Time Magazine ran a great article on July 4, 2016 called “The New Reasons to Exercise.” You may think of exercise solely as a way to burn calories or improve muscle tone. But in this article, author Alexandra Sifferlin points out some other lesser known benefits of regular exercise. Here in Part 1, we cover a few of them:

You may not want to be reminded but our physical fitness tends to slide as we age. This fact makes what we do to maintain or increase our fitness level increasingly important. Doing nothing is inviting trouble. In this article, we discuss a few ways that you can fight back against the aging process.