Many people with anxiety would benefit from exercising. It releases happy endorphins, which is good for you! And of course it’s good to be physically healthy, that leads to a healthy mind.
Over the years I have to admit that exercise and me aren’t the best tent buddies. We don’t snuggle up to each other to keep warm. We don’t really drink decaff soya lattes and eat cake together.
But, I have had periods where I’ve done exercise regularly. And those times, amazingly (that’s sarcastic), I’ve been at my fittest in those times!
Exercises that I’ve done regularly have included: weight training, squash, cycling, swimming.
These have all been done in periods of my life, and have come and gone. Right now I sometimes do some weight training, and very occasionally I cycle.
The weight training is a very good choice for EVERYBODY. It increases muscle, of course, but in doing that increases metabolism, and can burn fat, if you’re not taking in enough calories, to build those muscles. While you sleep! Imagine that! Oh dear, I’ve just let the cat out of the ‘one weird fat loss secret’ product. It’s hardly a secret though.
I recently bought a kettlebell, and it’s fantastic, it really does work. You get a compound work out in just a few minutes, and all sorts of muscles are used that in a normal gym you’d have to use a dozen different machines to ‘target’. Targetting weight training to me is a bit odd, as you miss bits out, and end up working to your strengths – ie doing the ones you enjoy. I always used to enjoy chest and legs, but hated shoulders. As a result I always had weak and injury prone shoulders. The kettlebell doesn’t allow that, you do the whole body at once. Recommended.
Cycling is a tricky one for me. It works again (or should that be with?) my agoraphobia type tendencies. So when I’m feeling I’m struggling, I won’t be cycling, so don’t do it. Of course that’s exactly the time I should be doing it, and going out and challenging those panic type thoughts.
Many people run. It’s not for me, I’ve thought about it many times, but I just don’t seem drawn to it. I’m also very aware of the running nutters. The people who become addicted to it, and do it incessantly and end up doing marathons, and triathlons and the like. That doesn’t seem healthy to me, it’s just another addiction! I don’t know what it is about running (and cycling, to an extent) that people end up obsessing about?
Okay, so, what am I saying here, yes, do some exercise. Any exercise! It’s good for you, and you *need* to do it. Do resistance weight training, everyone can benefit from this, do not neglect it. Even if it’s just picking up a bottle of water a few dozen times a day. I said water, not pint of beer.
Many people with anxiety would benefit from exercising. It releases happy endorphins, which is good for you! And of course it’s good to be physically healthy, that leads to a healthy mind.
Over the years I have to admit that exercise and me aren’t the best tent buddies. We don’t snuggle up to each other to keep warm. We don’t really drink decaff soya lattes and eat cake together.
But, I have had periods where I’ve done exercise regularly. And those times, amazingly (that’s sarcastic), I’ve been at my fittest in those times!
Exercises that I’ve done regularly have included: weight training, squash, cycling, swimming.
These have all been done in periods of my life, and have come and gone. Right now I sometimes do some weight training, and very occasionally I cycle.
The weight training is a very good choice for EVERYBODY. It increases muscle, of course, but in doing that increases metabolism, and can burn fat, if you’re not taking in enough calories, to build those muscles. While you sleep! Imagine that! Oh dear, I’ve just let the cat out of the ‘one weird fat loss secret’ product. It’s hardly a secret though.
I recently bought a kettlebell, and it’s fantastic, it really does work. You get a compound work out in just a few minutes, and all sorts of muscles are used that in a normal gym you’d have to use a dozen different machines to ‘target’. Targetting weight training to me is a bit odd, as you miss bits out, and end up working to your strengths – ie doing the ones you enjoy. I always used to enjoy chest and legs, but hated shoulders. As a result I always had weak and injury prone shoulders. The kettlebell doesn’t allow that, you do the whole body at once. Recommended.
Cycling is a tricky one for me. It works again (or should that be with?) my agoraphobia type tendencies. So when I’m feeling I’m struggling, I won’t be cycling, so don’t do it. Of course that’s exactly the time I should be doing it, and going out and challenging those panic type thoughts.
Many people run. It’s not for me, I’ve thought about it many times, but I just don’t seem drawn to it. I’m also very aware of the running nutters. The people who become addicted to it, and do it incessantly and end up doing marathons, and triathlons and the like. That doesn’t seem healthy to me, it’s just another addiction! I don’t know what it is about running (and cycling, to an extent) that people end up obsessing about?
Okay, so, what am I saying here, yes, do some exercise. Any exercise! It’s good for you, and you *need* to do it. Do resistance weight training, everyone can benefit from this, do not neglect it. Even if it’s just picking up a bottle of water a few dozen times a day. I said water, not pint of beer.