The Zen Of Workout: 10 Reasons You Will Be Much More Attractive If You Exercise | Physical activities slideshows | Well Being center

You’re Healthier, So You Both Look And Feel Better

When you train you're healthier, and people can see that. We're genetically predisposed to feel more attracted to people who look more obviously healthy, and when you feel better you look better - and you know it, which makes you feel better. It’s not just physical either. When you train, you start to take control over your body and the extra confidence shows, changing the way people interact with you and beginning an upward spiral of good results coming from good results. The sooner you get started the sooner you’ll feel and see the benefits!

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Perspiration Can Help Improve Some Skin Conditions

Sweating is the body's mechanism for keeping cool. But some dermatologists believe because sweating opens the pores, it can help with skin hygiene and contribute to helping with some skin conditions. When we sweat, more than just water is lost. We lose some salts, principally sodium and potassium salts but some others too, and some pheromones (scent markers), as well as accumulated toxins and some dirt from pores. Sweating is complicated, but the best overall advice is that it's good to sweat as long as you wash it off afterwards. Leaving sweat lying on the surface of your skin can exacerbate some skin conditions, especially eczema and psoriasis, probably because of the high salt content of sweat. Cover affected areas with barrier cream or wash off quickly.

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Circulation And Skin Tone Improve With Exercise

Training improves your skin tone by boosting your circulation. The surface of your skin is made of dead skin cells, replaced from underneath. Better circulation means faster, better quality replacement, meaning better looking skin. The surface of your skin will appear fresher and younger, but there's more: your skin will become more elastic as well, resulting in a younger-looking complexion. That's partly a consequence of increased production of human growth hormone, and partly the result of better blood and lymph circulation to the skin, removing waste faster and increasing blood flow and nutrient delivery to the living tissue beneath the epidermis.

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Exercise Improves Skin's Appearance And Delays Wrinkles

Wrinkles are a fact of life. But they can be reduced and delayed. Apart from sunscreen and a big hat (and not smoking!), the best thing you can do to keep your face wrinkle free is to exercise. Exercise stimulates the cardiovascular system, improving oxygen uptake, your blood’s ability to carry oxygen and your heart and vascular systems’ ability to move blood around your body. The result is better oxygenation at the cellular level which makes your body look and feel younger. You’ll also notice greater elasticity and better muscle and tissue tone under the skin, which means that skin may look better even if wrinkles are present.

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Exercise Reduces Water Retention And Bloating

Exercise doesn't just improve the circulation of your blood. Other substances, like lymph, are circulated by muscular contractions, meaning if you don't move their circulation is sluggish. Add in the systemic inflammation and swelling around joints that's known to be a result of lack of exercise, and you have a recipe for bloating and discomfort, puffiness and both feeling and looking heavy and tired. Once you start training, you can expect these symptoms to disappear or improve, giving you a younger and healthier looking body.

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Training Will Help With Nail And Hair Growth

Training boosts circulation bodywide, including to the hair follicles, resulting in more hair growth and better quality hair growth. By increasing output of human growth hormone it also tends to make nails and hair grow faster and the improved transport of nutrients around the body with better circulation means hair will grow in thicker and shinier, though follicles that don't produce hair any more usually won't start up again (sorry guys!).

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Exercise Boosts Libido And Increases Sex Drive

Training tends to boosts sex drive. First, that's caused by increased testosterone production. While in men testosterone is produced by the testes, in women it's produced in the adrenal glands and is a vital component of a healthy hormonal balance, responsible for sex drive amongst other things. Increased testosterone production in women won't cause 'manly' characteristics to develop, since the adrenals only produce about a tenth as much testosterone as the testes. What it will do is make you feel more energetic and goal oriented - and more sexual. That's a boost for everyone, right? Training boosts sex drive in other ways too. As it makes you feel more attractive it will also help you get over issues about your body that stop you enjoying desire. And as it makes you more confident and relaxed, you'll find your sexual appetite is rekindled!

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Experience A Boost To Your Mood And Confidence

Training can boost your mood in many ways. Endorphins will often start to kick in between twenty and forty minutes into a session, making you feel exultant and relaxed and adding to the sense of satisfaction you feel at completing a training session. That's one short term effect. And of course, in the long term, looking and feeling more attractive is a great confidence booster too. However, there's the effect of meeting training goals too. Whether that's adding more weight to the bar, getting more volume done, running further or swimming more lengths, setting your sights on something and getting it done means you'll be happier and more confident, looking forward to smashing through your next target - and that change in your mod will show!

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Improves Your Sleep Quality And Makes You Feel More Rested When You Wake

Many of us don't sleep well. Many of us don't exercise enough. It could be coincidence, but study after study shows that it's not. It's anything but. We don't sleep well because we don't exercise, it's often as simple as that. Training can make a huge difference to how much sleep we get and how good quality that sleep is. You can kiss goodbye to insomnia and waking up tired, and say hello to feeling energetic and rediscovering feeling creative as your brain finally gets the rest it needs. That shows in everything you do, improves the way you look and move, and nothing makes you more attractive than looking healthy and alert.

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Low-Impact Workouts For Beauty Benefits With Reduced Risk

Low impact doesn't mean 'not hard,' and it doesn't mean endless low-intensity cardio sessions either. Impact in this case means impact; you hitting things and things hitting you. If you're fragile around the joints, high impact training can add up to pain and dysfunction over time, and if you're not, it's a good way to get there. If you want to do high impact training, try to support it with a lot of low impact training to keep your joints strong enough to take the beating. If you're training for health and beauty rather than for a sporting or professional goal then there's a strong motivation to leave impact training to a minimum. Rather, look for training like swimming, learn to lift well for strength, and use elliptical crosstrainers rather than running on a treadmill.