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Top 10 Benefits Of Living An Active Lifestyle

10 Benefits of an active lifestyle that will make you want to live a more active life

Md Mamoon Moulavi by Md Mamoon Moulavi
October 7, 2020
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Living an active lifestyle has many benefits. It can help you improve your stamina, overall body flexibility and body posture.

Moving naturally throughout the day or living an active life leaves positive impact on your cardiovascular health, muscle and on bone metabolism.

As a matter of fact ‘living an active life’ is one of the important characteristics of peoples living in all the – 5 blue zones around the world. These places are known for having higher life expectancy than the rest of the world.

In the blue zones, many people live up to 100+ years. And here it’s common to live 90+ without chronic diseases.

Below I’ll cover all the important benefits of living an active lifestyle in much more detail. And after that, I’ll share 5 quick ways to live a more active life.

So sit back. Relax, and read on…

10 Benefits Of Living An Active Lifestyle

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1. Improves your overall body fitness

When you start to live an active lifestyle, you do your daily activities differently than others.
Those activities help you to replace several sedentary lifestyle practices with active ones.

Activities like gardening, walking, hiking, exercising, swimming, cycling etc. helps you to become an active person. And it improves your body fitness.

Just changing some habits like going for a morning run/walk or completing a 20 minutes workout first thing in the morning can help you live a more active life.

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During a day an active person does several of these activities, which keeps them physically fit.

They do gardening, usual household chores, moving around the neighbourhood for work or social purposes, walking or cycling to reach short distances instead of a car, going for a walk or jogging in the morning & doing some other physically intensive activities throughout the day.

2. Boosts your energy level & stamina

If you maintain an active life, over time, your stamina will improve. And you will have a higher energy level than before.

Having a higher stamina and energy level can change the way you live.

Now you don’t need to worry about feeling tired. You can enjoy your hobbies and explore your passions in your free time. Now, you can truly spend more quality time and engage in outdoor activities with your family & friends.

Finally, you can live up to your expectations & your body will not restrain you from doing so.

3. Strengthens your immunity

Nobody likes to fall ill.

Living an active lifestyle and doing some exercises can help you improve your immunity. Having strong immunity can help you avoid many health problems. It will help you feel good and give your 100% on anything you do.

The best thing about having a high immunity power is – ‘you stop worrying and start living.’

You can get the best results if you combine an active lifestyle with adequate sleep and a healthy diet.

When you take adequate precautions, you don’t need to worry about common colds, fever and many other health-related problems.

4. Better sleep

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Dew to work or for entertainment purposes, many spend long hours sitting in front of their laptop/PC and TV.

The more time you look at a screen or sit during the day, it becomes harder for you to have a sound sleep at night.

By living an active life you will stay much more physically active throughout the day. And at the end of the day, your body will naturally become hungry for a good sleep.

You can further improve your sleep quality by going to bed at a specific time every day and limiting the use of phone, laptop, TV at night.

Reducing the use of your phone, laptop and TV 2-3 hours before you go to bed can help you fall asleep faster and have a good sleep. Give it a try and you will feel more fresh and energetic when you wake up in the morning.

5. Helps you to relax

If you are a hard-working person and take your work very seriously, then your mind always stays busy. Thus, for you, relaxing from time to time is very important. It will help your body & mind to get enough time to relax. And you will be able to get back to work and concentrate on a task faster.

Tip: Try to find some activities that you like to do. And something that also requires some physical efforts. It can be gardening, swimming or playing your favourite sports.

Exercising helps our body to secrete Endorphins. Also, known as the happy hormone.

6. Improves your body posture

Staying physically active and exercising are some of the great ways to improve your body posture.

Living an active lifestyle improves your physical fitness and strengthens muscle and bone joints. Thus it can help you improve your body posture.

Improving your body posture can help you to use your muscles and joints more efficiently. It can minimize and help you avoid joint & back pain. 

