Everyone knows the importance of physical exercise for health. But just a few days ago, new research emerged on the relationship between physical activity and the possibility of cellular and molecular changes in the body.
Running, walking, or training at the gym… whatever the activity, physical exercise truly helps improve both physical and mental health! As an essential element of everyone's well-being, it's important to “listen” to the body's signals, knowing how to identify what it needs, ensuring that physical exercise adjusts to the athletes' needs.
But are the molecular changes that occur during physical activity well known?
According to Visão magazine, a team of researchers used a sample of young adult rats to discover the effects that physical activity induces in the body. The team from the "Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium" (also known as MoTrPAC) employed a series of laboratory techniques to analyze the molecular changes occurring during eight weeks of intense exercise.
The research shows that all tested body tissues respond to training, totaling over 35,000 biological molecules that respond and adapt to endurance exercise over time, including tissues from organs not typically associated with exercise. What seems to have raised great interest were the widespread differences between male and female organisms, affecting the brain, adrenal glands, lungs, and adipose tissue.
Although the experiment was conducted on rats, the investigation opens doors for more research in humans. The study's conclusions highlight the need to include athletes of both sexes in future research to fully understand the role of physical exercise in health. This study has already opened other avenues, as its knowledge will guide researchers in analyzing data from another study currently being conducted on humans about how the body responds to physical exercise in a broader sense with various parameters over a longer time.
Answering the question that titles this article:
👉 Physical exercise is good for health because it doesn't only impact muscles: it positively influences other body organs, regulating the immune system and assisting in controlling cardiovascular diseases or liver conditions. Yes, the study found that even the liver, which is not an organ involved in exercise, undergoes positive changes that can improve health and have implications for developing treatments of non-alcoholic liver diseases.
Thus, it's possible to say that physical exercise is a way to activate the entire body, with positive impacts at all levels without exception.
How to create a training routine that is easy to maintain?
Despite dozens of Fitness Professionals and ongoing studies emphasizing the importance of physical exercise, the truth is many athletes still struggle to maintain beneficial training routines.
Often, it's not due to lack of commitment but rather a lack of strategy definition. Therefore, if you are coaching an athlete, here are some tips.
👉 Set priorities
Defining what is most important regarding physical exercise could be the key to creating a training routine! Discuss with your athlete their goals: losing weight, gaining muscle mass, improving cardiovascular endurance, reducing stress, or simply being more active.
These priorities will define and assist in creating the training routine!
👉 Plan
The importance of having a Training Plan is essential to ensure consistency. Your help as a Personal Trainer in planning can be fundamental since the training plan guides everything needed to achieve the goals, from duration and frequency to intensity.
👉 Flexibility
Things don't always go as planned! And that's okay! What matters is knowing how to adjust schedules and training whenever necessary, adapting it to our routine and unforeseen events. The focus is on ensuring no failure, keeping openness for, for example, shorter or different exercise routines, adjusting the training if feeling more tired, or reevaluating it.
Remember every athlete is unique, and physical exercise should be a moment for them to feel good about themselves, not a “punishment”: feeling good during training is also a fundamental step for a successful routine.
Final Considerations
Certainly, many studies are still needed to understand the true extent of physical exercise's impact on our body. But from what is known and all the positive changes affecting athletes' bodies and minds, physical exercise becomes a tool to help well-being and health.
At BOOMFIT, this is what drives us every day: making people happier through physical exercise. So if you're a professional and need support in creating or renovating your gym or fitness space, talk to us: we have a portfolio of equipment and accessories to help you in this mission!
Happy training!
