![]() ![]() ![]() However, about 7 out of every 10 women and 6 in every 10 men in the UK are not active enough to protect themselves against coronary heart disease. Regular, moderate-intensity physical activity reduces the risk of developing coronary heart disease and can reduce the likelihood of dying from heart disease. When we think of exercise we think about our chest or our quads but just like any other muscle, the heart needs physical activity to help it work properly.Īccording to the British Heart Foundation, being active can reduce your risk of developing some heart and circulatory diseases by as much as 35%.Ībout one in every five cases of coronary heart disease in developed countries is due to physical inactivity. It’s often forgotten that the heart is a muscle. If the arteries that carry blood to your heart get damaged and clogged, this can lead to a heart attack. Heart Healthīeing inactive and living a sedentary lifestyle can lead to fatty material building up in your arteries. Weak core muscles encourage slumping and tips your body forward and off balance. Muscle strength affects balance in multiple ways as the ‘core muscles’ of the back, side, pelvis and buttocks form a sturdy central link between your upper and lower body. Overly tight chest muscles can pull your shoulders forward. Regular movement also improves our posture – poor posture isn’t necessarily down to ‘bad habit’ as physical reasons can include inflexible muscles and poor muscular strength.įor example, overly tight, shortened hip muscles tug your upper body forward and disrupt your posture. Use of joints naturally increases flexibility and strength, but motion also lubricates joints and reduced swelling – not only does movement help to maintain joint health in the long term, but it also helps to reduce any joint pain symptoms* almost immediately due to the production of endorphins, our body’s natural pain killers. Movement is essential for maintaining joint health. Moving regularly and decreasing out time spent sitting, tells our body to wake up and reminds it that we do need our muscles, and our joints need to move freely. Our muscle size decreases if we don’t use them and our joints begin to feel stiff. Think of your body like a car – if you don’t run it regularly, it’s going to slowly start to deteriorate and seize up. In layman’s terms, we’re talking about your joints and muscles and the benefit of daily movement. ![]() So how can moving more benefit the health of our bodies? Musculoskeletal Fitness ![]() Creaky knees, stiff backs and getting breathless from going up the stairs aren’t only signs that you aren’t as healthy as you could be, but also that you aren’t getting enough quality daily movement. Getting lost in our screens and eating at our makeshift desks may have become the norm now that we’re no longer able to go for lunchtime walks with our colleagues and some days you may find yourself moving no further than from your desk to the fridge and back.īut it’s important to remember that that’s not what our bodies are built for. With many of us now working from home it’s even easier to forget about moving. Then we come home, and we sit down to relax until it’s time to go to bed. At work we sit at our desks for 8 hours a day. Human life has become structured in a way that makes it very easy for us to avoid movement – even more so in the last 12 months. But, movement is so much more than vanity and doesn’t have to involve ‘working out’. When most people hear healthy movement, they think exercise or long-winded gym sessions or looking better or weight loss. ![]()
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