Find Exercise You Enjoy: Personality Shapes Fitness Success ...

Find Exercise You Enjoy: Personality Shapes Fitness Success A recent study highlights how aligning exercise type with personality traits can improve enjoyment, adherence, and stress reduction. Extroverts thrived on high-intensity workouts, while those high in neuroticism preferred short bursts and valued privacy. Conscientious people were generally fitter but less motivated by enjoyment, focusing instead on health benefits. All participants who completed the program improved fitness regardless of personality. Notably, neurotic individuals showed the largest stress reduction after exercising. These findings support creating personalized exercise plans based on psychological profiles.

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They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression. That's kind of beautiful. https://t.co/9EQZXOtk7s

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A systematic review recently published in Mental Health and Physical Activity analyzed the results of 35 studies to look at the combined effects of mindfulness and exercise.

The results suggest that when combined, mindfulness and exercise might offer the most benefits for mental health.

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Many factors contribute to whether an exercise regimen is likely to suit a particular individual. It’s important to consider: Are you a morning person or a night person (Lark or Owl)? Do you enjoy spending time outdoors, or do you prefer not to deal with weather? Are you motivated by competition? Do you enjoy exercising to strong music and a drivin

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ANY exercise outperforms SSRI antidepressants btw

Dancing being remarkably great, but personally I believe strength training is very important because you increase muscle mass and bone density which helps you when you get older a lot!

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a 2017 Sports Medicine paper that fitness adaptations are influenced by an athlete’s neurobiology. In turn, both emotional stress and emotional state influence neurobiology. So two runners who do the same training session can adapt totally differently depending on their state of mind.

Jessica Freeborn • Exercise combined with mindfulness helps improve depression, anxiety

Gretchen Rubin • Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life

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