FIT Rx Fall 2014: Registration is Open!
Did you know that exercise is medicine? According to the American College of Sports Medicine 2011 Position Stand, exercise can help to alleviate or eliminate many conditions and chronic diseases that we face today.
For example, exercise can:
- decrease the risk of all cause mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality
- improve glucose utilization, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes
- improve blood cholesterol, blood pressure, inflammatory markers, and metabolic syndrome
- decrease levels of total body fat, abdominal body fat, and liver fat
- improve cognitive function, the stress response, depression, and anxiety
- reduce the risk for osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
- improve immune defense
- increase endurance, strength, flexibility, postural stability, and balance
Importantly, many of these improvements occur even in the absence of body weight reduction.
A single bout of exercise can lead to benefits that may last for hours or several days. So exercising regularly will yield the greatest amount of benefit, particularly when combined with dietary improvements.
Are you interested in starting an exercise program? Do you need to make your current exercise program more interesting or effective?
To learn more or to register for the Fall 2014 FIT Rx program, please contact me via email at kelly.frazier@furman.edu.