Author: Lynn McArthur
Source: ezinearticles.com

Exercise is a must if you are serious about healing acne. By exercising on a regular basis, you can also help prevent acne.

While you are exercising, you are increasing the blood flow to your skin, which provides more oxygen to your skin cells. Your skin needs oxygen to stay healthy – oxygen assists in the production of collagen, elastin and other components necessary for a healthy skin condition.

You should exercise at an intensity that will promote sweating. Sweating helps clean your skin pores by expelling toxins from your body, which is important in healing acne. I never feel better than after a good workout where I have sweat out all the ‘bad stuff’! It goes without saying that showering after you have been sweating is important.

Exercise also helps regulate over-active hormones, which is a root cause of acne. Aerobic exercise in particular is good at calming down excess hormone production. Aerobic exercise is defined as “any activity that uses large muscle groups, can be maintained continuously, and is rhythmic in nature.”(Definition by The American College of Sports Medicine). Aerobic exercise is the type of exercise that overloads the heart and lungs and causes them to work harder than at rest.

To improve your chances of healing acne, you should set a goal of at least 30 minutes of exercise 5 times a week.

So, what kind of exercise should you do? Of course, it should be something you enjoy (at least a little!), or you won’t do it! Even if you don’t like it much at first, you will look forward to it when you see and feel the results of your efforts.

Some examples of aerobic exercise are:

Aerobic Dance
Bicycling
Cross Country Skiing
In-line Skating
Fitness Walking
Jumping Rope
Running
Stair Climbing
Swimming

One word of caution about swimming…if you swim in a public pool, it will usually have a high concentration of chlorine. This will really dry your skin out! It’s important that you shower immediately after swimming in a chlorinated pool, and make sure you use a good moisturizer afterwards! Swimming is great exercise, but if you can find a pool that uses saline instead of chlorine, that would be better for your skin. If you’re in the right climate, maybe there is a nearby lake you can swim in!

The bottom line is you need to get up and get moving if you are going to start healing acne! Your skin and your entire body will be better for it!

To Your Clear Skin,

Lynn

Lynn McArthur is a ‘recovered’ acne sufferer. Having lived with pimples and acne from an early age well into her adulthood, she understands EXACTLY what you are going through in your battle to have clear skin. She understands your daily challenges, and has sound advice. Visit Lynn at Healing Acne For Good.