New habits are hard to develop. It’s even hard to keep them up for years to change a lifestyle. BYU-Idaho students should be great examples of physical fitness, but I believe we are average. Here you’ll learn why BYU-Idaho students should exercise regularly. You’ll learn about the social life, mental discipline, benefits of a dream body, and that this is a commandment from God. -----Click this link to share this post on Twitter-----

Social life

Most students go to the gym at a regular time each day. If you pick a good routine you will see similar faces. The same ones you could see on campus. You will begin to feel connected with them even if you do not talk with them.

If you are more outgoing, you can actually meet friends that will motivate you to reach your fitness goals. Making your process that much easier.

Even if you do not want to make new friends at the gym, imagine this, a pretty girl or guy comes over to your apartment for a dinner date. You care about your food so you have cooked a healthy delicious meal. You could be making sesame beef with gochujand udon noodles, which looks something like this.

Instead of buying Taco Bell for a date you can treat that special someone to something that’s amazing. When that person asks you how or why you prepared all this, you can answer with your head held hide, knowing you care about what you put into your body and you learned by looking it up online.

That is so much better than just buying out.

Mental Discipline

One of these blessings is mental resistance. The university of Princeton did a study on two different sets of mice. One they called a sedentary mouse and the other was a runner mouse. They tested how exercise affects the brain when outside stresses are added. These scientists threw these mice in sudden cold weather to stress them.

The results? The sedentary mice became anxious and their brains were not able to make as many neuron connections.

The runner mice? Their anxiety went down! Not just increased by a lower amount, but the anxiety decreased. Their bodies were better prepared for hard tasks. And their brains worked normally.

How would you like to be stressed out taking a test in a freezing town like Rexburg, ID? Plus, as a bonus, your brain isn’t working at its normal level.

Dream Body

The average engagement time after the first date in Rexburg is 4 months. Or 1 semester. (According to a survey done with most of the people I know) you can get in decent shape in 4 months, but you have to work very hard.

I recommend you start now doing little things to help today. Instead of waiting until you’re stressed for time.

And if you are already married? Trust me your wife/husband will love you getting back in shape and toning your body.

My wife is not very physical, it’s one of the things I love about her, she cares but it’s not a deal breaker for her that I workout regularly. But she is still grateful that I take care of my body.

One of the best parts of being a student at BYU-I is the Hart Main Gym. The average gym membership costs $37.71 per month in the United States. The university and many tithes payers have donated a lot of money to give us a gorgeous gym. Which is free for all BYU-I students.

The Hart gym has everything you need to build muscle, lose weight, or achieve whatever your fitness goals are.

The Commandment

First, let's look at a few examples in the scriptures that followed this commandment.

Nephi, “being a man large in stature, and also having received much strength of the Lord.” (1 Ne. 4:31)
The brother of Jared, “a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord.” (Ether 1:34)
Captain Moroni. “And Moroni was a strong and a mighty man.” (Alma 48:11)
Mormon, “And notwithstanding I being young, was large in stature; therefore the people of Nephi appointed me that I should be their leader.” (Mormon 2:1)

There is a correlation between the great man in the Book of Mormon and their physical strength.

Then there is the actual commandment from the Lord in the New Testament, “

“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” (1 Cor. 3:17) We have been told for years that our bodies are temples of God. He wants us to treat ourselves as such. God wants you and me to be physically active so that He can bless you more fully.

In conclusion, the Lord died and was resurrected to make our bodies perfect on the last day. He has asked us to take care of our bodies before that. Because each one of us will present our bodies before Christ and show Him how we treated His gift.

Famous Christian writer C.S. Lewis wrote, ”Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”