If you work out regularly, you know how good your skin feels after exercise. It can actually tingle. If you don’t exercise often, you can see the results in someone who’s just visited the gym – they have a ‘glow’.
But the tingling and glowing aren’t just a good feeling or pleasant side-effect of exercise. There are produce by some of the effects that exercise has on your body; effects that help get rid of blemishes, reduce wrinkles and that generally help your skin be healthy and look its best.
1. Flushes Your Pores
Acne affects people of all ages and skin types. Unless there is an underlying medical condition that causes the acne, one of the best ways to keep it in check is by keeping your pores free of dirt and grime. When you exercise, the sweat your body produces literally flushes out anything that might be clogging your pores – and reduces your blemishes.
2. Increases Circulation
Your blood brings much-needed nutrients and oxygen to your skin to make it healthy, strong and glowing. The increase in heart rate during exercise actually pushes blood even closer to the surface of the skin (it’s why you look red after you exercise) and faster breathing increases the oxygen content of that blood. It’s like a triple benefit for your skin: more blood, with more oxygen, gets closer to your skin.
3. Stress Reduction
Stress is linked to a host of skin-aging problems, including flakiness, acne and wrinkles. Not only does exercise get your mind off your worries, it produces endorphins which are known to reduce stress.
4. Muscle Tone
Exercise improves your muscle tone, even if that’s not why you exercise. That toning helps your skin look smoother too.
Keeping your skin looking its best is the result of a combination of factors. But exercise not only promotes better, younger looking skin, it improves your overall health too.