Summary: The Benefits Of Exercise

Exercise brings much more benefit than people usually think about. We have spent massive time together with exercise from birth of the species to contemporary civilization. However, today, in the national survey of daily exercise habits of Japanese people conducted by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2015, only 37.8% of men and 27.3% of women took regular exercise that is more than thirty minutes, twice per week and for more than one year despite the fact that a number of research studies reported many kinds of gains from exercise. Professor John Ratey said that most people often think exercise helps to release tension of muscle, decrease stress and increase the amount of endorphin in brain (8). However, those are not enough to account for essential benefits of workout. Then, what are those remarkable effects of workout?

This paper will mainly focus on astonishing interests of exercise presented in current research and a way to take it into everyday life of people, especially the 62.2% of men and 72.7% of women in Japan who are not exercising enough. Such new information may help those who lack habitual workout to engage in new life with enough exercise and plenty of benefit. This paper will introduce foundation of exercise in terms of its current situation, types and history. Then attention shifts to essential point, remarkable and physical benefits of fitness in terms of structural changes in brain, effects on mental illness and on learning or academic performances. Last section will explore how much people should take exercise in order to get those benefits. Finally this paper will be closed by section of