Has exercise helped your mental health?
Has exercise helped your mental health?
Just a simple question to those of you suffering from depression, anxiety or are just going through a tough time. Now or sometime in the past.
Have you tried exercising, and did it help? What kind, and how did it make you feel?
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Tried it for six months, mostly body weight exercises and dumbbells, three to five times a week. Aside from a moderate improvement in fitness (which I have no interest in), it changed nothing at all. No increased energy, no happy feelings, just a waste of time.
I find cardio to have a much more significant impact on my mood and energy. I can go into a run feeling like a miserable slug and come out of it feeling accomplished and more at ease. YMMV though
Did you lose any weight? How is your diet? Feeling better for me was the weight loss, though depression makes it hard to fucking exercise