Why Exercise Will Boost Your Self- Confidence

To determine if exercise will boost selfconfidence, we first have to know what it is. On a broad scale, selfconfidence is what we believe and actively set out to achieve, or a goal if you will. Most peoples’ mental self-confidence improves if their physical appearance improves.

Exercising improves the body in many ways. The most obvious are its health benefits, but there are more benefits that are subtler. Immediately after exercising, most of us feel good mentally due to the body releasing a hormone called endorphins and dopamine and reducing the hormones associated with stress like cortisol and adrenaline. If we mentally feel good, we have more selfconfidence. Improved Physical Appearance

Exercising over time makes up look better. Our muscles become more defined, we have less body fat, our weight is down and because we are happy with our physical appearance, we are mentally more self-confident. We have a sense that all the work we are putting into exercising is finally starting to pay off.

Increases Brain Power

Feeling Good

If our goal was to run three miles and we were able to do that, we achieved our goal. However, if our goal was set higher than what our body was able to accomplish, the “feelgood” hormones would have still been released, but our self-confidence would have taken a hit, because we failed to meet our goal. When setting goals, don’t set yourself up for failure by setting a goal so high that you have no chance of attaining it.

While it is true exercising improves one’s physical appearance, it can also make you smarter. Exercising raises both our respiratory and heart rate. Our increased rate of breathing pulls more oxygen into the lungs and exhales out more carbon dioxide. This in turn means our blood is more highly oxygenated leaving the lungs and more concentrated with carbon dioxide coming back in. By pushing more oxygen to the brain, it gets stronger too. Our mental focus increases, and we have a more “incharge” feeling, which in turn boosts our selfconfidence.

Improves Sex Life

Exercising increases stamina which can help you last longer in bed. With an improved physical appearance, a positive mental outlook and ability to “go the distance”, who would not want that? Having the sexual prowess again is a self-confidence booster by itself, let alone all of the other improvements gained from exercising.

So if your body and mental well-being is not what it used to be, start exercising. Over time, not only will your physical self-confidence return, but so will your mental outlook on life.