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    Why Exercise is Good for Your Skin

    By RealBeauty.com | Healthy Living – Tue, May 11, 2010 5:59 PM EDT

    Working out is fantastic for firming up flabby areas and losing weight. As if you needed another excuse to get your fitness on, it's no secret both your inner and outer health improve when you exercise. Proving that glowing skin not only comes from a bottle, jar or a tube, here are four ways that getting physical can pack amazing results for your skin.

    1. Sweating clears out your pores. But let everything stay on your skin and it could have adverse effects. Be sure to wash your face post-workout and shed your workout clothes to avoid chest and back breakouts.

    2. Exercising will firm you up, making your skin look toned and firm-doesn't a set of toned legs or strong arms always look nicer?

    3. As Elle Woods in Legally Blonde put it, "Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't kill their husbands. They just don't." Rising stress levels can cause trauma to the skin in the form of wrinkles, acne or breakouts. Any physical exertion will reduce the level of stress you have.

    4. When you work out, you should be drinking more water. Although your body is using that to hydrate itself as it sweats, it's also nourishing and cleansing to the skin.

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    4 comments

    • brandezzy
      brandezzy  •  2 years 0 months ago
      Actually I didn't know that, but I was beginning to suspect. I used to be really active in team sport when I was younger and my skin was fine. But now that I'm older and don't workout as much, my complexion has gone crazy. I'm going to take this advice and start hitting the gym more often. Thanks!
    • coca22
      coca22  •  2 years 0 months ago
      Same old info. that I've read a million times before. Please print something new that we don't already know..
    • k8blujay
      k8blujay  •  2 years 0 months ago
      or coca22, YOU could write a blog and tell us something that we don't know... ;)

      Of course we know that exercise is good for our skin, but it's nice to be reminded every once in a while.
    • Lil Bear
      Lil Bear  •  2 years 0 months ago
      It also bring some color to your face. Keeps you from looking drained and dead.
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