How Can You Transform Your Sedentary Lifestyle With Martial Arts?

We are all divided into two categories. Either we are doing a lot and keep ourselves so busy that we don't find time to do anything else. In the second category, we do nothing at all, making our lifestyle sedentary and unfulfilling. For both categories, one thing should be added that makes life entertaining, while also filling it with passion and a sense of purpose. One thing we should add to our lives is martial arts. It is particularly essential for people in the second category. Martial arts is a great way to reverse your sedentary lifestyle. It modifies your life from meaningless to something passionate and meaningful.

• A sedentary lifestyle has many disadvantages. It can impact your lifestyle in multiple ways. One of the ways it affects your life is by destroying your health. When you are living your life in a sedentary way, you do not do any physical activity. You just enjoy doing nothing at all and continue sitting for hours. This impacts your health in the worst ways. You start suffering from heart disease. Your cardiovascular system becomes weak. The risk of a heart attack increases many times. Your heart loses the ability to pump blood and oxygen throughout your body effectively.

• Another disease you can suffer from very badly is diabetes mellitus. Your pancreas becomes weak due to your sedentary lifestyle, and it stops making sufficient insulin to counter high blood glucose levels. The result is diabetes.

• Obesity is also the most common result of a sedentary lifestyle. When you don't do any physical activity, your fat does not burn and starts accumulating in your body, and this leads to your body increasing in size, and you become fat and obese, which makes you vulnerable to a lot of diseases.

• Your posture and your appearance become very bad, and your face becomes dull if you do not add any physical activity to your lifestyle.

• With a lack of enough daily physical activity, your blood circulation becomes very weak, and it further leads to a lot of diseases affecting you.

• Your stamina becomes very weak, and you are not able to do anything properly. The ability to move efficiently for a longer duration becomes very weak.

There are numerous ways in which martial arts can benefit your health and lifestyle. The following are some of the ways you can reverse your sedentary lifestyle with training in martial arts.

• Martial arts acts as a great source for increasing your flexibility and movement. Your range of movement, time duration for how long you can keep moving, and flexibility in your body joints and bones increase to a major extent. This happens because in martial arts, you are not exposing your body to a particular exercise. You are exposing your body parts to different exercises that help your body become flexible and increase your stamina. The techniques and skills you learn in martial arts, such as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, typically focus on more than one joint of your body. Your one body part is not enough to execute the techniques and skills that you learn in martial arts. In executing one technique, you have to do multiple steps, and in each step, you are making different body parts work. So in this way, your movement and flexibility improve to a major extent.

• Although each martial art has a focus on strengthening a particular group of muscles or part of your body, they engage all your body parts. For example, in boxing, you focus largely on improving your punches. So when you practice throwing punches, you are not only using your arms to execute proper punches. Your legs and your back are also making an impact. Your posture determines a lot of the effectiveness of your punches. So you always try to improve your posture and keep it straight, and in a way that your punches become powerful. Therefore, you are involving your whole body in throwing punches.

• The same is the case with other martial arts. You largely focus on one or two parts of your body, but at the same time, many other parts of your body are playing their role. So your whole body is getting involved in that. There are some martial arts that impact many body parts for executing one single move or technique. One of such martial arts is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

• So when you involve and pass all your body through different techniques and moves, and you do that daily, your movement and flexibility start improving each day, and after some days you will notice a considerable improvement.

• If you look at the usual exercises that many people suggest, you will find that there are a lot of exercises that you need to do daily to have your entire body involved in movement. If you are just a beginner or doing exercise for the first time in your life, you will either reverse your decision to start exercising or will not do it properly. The same is the case with gym workouts. You cannot start your gym with all the exercises you need to do to involve all your body. This takes time to be able to do all the required exercises. So, whether it is about exercise or a gym workout, these are not for beginners. You can only do them properly if you continue doing it for a month or so.

• So, for beginners, there should be a better plan with which they are able to continue easily. That plan is martial arts. Martial arts can be considered as a one platform that combines all the exercises and workouts that you need to do on a daily basis. In other words, we can say that martial arts are able to move all your body parts without making you train different exercises and gym workouts. Your time for keeping all your body parts in motion is much less than the time you require for your exercise or gym workout.

