Exercise strengthens your heart, improves your circulation, keeps your muscles in tone, helps prevent osteoporosis, helps with weight control, helps hold down your blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels, and makes you look and feel better.
Exercise helps prevent disease and helps extend and improve the quality of life.
Recent studies suggest regular exercise may help prevent breast cancer. An older person who exercises regularly will have more strength, better balance and coordination, and will be better able to manage the daily living chores that allow people to remain independent. An older person who exercises will likely be more fit. Fitness is having the health, strength, endurance, and range of body movements that are needed to do physical work without becoming exhausted. A fit person can perform better and with less effort in sports and other physical activities and therefore is more likely to enjoy them.