Research overwhelmingly shows that regular exercise lowers the risk for many diseases, enhances the functioning of virtually every physiological system in the human body, and improves psychological well-being. Unfortunately, fewer than 40 percent of Americans exercise enough to experience significant health benefits. Here is a list of reason that indicate 101 positive reasons for you to exercise regularly. It is well-documented that exercise:

#1. Helps you to more effectively manage stress.
#2. Helps you to lose weight - especially fat weight.
#3. Improves the functioning of your immune system.
#4. Reduces medical and healthcare expenses.
#5. Reduces your risk of getting heart disease.
#6. Increases your level of muscle strength.
#7. Improves athletic performance.
#8. Can help relieve the pain of tension headaches.
#9. Allows you to consume greater quantities of food and still maintain caloric balance.
#10. Helps you sleep easier and better.
#11. Enhances sexual desire, performance, and satisfaction.
#12. Reduces the risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure).
#13. Increases the density and breaking strength of bones.
#14. Improves your physical appearance.
#15. Increases circulating levels of HDL (good) cholesterol.
#16. Assists in efforts to stop smoking.
#17. Helps you to relax.
#18. Can help improve short-term memory in older individuals.
#19. Helps to maintain weight loss - unlike dieting, alone.
#20. Helps relieve many of the common discomforts of pregnancy.
#21. Reduces your anxiety level.
#22. Helps control blood pressure in people with hypertension.
#23. Protects against "creeping obesity" (the slow steady weight gain that occurs as you age).
#24. Reduces vulnerability to various cardiac dysrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms).
#25. Improves the likelihood of survival from a myocardial infarction (heart attack).
#26. Helps to overcome jet lag.
#27. Slows the rate of joint degeneration in people with osteoarthritis.
#28. Lowers your resting heart rate.
#29. Helps to boost creativity.
#30. Reduces circulating levels of triglycerides.
#31. Helps the body resist upper respiratory tract infections.
#32. Increases your anaerobic threshold, allowing you to work or exercise longer at a higher level, before a significant amount of lactic acid builds up.
#33. Helps to preserve lean body tissue.
#34. Improves ability to recover from physical exertion.
#35. Helps speed recovery from chemotherapy treatments.
#36. Increases ability to supply blood to the skin for cooling.
#37. Increases the thickness of the cartilage in your joints.
#38. Gives you more energy to meet the demands of daily life, and provides you with a reserve to meet the demands of unexpected emergencies.
#39. Increases your level of muscle endurance.
#40. Helps prevent intestinal ulcers.
#41. Increases the density and breaking strength of ligaments and tendons.
#42. Improves posture.
#43. Increases your maximal oxygen uptake.
#44. Helps you to maintain your resting metabolic rate.
#45. Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer.
#46. Increases your tissues' responsiveness to the actions of insulin helping to better control blood sugar, particularly if you are a Type II diabetic.
#47. Helps to relieve constipation.
#48. Expands blood plasma volume.
#49. Reduces the risk of developing prostate cancer.
#50. Helps to combat substance abuse.
#51. Helps to alleviate depression.
#52. Increases your ability to adapt to cold environments.
#53. Helps you maintain proper muscle balance.
#54. Reduces the rate and severity of medical complications associated with hypertension.
#55. Helps to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms.
#56. Lowers your heart rate response to submaximal physical exertion.
#57. Helps to alleviate low-back pain.
#58. Helps to reduce the amount of insulin required to control blood sugar levels in Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetics.
#59. Improves mental alertness.
#60. Improves respiratory muscle strength and muscle endurance - particularly important for asthmatics.
#61. Reduces your risk of having a stroke.
#62. Helps you to burn excess calories.
#63. Increases your cardiac reserve.
#64. Improves coronary (heart) circulation.
#65. Offsets some of the negative side effects of certain antihypertensive drugs.
#66. Increases your stroke volume (the amount of blood the heart pumps with each beat).
#67. Improves your self-esteem.
#68. Reduces your susceptibility for coronary thrombosis (a clot in an artery that supplies the heart with blood).
#69. Reduces your risk of developing Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes.
#70. Reduces the risk of developing breast cancer.
#71. Improves mental cognition (a short-term effect only).
#72. Maintains or improves joint flexibility.
#73. Improves your glucose tolerance.
#74. Reduces workdays missed due to illness.
#75. Reduces the viscosity of your blood.
#76. Enhances your muscles' abilities to extract oxygen from your blood.
#77. Increases your productivity at work.
#78. Reduces your likelihood of developing low-back problems.
#79. Improves your balance and coordination.
#80. Improves your body's ability to use fat for energy during physical activity.
#81. Provides protection against injury.
#82. Decreases (by 20 to 30 percent) the need for antihypertensive medication, if you are hypertensive.
#83. Improves your decision-making abilities.
#84. Helps reduce and prevent the immediate symptoms of menopause (hot flashes, sleep disturbances, irritability) and decrease the long-term risks of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and obesity.
#85. Helps to relieve and prevent "migraine headache attacks."
#86. Reduces the risk of endometriosis (a common cause of infertility).
#87. Helps to retard bone loss as you age, thereby reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
#88. Helps decrease your appetite (a short-term effect only).
#89. Improves pain tolerance and mood if you suffer from osteoarthritis.
#90. Helps prevent and relieve the stresses that cause carpal tunnel syndrome.
#91. Makes your heart a more efficient pump.
#92. Helps to decrease left ventricular hypertrophy (a thickening of the walls of the left ventricle) in people with hypertension.
#93. May be protective against the development of Alzheimer's disease.
#94. Improves your mood.
#95. Helps to increase your overall health awareness.
#96. Reduces the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.
#97. Helps you to maintain an independent lifestyle.
#98. Reduces the level of abdominal obesity - a significant health-risk factor.
#99. Increases the capacity of the lungs, enhancing the exchange of oxygen from your lungs to your blood.
#100. Improves heat tolerance.
#101. Improves your overall quality of life.

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