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This week we're talking about stress and how you can improve the way you experience stress in your life. So far we've talked about how the amount of stress in your life is less important than your perception stress. Your goal should be to embrace stress or something that can prepare you for tough times. We also talked about practicing stress.
When you put yourself in challenging situations of your own choosing, you are improving your values by logical response to stress. And we talked about resilience, how follows a lot of optimism and spirituality help you cope with adversity. Today we're going to talk about how exercise can help you manage stress. A topic especially relevant during the pandemic.
Numerous studies have shown that exercise can improve your mood. Exercise can challenge your stress response to something constructive and distract your mind from the challenges at work or home that make you feel chronic stress. In many ways, exercise peers will be a form of stress and population. In studies, mice get an access to running wheels and tools to explore, which can resist stress compared with mice that can exercise.
They measure this by exposing the mice to an aggressive mouse. After being bullied by the aggressive mouse, both the sedentary and more active mice are stressed, but the exercising mice bounce back. The bottom line, exercise doesn't eliminate stress, but it does give your body the physical conditioning it needs to recover from it. So how much exercise you need to manage stress?
It doesn't take much. Even small amounts of exercise can help. The key is consistency. Don't let the stress of your day push exercise off the schedule.
Does the type of exercise matter? The exercise that is best for relieving stress is the one you will do. Find something that fits your schedule and that you enjoy. For some, that will be a high intensity workout.
For others, it will be a 30 minute walk at much time. It's worth noting that when it comes to reducing stress, research suggests that you get more out of exercise that you incorporate some latering. So keep exercise open in the future and joining us for the moment. How's it about to say that we leave it there?
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