Exercise is an important thing for living a healthy and happy life, because regularly doing exercise will boost the body function and also protect the body from various health issues. Doing exercise will help to keep a person’s physical fitness very well, it also helps to refresh the brain activity to keep the function well and good. Every year April 18’th is marked as National Exercise day around the world, to know about the importance of exercise. Unfortunately, several people are not well known about the importance of doing exercise regularly, that’s why they are not interested in exercise.
Types of Exercises
There are so many types of exercises to keep the body strong and fit.
- Aerobic exercise
- Pilates
- Walking
- Cycling
- Swimming
- Running
- Jogging
- Jump rope
Most of the above mentioned types of exercise are based on physical activity such as aerobic, muscle strengthening, and bone strengthening. Basically people should know some important movements while doing exercise. Commonly these movements are seven types, they are Pull, Push, Squat, Lunge, Hinge, Rotation and Gait. While people perform all of these movements, they are able to stimulate all of the major muscle groups in their body.
In this article, I will explain in detail about the simple exercise health benefits. Yes, one of the most simple and easy exercises is breathing. While doing this exercise, people should not need to make a huge effort in their body. People should know about the health benefits of breathing exercise.
Health benefits of Breathing Exercise
Before going to know about the health benefits of breathing, people should know the types of breathing exercise.
- Pursed lip breathing
- Alternate Nostril Breathing
- Buteyko method
- Lion’s Breath
- Mindfulness
- Shallow breathing
- Equal breathing
- Resonant breathing
- Sitali breath
- Bee Breath
- Resonance breathing
- Paradoxical breathing
- Yogic breathing
- Circular breathing
- Paced breathing
- Coherent Breathing
- Breath focus
- Abdomen breathing
- Wim Hof breathing
People can follow the above mentioned breathing types based on their comfort.
Weight Loss
Millions of people want to reduce their body weight to keep a slim and beautiful body. So, they are following several methods to achieve their weight loss goal. Regularly doing breathing exercise will help to improve the digestion process and reduce fat in the body. Breathing will stimulate digestive fire of the body and if done over the period of time increase the body’s metabolism and burn fat slowly.
Reduce Stress
Modern days people are suffering from stress due to workstyle, financial situation and some other family situation. Heavy stress will open a door for several health issues in the body. Stress is also linked with anxiety and depression. Doing regular breathing will help to reduce stress, anxiety and depression in the body. Early morning breathing exercise will stimulate the brain function and keep the brain very active that whole day. So, it will avoid the formation of stress, anxiety and depression in the body.
Improves Digestion Process
Digestion process is very important to keep the body healthy. But some people are facing constipation problems due to a few reasons. But Inhale fresh air slowly and deeply through your nose into your abdomen to push your hand up. Breathe only as deeply as feels very gentle and comfortable. Your chest should always remain still or move a little bit. Exhale that air through your mouth, making a quiet, relaxing whooshing sound as you gently blow out. This will help to improve the digestion process very well because Slow and deep breathing can relax muscles in the intestinal tract to improve absorption.
Exercise Improves Skin Health
People always want to keep their skin glowing and beautiful, especially women who are very sensitive in this matter. Breathing technique that supports to eliminate blocked energy channels called nadis. Alternate nostril breathing supports purification of the blood and oxygenation is better resulting in a natural facial skin glow without using any cosmetics product. Regularly doing this exercise will keep a young look and delay the aging process.
Exercise Reduces Joints Pain
Joint pain causes severe pain in the joints, it will affect several activities. When a person includes breathing in his/her routine life, it elevates the level of oxygen in the cells and has a positive effect on the joints. It makes the muscles and joints stronger to prevent the chances of wear and tear. Breathing exercises reduce the strain of physical exercise and encourage the ability of the body to handle intense physical workouts.
Breathing Exercise technique
People can do breathing exercises on a flat ground or chair. Doing breathing exercises while sitting in the chair is a little comfortable and easy.
To perform this breathing exercise while sitting in a chair:
- First to Sit comfortably in the chair, with your knees bent and your shoulders, head and neck relaxed.
- Place one hand on your upper chest and the other just below your rib cage; This will allow you to feel your diaphragm move as you breathe very easily without any trouble.
- Breathe little slowly through your nose so that your stomach moves out against your hand. Don’t take your hand from your chest, it should remain as still as possible.
- Tighten your stomach muscles for a few minutes, so that your stomach moves back in, as you exhale through pursed lips. Don’t take the hand from your upper chest, it must remain as still as possible.
In the starting stage, people should practice this exercise for five to 10 minutes about three to four times per day. Then later onwards, Gradually increase the amount of time you spend doing this breathing exercise, and perhaps even improve the effort of the exercise by placing a book on your abdomen.