Sleep is very important for your health and physical and mental performance. Active people have better, deeper, uninterrupted sleep. They usually need less sleep, because quality of their sleep is much better than the sleep of inactive people. Inactivity causes bad sleep. Bad sleep causes obesity and decreased immunity system. Every vital function in your […]

To be active day in and day out means to have more energy for everything. It’s mostly those fit people who tell you after exhausting hike, all day skiing or intensive tennis or soccer game : What are we doing tonight? Where are we going next? Do you want to go dancing tonight? You think […]

Inactivity affects just about everything: brain, heart, blood vessels, bones, liver, gut, sleep, anxiety, mood, self esteem, and your body’s ability to process sugar. Inactivity leads to excess abdominal fat. One third of cancers of the colon, kidney, and digestive tract are caused by being inactive. Being inactive causes diabetes and diabetes causes impotence, blindness, […]

Bone is like any other part of your body, if you stress it, it responds, it becomes stronger. If you don’t stress it, the ongoing balance between bone buildup and breakdown shifts toward net loss of thickness and with that flexibility. The result is – weak bone you can easily break. Strength training can make […]

People, who are active are less likely to develop depression. In study of nearly 2,000 residents of Alameda County, California, people who were more active were nearly 20 percent less likely to be diagnosed with depression over the next 5 years than less active residents. Being physically active helps if you are already depressed. More […]