Exercise to Reduce Stress
EXERCISE TO REDUCE STRESS
Increase productivity while reducing stress through exercise
Have you ever felt anxious and tried to relax yet it just makes you feel more agitated? You try to figure out what 's bothering you and that doesn 't work either?
We suggest you consider the possibility that you need exercise.
Cortisol vs Endorphins ■ When you worry or something makes you upset, adrenaline, cortisol, lactate and various chemicals are released into your blood stream. This also includes extra fatty acids. Exercise forces your body to burn all these stress side-effects that are associated with belly fat, causing heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other serious health conditions. So rather than taking several hours or all day for this substances to slowly filter out of your blood, exercise burns it all off in twenty minutes, leaving you feeling refreshed and relaxed. It also burns off the extra fatty acids cortisol has released into your blood stream, removing the health risk associated with triglycerides. More importantly, exercise increases endorphins, your body 's ‘feel-good’ chemicals, giving your mood a natural boost.
Studies
■ In a study of rats at the University of Wisconsin, and then again in a Canadian study, they had one group of rats exercise on an exercise wheel, and another group that didn 't exercise. When the rats were exposed to stress, the exercising rats released measurably less norepinephrine into their brains. Norepinephrine is a hormone that produces adrenaline. In other words, the exercising rats had a healthier response to the stressful event.
■ British researchers found that exercise not only improved the subjects ' moods, but it improved their creative thinking. They were able to come up with a greater variety of responses. This would ultimately lower anxiety because it is easier to solve your problems if you can come up with better solutions. In the study, the participants did twenty to twenty-five minutes of
Increase productivity while reducing stress through exercise
Have you ever felt anxious and tried to relax yet it just makes you feel more agitated? You try to figure out what 's bothering you and that doesn 't work either?
We suggest you consider the possibility that you need exercise.
Cortisol vs Endorphins ■ When you worry or something makes you upset, adrenaline, cortisol, lactate and various chemicals are released into your blood stream. This also includes extra fatty acids. Exercise forces your body to burn all these stress side-effects that are associated with belly fat, causing heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other serious health conditions. So rather than taking several hours or all day for this substances to slowly filter out of your blood, exercise burns it all off in twenty minutes, leaving you feeling refreshed and relaxed. It also burns off the extra fatty acids cortisol has released into your blood stream, removing the health risk associated with triglycerides. More importantly, exercise increases endorphins, your body 's ‘feel-good’ chemicals, giving your mood a natural boost.
Studies
■ In a study of rats at the University of Wisconsin, and then again in a Canadian study, they had one group of rats exercise on an exercise wheel, and another group that didn 't exercise. When the rats were exposed to stress, the exercising rats released measurably less norepinephrine into their brains. Norepinephrine is a hormone that produces adrenaline. In other words, the exercising rats had a healthier response to the stressful event.
■ British researchers found that exercise not only improved the subjects ' moods, but it improved their creative thinking. They were able to come up with a greater variety of responses. This would ultimately lower anxiety because it is easier to solve your problems if you can come up with better solutions. In the study, the participants did twenty to twenty-five minutes of
References: Rod K. Dishman, Ph. D, University of Georgia, Mark Sothmann, Ph. D, Indiana University’s School of Medicine and School of Allied Health Sciences, Shawn Talbot, Ph.D., Rutgers.