“Effect of Exercise and Fitness Activity for Women’s Health in Sanawad”

Abstract: Exercise and fitness are essential to improve women's overall well-being, prevent chronic disease, and enhance mental health. Physical activity maintains weight, strengthens the cardiovascular system, and helps in maintaining bone health, preventing osteoporosis. It also helps in regulating hormones, which relieves symptoms of menstrual irregularities and menopause.

Mental health advantages include less stress, anxiety, and depression, with exercise stimulating the release of endorphins, improving mood and cognitive function. Special fitness programs, including strength training, aerobic exercises, and flexibility exercises, address women's special physiological requirements. In addition, exercise during pregnancy can enhance maternal health and facilitate postpartum recovery.

Although there are advantages, the barriers of insufficient time, social pressures, and misinformation tend to prevent women from engaging in regular exercise. Knowledge, access, and individualized fitness plans can enable women to take control of their health by being physically active. Inducing healthy lifetime fitness practices is crucial for long-term health and disease prevention. Exercise play important role in overall health of women.

Women's health, strength training, mental well-being, weight control, stress reduction

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