While most men are familiar with the significance of physical health and exercise, not all are aware of the link between physical and mental health. The connection between physical and mental health works both ways. Men with poor physical health have a high risk of developing mental health issues and Men with poor mental health have a high risk of obtaining chronic physical conditions. A recent study informed men who experience physical health problems like diabetes, joint pain, and heart disease, are three times more likely to be susceptible to mental health issues. However, the simple solution to staying physically and mentally healthy is exercising. Now, questions arise:

  • How can exercising help reduce mental health issues?
  • How can exercising create happiness?
  • How can exercise be part of our healthy lifestyle?
  • How can we make working out a fun activity and not stress about it?

Exercising Helps Reduce Mental Health Issues

Exercising helps boost our physical and mental health; Our body has a natural healing mechanism if used the right way, it manufactures both good and bad hormones.

However, for the good hormones to be produced, exercising plays a role. Exercising creates and builds the production of feel-good hormones known as endorphins.

Endorphins are primarily known to be natural pain killers produced in our brain, spinal cord, and many other parts of the body. They inhibit the perception of pain as they interact with the sense organs in our brain. In addition, they develop positive feelings and create pleasure in us. We can say endorphins are meditation in motion.

Furthermore, they suppress the stress hormones cortisol and reduce the negative effects of stress.

Lastly, endorphins improve our moods, keep us positive, reduce mental health issues, and they support the creation of a stronger immune system.

Exercise Creates Happiness

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Daily workouts make us feel accomplished and instil confidence in us. In many people, confidence is the key element for feeling happy and accomplished. And, working out regularly helps us build confidence.

For beginners, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and give up so to be persistent, we should start with small and realistic goals, we should stick with the plan, or start working with a personal trainer. To make it easier and accessible, all these features are available in workout apps like Welltech.

Nowadays, these apps have become very popular, and a fairly large amount of people are using them. These workout apps track our health and fitness and help improve our goals. In addition, they have special features like how to perform specific workouts, how to set training goals, specialized diets, and interaction with real live trainers. All these features not only make working out easier, but they keep us motivated.  Also, as we keep exercising, we strengthen and tone our body and as a result, it helps us improve our self-esteem and builds confidence. And, most importantly we feel happy and good about ourselves.

Exercise Creates Healthy Lifestyle

Exercise is powerful medicine and is an important part of creating a healthy lifestyle. Also, a healthy lifestyle means having a balanced day that includes exercising, eating nutritious food, and getting good sleep.

Exercise and eating nutritious food go hand in hand. To maintain our physical and mental well-being, it’s very important we fuel our bodies with the right food. And eating a healthy and nutritious meal consistently followed by daily exercise is the key to a healthy lifestyle. Moreover, if we are physically active, age is just a number. Any aged person who is physically active will have a healthier and happier life. In addition, regular physical activity combats lots of health conditions like stroke, high blood pressure, depression, anxiety, and many other conditions.

Exercise also improves our muscle strength and boosts our endurance. In addition, it helps us maintain healthy body weight. When we exercise, our body receives oxygen and nutrients that help our circulatory system work more efficiently. This makes our heart and lungs healthy and we will have more energy to perform daily chores. Lastly, daily exercise and good nutrition are the foundations of healthy living. They keep us fit, and energetic and they reduce the risk of illness.

Make Exercise A Fun Activity

Exercising should be a fun activity and enjoyable. If we enjoy it, we will always take out time for it. Exercising doesn’t have to be working out only in the Gym, we should see it as a celebration that our body can do. For example, we should not target to work out five times a week or lose two pounds a month as it might lead to disappointment. We should treat exercise as fun rather than just body movement to lose weight.

We should incorporate feel-good activities in exercising:  like walking the dog in the park, walking during the lunch break or in between classes, going to tennis courts with friends, taking the stairs instead of using the elevator, doing community service, walking around the house when we are in phone calls and walking around the block before and after dinner. These small activities will help us achieve the goals that we set and will make exercising more enjoyable.

Furthermore, when exercising, we can mix and alternate our workout activities to keep us motivated, like biking, rowing, or taking different fitness classes.  All these will help us be positive and proactive in our daily habits.

In conclusion, physical and mental well-being concord with each other. We should make exercise part of our lives and enjoy doing it. Consequently, this will create a healthy way of living and we will have a happier, healthier, and longer life.