Regular exercise is important whatever your age. Frequent activity brings a wide range of benefit for your whole body. It strengthens your muscles. Build and maintains bone density, protects your joints and improves general posture, flexibility and resilience. Exercise is essential to ensure that your mind and body function healthy and happily throughout your life. Muscle, bone and joint benefits Regular exercise both maintains and improves the health strength and resilience of your bones muscles and joints. Different forms of activity bring different benefits some improve strength or flexibility, other promote cardiovascular health. Most physical activities bring a combination of these benefits, in varying degrees but it is useful to understand the main ways in which your body responds to exercise Strengthening activities Movements that place a greater than usual physical load on your body , such as those in weight training or during slow, sustained activities such as yoga, force your bones and muscles to adapt to your bones and muscles weaken, making it harder to perform every day activities and increasing your risk of fractures. Strong muscles also protect your joints. During exercise muscles not only pull on bones to produce movement they also work with other muscles to support and stabilize joints. Balanced muscles and stable joints are key to eliminating the poor posture that can place stress on your body. Most physical activities place some sort of load on your bones and muscles simply moving your body weight against gravity provides a degree of resistance. Lifting weights is one of the most effective ways to improve musculoskeletal strength, but walking, running and stepping are all weight bearing activities too. Exercises that involve a sharp impact, such as striking a ball with a racket or landing on the ground after jumping, also put stress on and strengthen your bones and to some extent, your muscles. #HealthAwareness #QualityHealthcare #TrustedCare #PatientEducation