Mental health and exercise

BeachLife Physiotherapy • 30 July 2024

Mental health and exercise


Regular physical activity can help manage anxiety and depressive symptoms. It can improve your mood and self-esteem. It will help reduce stress. Regular exercise also helps you sleep better and have more energy along with many other benefits to general health.

 

Research has proven both a short term improvement in mood as well as better long term symptom management for depression, anxiety and distress amongst individuals who increase their physical activity and exercise to the recommended healthy levels.

How can our Exercise Physiologists help?
- Provide education on exercise’s role for mental health
- Work with you to create an exercise plan and provide regular reviews of progress and difficulties so that you can stay on track
- We can help you find the “right” exercise for you according to your personal preferences and lived experiences
- Provide you with resources to assist you to achieve regular exercise

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