- You get to hit things - lets just call that stress relieving
- The satisfaction you get from knowing you have a perfect spinning hook kick - and the look on your friends' faces when you show them
- Kickboxing helps you sleep
- Kickboxing helps your immune system function better
- Kickboxing improves your appearance
- Kickboxing helps you relax
- Kickboxing reduces the risk of developing hypertension
- Kickboxing reduces your anxiety levels
- Kickboxing teaches you how to defend yourself
- It helps overcome jetlag
- It lowers your resting heart rate
- It increases you anaerobic threshold (allows you to work or exercise for longer at a higher level before a lot of lactic acid builds up)
- It helps to preserve lean body tissue
- Kickboxing improves posture
- Kickboxing helps you maintain your resting metabolic rate
- It expands blood plasma volume
- It boosts your energy levels
- Kickboxing increases the supply of blood to the skin for cooling
- It burns excess calories, and lets you eat more while maintaining a stable weight
- It improves circulation in general
- Kickboxing improves your reaction speeds
- Kickboxing improves your mental alertness
- It improves your discipline and self-esteem
- It makes you more flexible
- It improves your balance and coordination
- It helps you lose weight - and keep it off (unlike dieting alone)
- Kickboxing relieves the pain of tension headaches - possibly the most common type of headache
- Kickboxing increases the density and breaking strength of your bones
- It increases the circulating levels of HDL (good) cholesterol
- It improves short-term memory
- It reduces vulnerability to cardian dysrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms)
- It reduces circulating levels of triglyderides
- It beats watching reruns on Dave (and it's better for you)
- It gives you more energy in day-to-day life
- It increases the density and breaking strengths of ligaments and tendons
- It increases your level of muscle endurance
- Kickboxing helps to alleviate depression
- Kickboxing increases your maximal oxygen uptake
- Kickboxing teaches you to breathe properly when exercising
- It expands blood plasma volume
- It balances out the strength in your upper and lower body
- It improves respiratory muscle strength and endurance
- It reduces your risk of developing various diseases - from common colds to type II diabetes and coronary thrombosis
- It improves skin tone
- It improves your body's ability to use fat for energy during physical activity, so it's easier to shed fat
- It improves your pain tolerance
- It increases your overall health awareness
- It improves heat and cold tolerances
- It increases the diffusion capacity of your lungs, improcing the exchange of oxygen into the bloodstream
- Kickboxing improves your overall quality of life
Thanks to truebluetitan for the image.
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