctic fox - will soon come for it.
Physical activity in the gym strengthens the core and lower back muscles (spinal extensors and other muscles).
In one study, 35 out of 38 volunteers avoided back surgery by doing special exercises to strengthen their back muscles.
The ability to extend your life
All people are mortal, but they love life and want to stay here as long as possible. It's completely natural, it's ingrained in our DNA.
There is a little secret to live a long healthy life, you need to be healthy first. This may seem obvious, but often many people just stand around wondering why their lives are slipping between their fingertips. They often think, "Oh, I'll start eating right next week" or "I'll go to the gym tomorrow." There are so many people who think that tomorrow is another day.
To increase self-esteem
If you are going on vacation or just decided to open the beach season, you would like to wear a sexy bikini, and not a swimsuit that looks like a raincoat, so that you can hide in it like a snail in a shell.
Going to the gym can take you one step closer to wearing those favorite jeans you haven't fit into for over two years. The feeling of self-worth from appearance should not be underestimated.
Improving your physical abilities
Much of our athletic ability is genetic, and it is also true that greater physical strength and endurance are achieved in the gym. They go hand in hand with overall athleticism, and that's a fact.
If you want to get an athletic physique, there is no better place to achieve it than in the gym. If you want to make the football team, play soccer, or just want to improve your athleticism in general, lifting weights is one of your best bets.
Great hobby
You can often meet athletes who have not noticed how they have made sports their hobby. Lots of people have their favorite pastime. Some people collect coins, some go skiing, some just go to the bathhouse. The gym is also a hobby, and a damn good hobby.
If you find something you like, stick with it. Make it your hobby. The gym is great for this because there is so much you can learn and learn there. You can set goals and achieve them. It's one of those things that you can easily become addicted to.
Some will say that it is bad to be addicted to anything, but if you ask anyone who has a great physique, they will be the first to tell you that the gym is a great place, whether you are addicted or not. Actually, it's great.
If you have nothing to do
If you have a ton of free time and are really wondering what you can do in this moment? Why not just go to the gym? Now I have an idea. The gym can be a great escape. This is a place where you can go and get a good workout instead of hanging out on the couch on social media.
Hitting the gym will not only allow you to have fun, but it will also prevent you from doing anything you don't need to do.
The gym can easily be a problem for the rest of your daily life. You will want to quit drinking and smoking, and you will increasingly look at healthy eating. In other words, you will be boarding the “health train,” as some like to call it. And once you enter, many will not want to leave.
The mood will be better
An important thing in the current realities.
Have you noticed that after training your mood becomes better? You have a real boost in energy!
Indeed, it is so. All this happens due to hormones that literally bubble in our body during and after training.
During training, testosterone and dopamine work at full speed, which, by the way, do not turn off after training. Also, after training, the hormone oxytocin (the relaxation hormone) is turned on, which, by the way, is released after orgasm.
