Why Should Students Exercise

When we grow old, we hit on the presumption that perhaps the creamiest and most delightful phase of our lives was our days of studentship. In hindsight, humans tend to absorb the pressure of the past better; simply because they do not have to fight with it anymore. Student life has its own pressure element and only the one undergoing it feels the tautness in his nerves. The world, more than ever before, has come to a point where in each phase of our lives the question of one-upmanship is raising its ugly head. Peer pressure has become so huge that such stresses play havoc on our senses. If it is the truth for all the workplaces, so is it for students. Their bags full of homework, one exam or another lurching in the wings; they always lie under the ‘Damocles sword’ for one reason or another.

Imagine about the college students; they just walk into a new vision of life fraught with uncertainties. Each step is a new step. There are many new social commitments that they have to make. Sometimes the stress of social ostracism lies too heavily on their mind. “How might I look to that new college girl”? “Am I not obese”? “Will she like a person of my intelligence or finances”? These questions keep haunting us and unduly stress us. Then there is the avalanche of study which befalls us. Suddenly the hiatus between school and college catches on us. The stress of coping with studies makes us tremor. Even while fighting hard with all these issues, sometimes we tend to lose our mental peace and then there is the big bad world of delinquency that we have to resort to; assuming that it is enough release from pressure. Statistics suggest we are highly vulnerable to taking cigarettes and liquor on entering college. This might also be for entertainment or simply inflating our new-born egos.

To all this sea of problem, there seems but one respite. The mind must be kept at complete peace and for that it needs ample energy. Here come exercises into the picture; no one can ever doubt the way in which exercises can increase the metabolism of human body, thereby letting it use more oxygen. Brain cells thrive on such oxygen as the oxygen helps it replenish itself to fight another day. This can be otherwise achieved through sound sleep but then that is such a remote possibility when one imagines what kind of gear we are in, just on entering college. We bask in new found freedom and do not wish to waste a moment in sleeping it out, study stress also forces us to burn our midnight oils.

Exercise, moderate in regimen, comes in very handy in keeping our heart rate up. It provides fresh blood circulation to our body and also helps us release the pressure on the brain. With such vitality, it becomes very easy for us to acclimatize to these new found pressures and connect better to our studies. A healthy mind, coupled with a reinvigorated body also helps us in beating any insurmountable odds that may come ahead of us in these new territories.