Fitness & Mental health
Fitness & Mental health
Fitness and regular physical activities in many ways affect your brain and mental activities in a positively way that ultimately enhance mental health, reduce risk of mental illnesses like depression and success in everyday life. And here are some of the benefits that regular exercising can have on your mental functions:
-Boost memory: Exercise has many effects that enhances memory and helps you recalling information better and faster. It increases blood flow to the brain, reduces insulin resistance, reduces inflammation, and increasing growth factors which are responsible for new blood vessels formation and growth of nervous tissue.
Researches have found also that parts of brain tissue responsible for memory and thinking are larger in size in people who regularly exercise than people who don't. Of these parts is the hippocampus, the part of the brain that is primarily responsible for memory,
that shown to be lager in those who regularly do exercises.
-Enhance mood: Regular training and exercising helps you feel more comfortable, happy and reduces the risk of depressive disorders. This because exercise:
-Concentration:
Regular daily exercising is associated with increased concentration and attention abilities of your brain which also contributes in having sharp and clear memory and decreases the risk of age related mental disorders like Alzheimer disease.
-Self image and Confidence:
Creativity:
Exercise increases blood flow to your brain increasing thinking abilities and helping you think more clearly. This is also directly associated with increased creativity and creative thinking.
Are you looking for creative ideas for your life? Well you can do so while exercising. It said that Albert Einstein, the great physicist and one of the most brilliant minds, first thought of his "Relativity theory" while riding his bicycle.
-Get relaxed:
Feeling stressed and anxious and looking for relaxation from daily life burdens? Being fit helps you decrease stress levels as it enhances mood, self image and self esteem as we mentioned. It helps you feel more relaxed, relief stress, and getting better sleep.
References:
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/p/physical-activity-and-mental-health
https://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/benefits-of-exercisereduces-stress-anxiety-and-helps-fight-depression
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/exercising-to-relax
-Boost memory: Exercise has many effects that enhances memory and helps you recalling information better and faster. It increases blood flow to the brain, reduces insulin resistance, reduces inflammation, and increasing growth factors which are responsible for new blood vessels formation and growth of nervous tissue.
Researches have found also that parts of brain tissue responsible for memory and thinking are larger in size in people who regularly exercise than people who don't. Of these parts is the hippocampus, the part of the brain that is primarily responsible for memory,
that shown to be lager in those who regularly do exercises.
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| Studies have shown that hippocampus grows in size in response to exercise |
➧ Increases the release of neurochemicals like serotonin and endorphins which make you feel happy and pleased and experience less pain and disappointment.
➧ On the long run one will be glad of being in shape
Exercise is a great way to improve your mood. Studies showed that regular exercise alone can treat mild to moderate depression without needing medications. It also decreases the risk of having major depression. |
| Try exercising regularly and you will feel better. |
-Concentration:
Regular daily exercising is associated with increased concentration and attention abilities of your brain which also contributes in having sharp and clear memory and decreases the risk of age related mental disorders like Alzheimer disease.
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| Exercise enhances concentration and thinking abilities |
-Self image and Confidence:
Regular exercising, being in shape, and achieving fitness is linked with enhanced self image and self satisfaction which is reflected on increased self confidence and success in our lives. So if you want to be more motivated achieving your own goals, regular daily exercising can help you with that.
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| Self confidence |
Creativity:
Exercise increases blood flow to your brain increasing thinking abilities and helping you think more clearly. This is also directly associated with increased creativity and creative thinking.
Are you looking for creative ideas for your life? Well you can do so while exercising. It said that Albert Einstein, the great physicist and one of the most brilliant minds, first thought of his "Relativity theory" while riding his bicycle.
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| Albert Einstein and Relativity |
Feeling stressed and anxious and looking for relaxation from daily life burdens? Being fit helps you decrease stress levels as it enhances mood, self image and self esteem as we mentioned. It helps you feel more relaxed, relief stress, and getting better sleep.
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| Exercising helps you relief stress and get relaxed. |
References:
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/p/physical-activity-and-mental-health
https://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/benefits-of-exercisereduces-stress-anxiety-and-helps-fight-depression
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/exercising-to-relax
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