Exercise Effective for Managing Mental Health (Article)
“The addition of physical activity had higher positive effects on depression, anxiety, and psychological distress than usual care – across all populations.
The greatest benefits were seen by those with depression, pre and postnatal individuals, healthy individuals, people diagnosed with HIV, and kidney disease.
All types of physical exercise including walking, pilates, yoga, and resistance training were found to be beneficial. One type of exercise showed the greatest improvement in mental health symptoms: higher-intensity physical activity.”
My Takeaways:
Exercise has been shown to be beneficial to cardiovascular health and in general physical health as it conditions your body to be more resilient to general stressors. In light of this finding, exercise was also found to be beneficial to our mental health as well!
Research shows that addition of physical exercise to one's regimen improved positive effects for people with depression, anxiety and general psychological distress. During exercise our body releases various hormones that also help regulate our moods. Some hormones include endorphins (which is responsible for the runners high) and epinephrine which are important hormones that regulate our mental states as well.
Exercise is not supposed to supplant or replace other methods available for mental health including medications and therapy. Instead adding exercise as a supplemental addition can greatly enhance one's recovery and maintenance of healthy mental health.
Full article is here!
#Exercise #MentalHealth #HealthyLiving
What are your favorite exercises?
@sunnyWriting4806
Great Article and information. Thank you for sharing!
My Favorites are Definitely ZUMBA & Swimming!
@PoliteOcean
My mother does Zumba classes and I remember how much she gets exhausted the day after! I'm also a swimmer myself! Two great sports!
@sunnyWriting4806
oh how awesome that your mother enjoys ZUMBA too!.. Its honestly the ONE workout that has ALWAYS Kept me motivated (and yes exhausted too) lol.. BUT.. its a GOOD exhausted!!!
And yes I totally agree, (Zumba & swimming) are BOTH two great sports!
@PoliteOcean
Haha you and my mother share that same enthusiasm for Zumba, maybe I should give it a try sometime!
@sunnyWriting4806
Thank you so much for spreading this message.
I too am trying to help everyone here feel better by just moving.
To apply ideas listed in the article, just try the 7Cups free Community growth path steps below.
Find them right now here:
- https://www.7cups.com/path/modifier/
- Click "Community" and search for Exercise or Stretching or Tai Chi and discover all kinds of great videos.
- They show you how to do fun easy moves at home for free right now. Movement is the best medicine! It works really fast. Yay!
@7motivation
Wow thanks for this amazing resource! Never knew it was there if you hadn't told me. Yes move move move!
@sunnyWriting4806 You're welcome. It can be tricky finding beginner videos. So here's a shortcut, to easily find beginner videos, that I shared recently: https://www.7cups.com/forum/HealthyLiving_141/GettingStarted_824/Lookingforanexercisingguidevideoforanextremebeginner_295410/?post=3214116 And here's a link with 4 advanced videos: It also has a huge list of video links at the bottom. All kinds of videos to pick from! https://www.7cups.com/path/exercise/feel-good-now-playlist-very-best-videos-1663939880/ It's designed as a play-along-game. You can even do the moves sitting! "Dancing in your seat", doing just the upper-body moves! How's that for super convenient! Minimal motivation needed for maximum fun! 🌝
@sunnyWriting4806
You're welcome.
It can be tricky finding beginner videos.
So here's a shortcut,
to easily find beginner videos,
that I shared recently:
And here's a link with 4 advanced videos:
It also has a huge list of video links at the bottom.
All kinds of videos to pick from!
- https://www.7cups.com/path/exercise/feel-good-now-playlist-very-best-videos-1663939880/
- It's designed as a play-along-game.
- You can even do the moves sitting!
"Dancing in your seat", doing just the upper-body moves!
How's that for super convenient! - Minimal motivation needed for maximum fun! 🌝
to easily find beginner videos,
that I shared recently:
And here's a link with 4 advanced videos:
It also has a huge list of video links at the bottom.
All kinds of videos to pick from!
- https://www.7cups.com/path/exercise/feel-good-now-playlist-very-best-videos-1663939880/
- It's designed as a play-along-game.
- You can even do the moves sitting!
"Dancing in your seat", doing just the upper-body moves!
How's that for super convenient! - Minimal motivation needed for maximum fun! 🌝
Enjoy!
@sunnyWriting4806
It seems my reply above had a web glitch.
It was supposed to say:
You're welcome.
It can be tricky finding beginner videos.
So here's a shortcut,
to easily find beginner videos,
that I shared recently:
And here's a link with 4 advanced videos:
It also has a huge list of video links at the bottom.
All kinds of videos to pick from!
- https://www.7cups.com/path/exercise/feel-good-now-playlist-very-best-videos-1663939880/
- It's designed as a play-along-game.
- You can even do the moves sitting!
"Dancing in your seat", doing just the upper-body moves!
How's that for super convenient! - Minimal motivation needed for maximum fun! 🌝
Enjoy!
@7motivation
thank you!! Minimal motivation needed for maximal movement! Fun :)
