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[Animation] The six main benefits of exercise
OK, so there are more than six benefits of exercising. In fact, there are hundreds when you start breaking it down and looking in detail at what the wonders of movement can do for you. But for now, I’ve stuck to categorising the benefits into six key areas. In under three minutes, the below animation can tell you just what those are...
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