Mental Health Benefits Of Exercise

In article two, exercise is defined as “training of the body to improve its function and enhance its fitness”. Exercise is something that improves mental health and well being, while also reducing depression, anxiety, and enhances cognitive functioning. This article reports the results of a literature review examination. Throughout history many societies have used exercise as a means of preventing disease, promoting health, and ones overall well-being. Exercise reduces anxiety, depression, and negative moods. While it states that exercise helps reduce depression, it is believed to advocate as a more effective antidote to depression than psychoanalysis. Anxiety has several different views that suggest the impact of exercise on anxiety. One view suggests that exercise raises body temperature reducing muscle tension lowering anxiety.
These are all great examples of exercise being beneficial for mental health through all the positive effects being mentally sharp. In the article, exercise is also associated with improving the quality of life for people with Schizophrenia. However, exercise is rarely recognized by mainstream mental health services, as an effective intervention because there is evidence to suggest that exercise may be a neglected intervention in mental health care. In the final portion of the article, the article consists of examinations of whether mental health practitioners use exercise as a treatment and how exercise can be used into the every day lives of people with mental health