9 reasons to exercise.

#1 To avoid boredom.

Make use of your boring time. When you don't have anything special to do, and you're kind of bored, it's time for some exercise. Go run, in the street, or on a treadmill, go swim, play tennis, badminton, hit the gym...

#2 To feel confident and proud.

Exercising and outrunning yourself makes you feel a lot more confident and proud of yourself. After a run, or an hour of swimming, you'll feel like you're capable of great things, of things not anyone can do, and feeling more confident and proud is one of the keys to be happy and enjoy life at its fullest.

#3 To feel alive.

Now and then it's good to feel alive, and what a better way to feel alive than to feel your heartbeat, your blood running faster through your veins, your whole body asking for more resources, the sweat coming out of your pores. This is life, this is what we're living for. To feel alive, to feel the power of all the mechanisms in our body that make us stand straight up.

#4 To stay healthy.

#5 Just to enjoy.

#6 To outrun yourself.

Outrunning yourself is also an important value you should take in consideration. By outrunning yourself you'll feel better, you'll be able to reach and achieve more and more objectives you would have never thought you'd actually be able to reach.

#7 To forget your problems.

Exercising makes you focus on your effort, on what you're doing right now, synchronizing your breathe, your movements. It makes you forget all these oppressing problems you have to deal with in your everyday life, that now and then are good to just ignore and forget about.

#8 To be happy.

Doing everything said before, like outrunning yourself, staying healthy, enjoying, feeling alive, will obviously make you happy. Because all these accomplishments will have a value to you, you'll know you've done them, and you'll be happy about what you've done, about your body, yourself, you'll be happier than if you hadn't done what you've done.

#9 To motivate yourself.

After an intense physical exercise, the work you might have to do will represent a lot less than you thought it would be. An hour of running is a lot harder than sorting papers, or working on the computer, or doing stuff you don't necessarily feel like doing, but that you have to do. So go for a run, then start working. You'll see, it's not that of a big deal.