Why did I start?

No, it wasn’t any love for the rippling muscles that led me sniffing for the gym. It was plain curiosity to find out what keeps those people breaking their backs on those iron machines and weights! Later on, as I found the long smooth cylinders which I called arms dividing themselves into structures called biceps and triceps… ooh! I started loving the gym!

Now I continue with the gym because of the many benefits associated with exercises that I came to know of. I get a clean cut figure, no more love handles around my waist, a V-shaped chest, shapely arms, toned up muscles, increased strength, more self-confidence (is all aspects of life… including when approaching specimen of the opposite sex!) and a freshness and energy that lasts throughout the day!

The long list above is reason enough to keep me pumping iron everyday. But there are several other unseen benefits associated too, which come as free gifts with the product you buy!

You condition your heart to get used to the levels of exercise you perform – lowering your risk for any heart attack later in life! Since your heart needs to work that much harder to supply necessary energy and oxygen to your muscles when you work out your hardest, it starts training itself as you go on training yourself!! So when you climb up from 20 kg to 30 kg, or 2 continuous sets to 3, or 20 minutes to thirty minutes, you heart raises its capacity to pump…umm…let’s say from 2 liters to 3 liters of blood in the same time!! So, when you are old and if you grow garbage that blocks your arteries, your heart would still have the capacity to pump more blood after an attack than what it would have if you hadn’t exercised. Also, since exercise needs energy, it eats up all the bad, bad cholesterol that would create the garbage in your arteries in the first place! So less chance of an attack!

Same way, since exercise eats up a lot of energy, it eats up a lot of glucose from our blood – good news for diabetics who struggle hard to lower their blood glucose! They say insulin is the laborer that shoves in spade-fuls of glucose into the cells that are hungry. If your cells aren’t as hungry as they should be, you will need more insulin than normal to push the glucose down their throats. Exercise also makes the muscles and other cells hungrier for more energy, so they chomp up all the glucose with only a little help from insulin. This reduces the need for insulin in diabetics!