ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BODYBUILDING
By David Gentle

Exercise is the best insurance against disease or sickness.  Healthy exercise will build you up a fund of resistance which can help you to repel disease and germs, to which the human body is prone.

Exercise aids in preventing obesity and its related diseases.  Exercise makes the blood course through the body, curing sluggish circulation, which is often the cause of illness, and can help prevent some of the conditions which lead to coronary heart diseases.

Graduated exercise improves the functions of all the internal organs, activating the glands, making them more effective, and builds organic strength.

There will be noticeable improvement in the way you feel when you exercise making the blood course through every cell of the body, taking with it all the materials needed to repair and rebuild up the tissues.

Exercise OVERCOMES fatigue, as the increased circulation aids the body to remove the lactic acid and other fatigue poisons from within the body.  Exercise provides a diversion away from your day to day worries and this in itself aids the mind and emotions time to rest and regain positive thoughts and feelings.

Exercise benefits the body in the fact that it teaches the muscles to co-ordinate perfectly with each other.  Well planned exercise has been proven to have a REJUVENATING effect, preserving the physical characteristics of youth, preventing premature ageing...

A fundamental physiological law is that the functional efficient of any organ system improves with use, and loses it efficiency with dis-use.  So...."USE IT OR LOSE IT".... remember LIFE IS MOVEMENT....

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