Health Benefits of Exercise

There are many health benefits to doing regular exercise including relieving the symptoms of stress, diabetes, high blood pressure and so on. If you suffer from one of the following - our workout may help:

Lack of Energy
Poor Circulation
Stress
Arthritis
Osteoporosis
Cardiovascular disease including heart attacks and blood vessel disease.
High Blood Pressure.
Depression and Anxiety
Smoking
General Lung Conditions
Asthma
Diabetes
Under-active Thyroid

Lack of Energy

Regular exercise boosts energy levels and encourages you to be generally more active.

Poor Circulation

Regular exercise helps circulation. It increases blood flow and gets the heart pumping blood around your body faster delivering oxygen and nutrients to all the cells of your body making everything stronger and healthier including hair and nails .

Stress

Chronic or long term stress increases levels of harmful hormones (cortisol). This in turn increases your appetite and cravings for unhealthy food, leading to weight gain especially around the middle, causing longer term issues like diabetes and cardiovascular disease. 

Happy hormones (Endorphins) created through exercise, help to eat up harmful hormones caused by stress and prevent them being deposited around the body in the form of fat.

Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Strength training increases the strength in the back muscles which act as shock absorbers, providing more internal protection against pressure and strain. Managing weight helps to alleviate burden on knees and hip joints.

• Eases arthritic joint pain and stiffness
• Improves joint flexibility and enhances joint lubrication
• Manages weight which decreases pressure on knees and hips in osteoarthritis
• Improve balance and reduce risk of falls
• Exercise produces bodies own painkillers (endorphins) which boosts mood.
• Increases general health and flexibility.
• Combats fatigue Improves function and keeps you more active.
• Stronger muscles through strength training protects joints and bones.

Osteoporosis and Osteopenia

• Strength training stimulates cells that build bone
• Improves strength and balance.
• All reduces the risk of both fractures.
• Bone density is increased.
• Improves function and keeps you more active.
• Stronger muscles protect joints and bones.

Cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, stroke and blood vessel disease)

• Our workout enables a gentle start.
• It increases heart efficiency and increases oxygen in blood.
• Improves the muscles ability to draw oxygen from the circulating blood. That reduces the need for the heart - a muscle itself - to work harder to pump more blood to muscles.
• Manages weight which in turn reduces High Blood Pressure, bad cholesterol in blood, blood sugar levels. (All major causes of cardiovascular disease)

High Blood Pressure

• Our workout enables a gentle start.
• Bad cholesterol is reduced minimising blocked arteries and thus reduces blood pressure. Exercise works like beta blocker medication.
• Reducing blood pressure reduces the risk of heart attacks and stroke (cardiovascular disease).
• Blood pressure is lowered as weight is reduced..

Depression and anxiety

if you are suffering all in with depression or anxiety exercise can help:

• It makes you feel empowered by taking steps to improve health.
• More positive body image.
• Research shows that strength training reduces anxiety.
• Energy boosted and better sleep

Smoking

Smoking reduces oxygen levels in blood and lowers metabolism. Exercise counteracts this as it raises oxygen levels and metabolism especially strength training. As happy hormones are released with exercise this has the potential to replace the feel good factor smoking provides.

General Lung Conditions

If you have any problems with breathing difficulties or asthma then exercise can help:

• Our workout enables a gentle start.
• Strengthens heart and lungs.
• Improves breathlessness. Improves fitness and stamina levels. I
• Increases lung capacity

Asthma

Above benefits plus:

• Boosts immune system (colds etc could trigger asthma).
• Weight loss lessens symptoms.
• Relieves stress which could trigger asthma.

Diabetes Type 2

Exercise can help with any problems with diabetes or an under-active thyroid.

Regular exercise is best way to prevent type 2 diabetes. Prevents complications. Type 2 can be reversed with the regular strength and cardio training that LFF provides. Insulin is recognised in the body and used more efficiently. Support weight loss which promotes better control of blood sugars and lowers cholesterol

Under-active Thyroid

Check if thyroid under or overactive. Building muscle through strength training can counteract these effects by raising metabolism. Most ladies suffer from under-active which affects weight, mood and reduces metabolism. Ladies with this condition are more liable to gain weight and suffer secondary problems caused by obesity