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Exercise & Mental Health | Increased levels of exercise in the evening were found to improve depressive symptoms in young adults with bipolar spectrum disorders (BSD), according to a study published in Depression & Anxiety.
Do you know someone who’s just really into something specific like paddle-boarding, painting, collecting something, or model trains?
Keeping your Mental Health | Exercise, even a little of it, can lengthen your life, a new study suggests.
The Norwegian researchers also found that too much sitting was associated with a higher risk of early death.
,,,yet the intervention does not receive the acknowledgement it warrants in clinical practice, reports a new review and meta-analysis published in Current Sports Medicine Reports, the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.
....regardless of their age and health status, the amount of training, and whether they grew stronger, researchers found in a meta-analysis.
Mental Health Update | Stopping exercise can result in increased depressive symptoms,
....according to new mental health research from the University of Adelaide.
Researchers analyzed data from 16 previously published studies with a total of 922 participants who were randomly assigned to do resistance training or be inactive.
Resistance workouts were associated with a reduction in anxiety symptoms regardless of whether or not participants had a mental health disorder, though the effect was more pronounced in healthy people who didn’t report any physical or psychological problems.
“The positive effects of exercise training on mental health are well established; however, the majority of this knowledge is based on studies involving aerobic based training,” said lead study author Brett Gordon, a physical education and sports researcher at the University of Limerick in Ireland.
“RET (resistance exercise training) significantly reduced anxiety in both healthy participants and those with a physical or mental illness, and the effect size of these reductions is comparable to that of frontline treatments such as medication and psychotherapy,” Gordon said by email. “RET is a low-cost behavior with minimal risk, and can be an effective tool to reduce anxiety for healthy and ill alike.”
Because the analysis only focused on resistance training, the results can’t show whether this type of activity might be better or worse than aerobic or other types of exercise for easing anxiety symptoms.
While the effects of resistance exercise on the brain are not as well understood as the impact of aerobic workouts, emerging research has also linked resistance training to less shrinkage of white matter in the brain, said Dianna Purvis Jaffin of the Brain Performance Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas.
having high cardiorespiratory fitness may cut the risk of death in half compared to those in poor condition, researchers say.