Movement & Exercise

• Combine Mindfulness with exercise for Mental Health boost in 2024 : New Research shows how combining mindfulness with exercise boosts people’s mental health and wellbeing and could help change exercise habits.

  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240102174035.htm

• “An Active Lifestyle Can help To Ward Off Alzheimer’s” Using our brain helps to maintain and increase its sharpness. Studies show that people who frequently engage in mentally stimulating activities, engage in aerobic exercises such as jogging and cycling and regularly partecipate in social activities such as clubs, religious services or volunteer work, can preserve their cognitive functions and prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s.

  https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-an-active-lifestyle-help-ward-off-alzheimers-11614264941?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1

• Exercise helps to keep you Psyche fit:

  You know that exercise is good for your body. But did you know that exercise is also good for your mind? A number of research studies are emphasizing  the importance  of exercise in the treatment of clinical depression as well as in the treatment of anxiety. Evidence of the antidepressant benefits of exercise is being used by psychotherapists and other health practitioners who are increasingly recommending exercise to their patients as part of a treatment program. 

  https://www.apa.org/research/action/fit

   

• The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage by Kelly McGonigal

  Movement as a source of JOY not as a chore.

• Fitness Friday: exercise the old fashioned way

  https://wellviewhealth.com/fitness-friday-exercise-the-old-fashioned-way/

• Try these stretches before you get out of bed

  https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/try-these-stretches-before-you-get-out-of-bed?utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WR20200403-Stretching&utm_id=2045817&dlv-emuid=d754cc47-e260-4b03-9ea7-1ae4f2e0c801&dlv-mlid=2045817

• National Institute On Aging: exercise and physical activity

  https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/exercise-physical-activity

• Current guidelines

  https://health.gov/paguidelines/second-edition/

• Why is physical activity important?

  https://www.choosemyplate.gov/physical-activity-why

• Don’t just sit there!

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/health/sitting/Sitting.pdf

• The brain-changing benefits of exercising- TED talk with Wendy Suzuki, PhD

  https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_suzuki_the_brain_changing_benefits_of_exercise/transcript?language=en

• Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high-blood pressure. Mayo Clinic: (August 2015)

  http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/in-depth/high-blood-pressure/ART-20045206

• Exercise: 7 benefits of regular physical activity. Mayo Clinic: (October 2016).

  http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/exercise/art-20048389

• What are the risks of sitting too much?

  https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/expert-answers/sitting/faq-20058005