Lot’s of people associate the feeling of exhaustion with the fact that they’ve done too much, but this isn’t always the case.  Of course if you jogged five miles, helped a new neighbor move in, cleaned your house and weeded the garden all before lunch – then your feeling of exhaustion may very well be stemming from too much activity, but if you are feeling tired after the simplest of tasks then you may actually not be getting enough exercise.

When you lead a mostly sedentary life, your circulatory system won’t work nearly as well at delivering the necessary oxygen and nutrients to your system as it would if you were more active.  Regular physical activity make your body more efficient at delivering those nutrients and oxygen to your heart, lungs and brain resulting in more energy for you regardless of the activity that you are performing.

If you participate in a regular exercise program like the one offered by the Wilsonville, or if you just decide to take daily brisk walks around the Wilsonville’s beautifully landscaped grounds you’ll begin to develop a more conditioned and more efficient body that will be capable of easily getting through all of your daily tasks and chores with energy to spare.

As an added benefit, if you keep your caloric intake approximately the same after you’ve begun participating in regular exercise, you’ll begin to lose some excess weight.  This means that you’ll not only be able to get through your day’s tasks quicker and easier, but that you’ll look better doing it!

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 9:00 am and is filed under Aging Research, Thought Provoking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.