• The reason is very clear that in martial arts, your whole body moves actively to make one move. While in a gym workout or in exercise, you are moving, only focusing on one body part at a time. For example, when you are doing push-ups, you are only focusing on your arms, and not on other body parts. All other body parts are not moving. So you have to do other exercises to get your whole body warmed up. This takes a lot of time.

• This is not the case in martial arts. If you do training for one hour, you are warming up your whole body in that time period, not a single body part. So martial arts combine all the exercises you need to do daily in their techniques and moves.

• You have a good and peaceful sleep when you are tired from doing some physical activity throughout the day. But when you are in your sedentary lifestyle, how will you get tired if you have not done any activity? So this is the greatest drawback that you experience due to your sedentary lifestyle.

• Getting tired is very necessary for your health. When you get tired, you enjoy a good sleep. If you are not having a good sleep, you will feel that you are not as active as you should be. So you are eventually losing your ability to be active just because you are not doing any activity.

• For this reason, even if you don't have anything to do, you can start training in martial arts. They are a great way to make you tired. While doing physical activity, your body releases some hormones, which are the reason why they are beneficial for you. The hormones released are cortisol, which is a stress hormone used for decreasing stress, and endorphins, which improve your mood. Besides these two hormones, there are many other hormones that are released, such as testosterone, growth hormones, and metabolic hormones.

• So martial arts is a great way to improve your day with a physical activity. You get rewards, and ultimately, your sleep improves.

• Your mind is a very crucial part of your body. It is so important and powerful that it can take you to the right or wrong path. If you are not taking care of your mind, then you should definitely try to do martial arts training.

• In training, you have to focus on executing the right techniques at the right moment. For this, you need to have good mental strength. You need to make prompt decisions. If any decision you take comes out wrong for you, your opponent will dominate you, making full use of the opportunity. But in the manner you learn where you did wrong and why it was wrong. In the next step, you don't repeat the same mistake again. So this improves your mental strength. The stronger your mind is, the better your decisions and actions will be.

• What purpose does your mind serve for your body? Your actions, decisions, and everything you do are influenced by your mind. So if your mind is strong, you will make good and quick decisions and actions. The same training happens in martial arts. With every mistake in your actions, you learn a quick lesson. You rectify the mistake and don't repeat it. So in this way, martial arts improves your mental health.

• Your metabolism depends largely on how much you move and do any sort of physical activity during the day. If you are doing good physical activity, then your metabolism is also good for your body. The moment you shift your physical activity to sitting or just lying on the bed, your metabolism starts declining every day. So, physical activity is very necessary for your body.

• When you are living a sedentary lifestyle, your body is doing minimal movement throughout the day. This decreases your metabolism in your body. Due to metabolism, the food you ingest is broken down into smaller pieces and is converted to energy, which you utilize for doing any sort of physical activity. When there is no metabolism, there is no energy. That is the reason in a demanding lifestyle, you feel lazy all day.

• But this has a solution, and that is the martial arts. Martial arts is a great way to boost your metabolism and increase your energy levels. More energy means you remain more active throughout the day. So martial arts makes you active throughout the day.

Martial arts can clearly transform your sedentary lifestyle by implementing many changes within your body and your lifestyle. Your metabolism gets improved, your mind becomes healthy, and you start having a good and peaceful sleep, your body stamina improves, and you become much more flexible. These are not the only changes that happen in your body. There are a lot of other changes as well. So choose martial arts and add it to your daily life routine. You can choose any martial art, but the most famous and rapidly growing martial art of today is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It is worth training in as it provides a range of benefits that many other martial arts cannot offer. So start training BJJ and reverse your sedentary lifestyle.

Martial arts can clearly transform your sedentary lifestyle by implementing many changes within your body and your lifestyle. Your metabolism gets improved, your mind becomes healthy, and you start having a good and peaceful sleep, your body stamina improves, and you become much more flexible. These are not the only changes that happen in your body. There are a lot of other changes as well. So choose martial arts and add it to your daily life routine.

A sedentary lifestyle has many disadvantages. It can impact your lifestyle in multiple ways. One of the ways it affects your life is by destroying your health. Another disease you can suffer from very badly is diabetes mellitus. Obesity is also the most common result of a sedentary lifestyle. Your posture and your appearance become very bad, and your face becomes dull if you do not add any physical activity to your lifestyle. With a lack of enough daily physical activity, your blood circulation becomes very weak, and it further leads to a lot of diseases affecting you. Your stamina becomes very weak, and you are not able to do anything properly.