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May 4, 2018

How exercise can improve work productivity

People tend to focus on the physical benefits of exercise such as staying in shape or losing weight. However, regular exercise has many other benefits to a healthy life, including improving work productivity. A few benefits of exercise includes decreasing stress, increasing energy, improving concentration and productivity, faster learning, etc. Experts recommend exercising at least five days a week for 30 minutes. Here are a few of the benefits and how they can help improve your work productivity:

Decrease stress

Exercise helps to clear your mind and decrease stress going on at work or in your personal life. Regular exercise can help give you an outlet to better deal with your work stress. When stress is relieved, you’re able to work more effectively and efficiently.

Increase energy

Exercise can help boost your energy and alertness at work. Having more energy keeps you more awake and alert, ready to take on new projects at work.

Improve concentration

When exercising, blood flows to your brain and can help improve your concentration and productivity at work. Exercise helps clear your mind so that you can go back to work and better concentrate on the projects at hand.

Improve physical and mental health

Keeping your body and mind healthy will help your career. Exercise not only helps you to reduce risk for different medical conditions and decrease risk of injury at your job but can help give you the energy to meet any physical demands of your job. Exercise can help decrease depression or anxiety and releases serotonin, which helps you feel better and less stressed at work. Happier, healthier employees will perform the best. Take time each day to improve your health and productivity at work through exercising. Comment and share with us the benefits exercise has had on your career.
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