Regular exercise has a multitude of benefits for everyone. It improves weight stability, heart and lung functions, reduces stress and improves mental functioning.
People living with mood disorders need exercise for increasing cognitive functioning, lessening of depression and overall physical and mental health. Exercise releases brain chemicals that control emotional and psychological activity in the brain. Exercise also counteracts the weight gain that most of the medications used in treatment can cause. Exercise helps with the length and quality of sleep and is a release for the excess energy of mania.
Simple regular activity is needed to burn off calories, irritability and get fit mentally and physically.
Half an hour of physical activity a day is a healthy goal to maintain a good level of fitness. Choose an activity that you enjoy or can at least tolerate for 30 minutes a day. Walk to the store for that forgotten loaf of bread or gallon of milk. You may choose to do indoor exercise if weather is an obstacle. Whatever physical activity yoga, fitness shows on TV, walking the dog, bicycling decide to keep in mind 30 minutes a day can mean 1 less episode of depression, 1 less spending spree that sends your savings back 6 months.
Choose a date for the beginning of your way to physically and mentally fit. Keep notes on which day you dide which exercise routine and which you enjoyed the most. Incorporate it inot your daily routine.
Exercise can be enjoyable it not mean pumping iron in a dirty gym. 30 minutes a day for happier Bipolar Living.
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