To stay away from joint pains and maintain good body flexibility, you should maintain proper body posture while doing daily activities and do workouts 3-4 times or more per week.

7. Better weight management

One of the health benefits of living an active lifestyle is – it can help you reduce and maintain healthy body weight.

Many people fail to do the required physical activities to burn the calories they gain from their meals.

Burning your unused calories is crucial if you want to maintain your weight. If you consume a lot of calories and do not do adequate exercise or physical activities, over time, your body can deposit unwanted fat. And it can affect your physical appearance.

Living an active lifestyle can help you to burn your unused calories efficiently. And it can also help you improve your metabolism.

Having an active life and exercising or running more often can help you maintain a good physique.

8. Improves your self-confidence

Living an active life keeps you away from many health problems and improves your physical appearance.

When you have good health and a nice body, you start to feel good and confident about yourself. It can improve your self-confidence and help you build a positive self-image.

Activities like running in the morning, going for a walk, hiking and cycling can help you to live a more active life.

9. Helps you spend more time outdoors

There are many good reasons and benefits of spending time in nature. To get those benefits you just need to spend 30 minutes out in nature.

As a part of an active lifestyle, you get to spend an adequate amount of time in nature. Active lifestyle activities like gardening, hiking, walking or running in the park can help you spend more time outdoors. These activities improve your physical fitness and can help you lower your stress.

10. Improves your productivity

The last benefit of an active lifestyle is it can improve your productivity.

Living an active life can have direct & indirect effects when it comes to improving productivity.

When you have an active life, naturally, it becomes your habit to complete one task or thing then jump on to the next one. You start to feel the pleasure of getting things done and you stop being lazy.

I have already mentioned – ‘living an active lifestyle improves your stamina, physical fitness and body flexibility’. So, an active person can complete many things during the day. And when you want to do all those things (as you have found the joy in doing them), you start to better manage your time and it increases your productivity.

Of Course, there are more benefits of living an active lifestyle. But these are the important ones. You can observe all these benefits of living an active lifestyle from the beginning. And you will see other direct/indirect benefits of ‘an active life’ down the road.

Below you will see a table of all the benefits of an active lifestyle I mentioned before; then you will read about 5 activities that will help you live a more active life.

10 Benefits of an active lifestyle

  1. Improves your overall body fitness
  2. Boosts your energy level & stamina
  3. Strengthens your immunity
  4. Better sleep
  5. Helps you to relax
  6. Improves your body posture
  7. Better weight management
  8. Improves your self-confidence
  9. Helps you spend more time outdoors
  10. Improves your productivity

5 Best Physical Activities to Live a More Active Life

Running: One of the best ways you can live a more active lifestyle is by going for a run in the morning. 15-20 minutes of running in the morning can increase your physical fitness, burn your unused calories, and improve your body flexibility.

Walking: If you can manage some time, walking 30-40 minutes in the evening/morning can improve your cardiovascular health and help you to maintain an active life.

If you run or do exercises during the day you can walk for 15-20 minutes.

Gardening: If you are into gardening then there’s good news for you. Gardening is one of the best ways to destress and increase your physical activeness. Plus you get to keep all the beautiful flowers of your garden and enjoy organically grown fruits and vegetables.

Cycling: The best thing about cycling is you don’t need any extra time for it. You can ride a bicycle to go to your nearby market, coffee shop and to go short distances for miscellaneous work. Best of all – it’s Eco friendly and lowers your carbon footprint.

Average passenger vehicle emits about 411 grams of CO2 per 1 mile or 1.609 km.

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Physical exercise: When you have less time and want to live an active life, then exercising can give you the most value out of your limited time. It’s easier to exercise regularly when you make it a habit. Start with just exercising for 20 minutes.
Once it improves your stamina you will naturally increase the time and look forward to trying different types of exercises.

In this category, you can also learn martial arts. It can improve your physical strength and you will learn a new skill. Also, it’s useful in terms of self-defence.

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