New studies are showing that exercise can help enlighten your mood and make you feel better. Nancy Klinger has struggled getting over the end of 26 years of marriage to her husband. She said on the inside her life was filled with pain and emotions that were incredibly high or incredibly low. When suggested by a therapist to take a dose of antidepressant, she refused. Instead, to cope with the stress, she turned to exercise. She started out by getting a trainer through TrainingPeaks website. Through this training she gets an assigned schedule of what to do through each day of the week. She said once she started setting goals for herself and achieving them she already started to feel better. The exercise has become habit for Nancy, a big part of her life. She said she has realized that over the past, several months she is starting to realize that is is okay to be happy and it is great to have goals. She is taking part in a triathlon in the near future and is really looking forward to it. Not only is exercise a healthy option to make you feel better, it is the cheaper and safer alternative of taking anti-depressant pills.
As an almost daily runner I agree with the idea that exercise can help you feel better. Laying down watching tv all day will have a negative effect on anybody's mood. It is encouraging to set goals for yourself and be able to achieve them. Not only does exercise help the mood, but also overall health, psychological and physical. Having a good physical health will have a positive effect on psychological health. It may be very helpful to the many depression patients to let them know that exercising would help them feel much better. This story of Nancy Klinger would be very helpful and encouraging to many people going through the same situations in their own lives.
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/20/how-im-fighting-depression-with-exercise/?hpt=he_c2
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