We all know that training is an irreplaceable part of a healthy lifestyle and contributes significantly to keeping our bodies healthy. However, fitness training is not only a key process when it comes to reducing body fat or building muscle, but also has significant health benefits. The reduction of risk factors for various diseases such as diabetes and heart attacks is particularly worth mentioning here. In addition, the training strengthens bones and muscles, making you much more resilient in everyday life and therefore better able to cope with it. Now that we've covered the physical benefits of exercise enough, it's legitimate to ask whether exercise also has an impact on our mental health. This question can easily be answered with the following question. Have you ever noticed that you feel great immediately after exercising and all negative thoughts seem to have disappeared? If so, then you already have the answer to the question of whether training can affect your mental health. In the following article, we would like to focus on how and in what way training can positively influence your mood.
Reason 1 - Training helps you to think more clearly and make better decisions
A widely known effect of fitness training is the activation of a specific region of the brain called the ventral prefrontal cortex. This special brain region is very important for processing emotional processes as well as for making decisions. If this area is increasingly activated during training, you will find it easier to block out strong emotions during decision-making processes and therefore make better decisions. Incidentally, the level of activation is highest during a classic cardio workout of at least half an hour. It therefore makes perfect sense to go for a workout before making any serious decisions.
Reason 2 - Training helps you to block out negative thoughts
However, the ventral prefrontal cortex is not only particularly valuable for making decisions, because the ability to process emotions has another advantage for you. This is due to the fact that negative emotions such as fear are also processed in this emotional processing center, which leads to making judgments about whether something is risky or not and rationally processing negative thought processes. So if you exercise regularly, this leads to a certain mental hygiene that helps you to stay focused on the positive things in your life.
Reason 3 - Training makes you stress-resistant
Scientific studies show that people who exercise regularly are much better able to deal with stress than people who do not exercise. Specifically, the stress that occurs during exercise activates the so-called Rapha nuclei, which are responsible for regulating mood. This special region of the brain also produces the neurotransmitter serotonin, which helps you to stay in a positive mood and cope with stressful situations. This effect is supported by another neurotransmitter called substance P, which makes you less sensitive to stress in your environment.
Reason 4 - Training counteracts anxiety and nervousness
However, the release of the neurotransmitter serotonin has numerous other benefits. These include the fact that the release of the neurotransmitter promotes positive emotions and is therefore able to eliminate anxiety and nervousness.
Reason 5 - Regular training improves the performance of your memory
In sports and neuroscience, the connection between regular exercise and the development of memory performance has been researched for some time. To the surprise of many, the scientists involved have discovered that regular physical exercise actually has a positive effect on memory performance. In detail, this is because the so-called hippocampus is activated, which helps the brain to store new memories and, in turn, to eliminate memories that are no longer needed. You should definitely take advantage of this effect, especially if you have a lot to learn at school or university.
Reason 6 - Regular training optimizes your mental performance
Further scientific studies have recently confirmed that regular physical training can also improve the short-term performance of your brain. This primarily concerns the absorption and processing of stimuli as well as the recall of already known patterns with regard to solving acute problems. In practice, this effect is particularly useful in the course of your work when you need to solve complex problems in a short space of time.
Reason 7 - Exercise can reduce your perception of pain
You will no doubt have heard of the so-called runner's high, which occurs during exercise and increases with duration. The runner's high describes a state of intoxication that is due to the release of happiness hormones and also means that you hardly notice the pain that occurs during prolonged physical exertion. Every marathon runner will be able to confirm this effect from their own experience. However, the interesting phenomenon in this context is that this reduced perception of pain is not only limited to acute sporting exertion, but also has an effect on the global perception of pain. So if you exercise regularly, you generally reduce your sensitivity to the sensation of pain. To benefit from this effect, however, you don't have to perform at your best, as further scientific studies have shown that moderate-intensity exercise is sufficient.
Reason 8 - You get a positive body perception
Based on a survey of thousands of athletes, scientists were able to find out that the regularity of training has a clear causal relationship with one's own body image. In detail, this means that people who train regularly have a much more positive opinion of their body than people who only train sporadically or not at all. In order to eliminate or at least reduce dissatisfaction with one problem area or another, it is enough to simply start exercising regularly - everything else will come naturally.
Reason 9 - People who exercise regularly have better relationships
The following point is admittedly not particularly scientifically proven, but is based on the subjective experiences of numerous athletes who train regularly. This subjective impression that people who exercise regularly have better relationships with a more fulfilling sex life is most likely due to other effects that training has on the body. These include, for example, an improvement in general mood, a reduction in negative feelings and an increase in stress tolerance. We don't want to give the impression that relationships are stressful, but increased stress resistance in general can never do any harm.
Reason 10 - People who exercise regularly are happier
As you have seen, study after study shows that people who exercise regularly are generally happier than people who do not exercise. In view of the numerous positive aspects that add up to the bottom line, this finding is no longer a real surprise. As regular exercise also improves your physical appearance in the long term, which in turn has feedback effects on your psyche, the overall picture at the end of the day is extremely positive and should motivate you to lace up your sneakers.
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