How Your Exercise Can Be Holistic Therapy

Exercise is medicine, and it has therapeutic effects onenables our exercise work-outs to provide therapy to
our bodies. If you build your exercise practice on aour bodies.
holistic foundation, it can provide therapy to your wholeFirst, cardio work-outs offer a boost to the blood flow
body.that cannot be matched by stretching or strengthening.
Three Elements of Exercise.Neither yoga's hand-stands, nor supersets in
An exercise program must include these threebodybuilding, can offer the whole-body effects on
elements to be considered holistic. You must practicecirculation (and lymphatic immunity) that can be found in
cardiovascular conditioning, strength-training, anda quick jog or brisk walk. Furthermore, aerobic activities
stretching.lasting just 20 minutes or more have long-lasting
If you favor one of these types of exercise, theneffects.
some part of your body is not getting the movementNext, strengthening, also called resistance-training or
that it needs. There are health benefits that are uniqueweight-lifting, has its own unique qualities. Our lifestyles
to each type of exercise. And practicing one type oftoday are especially deprived of its therapy, as
exercise a lot will not compensate for a lack in otheroverworked muscles become injury-prone. With
areas.proper strengthening, we can easily erase many of the
Holistic health from elemental exercise.strains felt from our workloads and habits.
As mentioned above, each of the elements ofLast, stretching, or flexibility training, provides its own
exercise offers unique health benefits. By skimping onset of health benefits. If your practice includes yoga,
one, we deprive our bodies of those. But by practicingyou might also include some meditation. So, your mind
all three, we are guaranteed great health because weexpands along with your muscles and joints.
treat all of our body's systems. This holistic approach