Effects of exercise on PIES

Physical

Exercise keeps your body healthy.
It helps you to loose weight, lowering your chance of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease.
Regular exercise lowers your blood pressure, which means that your risk of having a heart attack or heart disease is lower.
Exercise strengthens your muscles and bones. This slows the loss of bone density when you get older.
It strengthens your immune system.

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Exercise improves the structure and function of your brain: it keeps your thinking and learning skills sharp.
It also improves your sleep, meaning that you can concentrate better and have a sharper memory.
It enhances your cognitive function.

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Exercise works as an anti-anxiety treatment. It reduces stress, tension and interrupts the constant flow of worries.
By reducing stress, meaning that the physical symptons of stress are decreased and reduces an individual's chance of experiencing negetive emotions (anger, fear, fustration, etc). Therefore, it lowers their chance of developing depression.
It also acts as a coping mechanism- it increases an individual's resilience and means they won't turn to drugs or alcohol to cope.

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By going to a gym or an exercise club, an individual is more likely meet someone sharing their passion for exercise. From this new friend, they may learn about their other hobbies and increase their intellectual development.
If they going jogging with a friends or family, it will increase their relationship with them. This may give the individual something to look forward to, increasing their quality of life.
Exercise makes them happier, which will make the individual nicer to be around.
Meeting all these new people and having strong relationships means it lowers an individual's chance of becoming socially isolated because their friends and family won't abandon them in their time of need.

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