Why is exercise so important?

Why is exercise so important?

John Spencer Ellis (Author, TV Show Host, Trainer and CEO, National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association) gives expert video advice on: What is the most common fitness mistake?; What is the difference between fitness and physical activity?; Why is exercise so important? and more...

Exercise is important because our bodies were meant to move. They were not meant to sit behind the desk and sit behind the steering wheel on a busy freeway. They were meant to move, and not only front-and-back and up-and-down, but in rotational patterns as well, and that's why functional training, for example, is so important. Our bodies were designed to move, and because of all these modern conveniences we have, we've stopped moving the way we were intended to move. Obviously it is detrimental - look at what's happened to our society in the last thirty years.