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We all know exercise comes with a lot of benefits, not just to your inner body but your body as a whole. Exercise boosts your confidence, increases your energy levels while also improving your mood. Picture this: a perfectly balanced lifestyle with work, exercise and a social life. How can we strike the balance when life is always so busy?

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We need to shift our thinking to start seeing exercise and a healthy lifestyle as essential rather than an add-on or chore. It’s a well known fact exercise and eating well contributes to a healthy and long life.

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What we should consider is how we get to that point of shifting our thinking, and how can we collectively ‘get it all together’ with the lifestyle we currently have. This is where balance comes in to play.

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When exercising we move our body in ways that we might never have before. Our body starts to build strength and you start to feel good. We start to stand up taller and our friends start noticing. Exercising causes a ripple effect in your life that makes you feel good, and you start to build ‘sexy’ confidence.

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Exercise can be as simple as grabbing a friend and going for a walk, or having a sweaty workout. The good feeling from exercise is linked to the release of serotonin in our body, it’s responsible for giving us that happy feeling and general sense of positive well being. Dopamine and oxytocin are chemicals in our brain that are also released through exercise and are typically linked to those warm and fuzzy feelings. Research has found links between dopamine and oxytocin and reduced stress and anxiety.