What are the benefits of fitness for women?

For the vast majority of women, the biggest benefit of fitness is actually taking back control of the body - it is not the "getting thin to 90 pounds" or "building a right-angled shoulders and peach buttocks to be in good shape" advocated by the outside world, but that you can clearly perceive the state of your body, know what it can bear and need, and do not need to be led by various body anxieties.

I met a young girl who was a content operator two years ago. When she first planned to exercise, she struggled to even squat 10 times. She stayed at her desk all the time and stayed up all night. She had to take ibuprofen when she was pregnant. Her shoulders and neck hurt so much that she had to go to a massage parlor every week. Later, she did three days a week, 40 minutes each time, 20 minutes for shoulder, back and core exercises, 20 minutes. Zhong rides the elliptical machine and does not deliberately diet or pursue weight loss. The first thing that changed after three months was that her period was no longer so painful. Later, she stayed up for two long nights to catch up on projects and got some sleep the next day. Her shoulder and neck pain rarely happened again. The last time I saw her carrying two large boxes of cat litter up to the sixth floor, she was not out of breath.

Many people don’t pay much attention to it. The natural physiological structure of women determines that the rate of bone loss after the age of 35 is more than twice that of men of the same age. The risk will double again after menopause. Maintaining regular strength training can effectively increase bone density. By the age of 50 or 60, the risk of fractures is more than 40% lower than that of people who do not exercise at all. Several sisters around me who have been working out for five or six years are almost 50 this year. The annual physical examination has normal bone density. They can do square dances and do the splits without any problem. They have not even suffered from knee pain. There are also a few friends who are preparing for pregnancy or have just given birth to a baby. They have maintained exercise habits all year round. Their morning sickness during pregnancy is much less severe. After giving birth, the rectus abdominis muscles are separated by less than one finger. They can resume normal exercise two months after delivery, which is more than twice as fast as that of mothers who do not exercise at all.

Of course, there are many different opinions now. Some people say that working out will make the body full of muscles and look unsightly. Others say that after practicing for half a month, they have not only lost weight but also injured their knees. Instead, they feel that working out is useless. In fact, both of these statements have their own basis. If in order to pursue extremely low body fat and exaggerated muscle lines, if the daily caloric gap is too large and the weight is too heavy, it is indeed easy to cause menstrual disorders and sports injuries. Many academic studies have also mentioned that female fitness groups who excessively pursue fat loss are indeed more likely to develop eating disorders and secondary osteoporosis. This is actually a wrong fitness method, not a problem with fitness itself. ； If you like a soft and weak body and don't want to build muscles, that's totally fine. After all, fitness experience is a very personal matter. Some people do it for health, and some people do it to look good in clothes. There is no distinction between high and low.

To put it bluntly, these benefits are not something that is out of reach. You usually carry more than 10 kilograms of express delivery up the stairs without being out of breath, sit at work all day without soreness or back pain, and half of the people in the office catch a cold during the season and you are fine. These are the little sweetness of fitness hidden in daily life. It is like regular maintenance for your body. You can't see any difference at ordinary times, but when you really need to use it, you will know how useful it is. There is no need to listen to others saying that you must practice for two hours a day or hire a personal trainer to be called fitness. Even if you walk two extra stops after get off work every day and do shoulder and shoulder exercises for 10 minutes at home with two bottles of mineral water, as long as you move, you will feel the changes over time. Just do whatever feels comfortable.