PCOS: How Exercise Can Help

Hello! Gemma the exercise guru here!

We are abundant with information about how exercise can help women with PCOS. You can read about scientific studies and lots of statistics and now, through little old me ... here is the “how to ... exercise!!” If you want to start exercising at home, in the gym, in the park, at work or just fit exercise into your daily lifestyle, I can teach you how! Read on

Let us quickly cover the basic "sciency" bit first. We all know that exercise can benefit women with PCOS as it improves insulin resistance and can help you maintain a steady weight, make you feel great, protect your heart and so on.

When you exercise (amongst so many other amazing things) you help your insulin metabolism work effectively which in turn will reduce your testosterone levels and all the PCOS symptoms associated with a high testosterone level.

It also is the greatest way to burn off belly fat, have awesome looking skin, balance hormones, feel on top of the world and live the life of your dreams! The most important thing that I have noticed is exercise helps make you into a positive person!

Exercise is fun and exhilarating. You have to find exercises that you like, that way you will unconsciously add them into your lifestyle. Personally, I love to go to the gym, but that is me -- everyone is different!! I have trained for years and it is my "hobby". But I also love to walk my gorgeous puppy, go bicycling with my hubby to be and occasionally go for a jog! Exercise is my life and it can be yours too!

The most significant thing I can tell you about exercise is your attitude towards it. So many people enjoy mountains of exercise on a daily basis -- so what makes you different? Everyone can exercise. How? -- By using your mind.

Do you realize how powerful you are? We are the most powerful magnets in the world, all instilled with the ability to have everything we want through positive thinking.

If your opinion of exercise used to be negative – say out loud, “I love to exercise!” The more you say it and believe it, the more you will want to go for a walk, jog, bicycle ride, etc. The more you say it and do it, the more you realize that you DO enjoy it. When you exercise, you release a whole load of happy hormones that in turn make you feel great and get fit!

Whatever it is that you are doing right now (other than reading this...) get up and do "something!" Whatever it is ... just move!! If you add "something" for thirty minutes each day to your daily routine, that can add up to 500 calories that you can burn off each day without even stepping in a gym car park!!

Stay healthy!

Gemma

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