MODERATE EXERCISE

30 minutes | 3 times per week. 30 minutes don’t have to be continuous

BENEFITS:

• Reduces anxiety, depression and negative mood

• Provides stress relief

• Increases energy and reduce tiredness

• Changes your physiologic reactivity to stress

• Boosts your mood in the short term, both immediately and for the 24 hours that follow.

• Decreases the amount of cortisol released in response to stress

STUDIES:

• Exercise for Mental Health

• The Effects of Acute Exercise on Mood, Cognition, Neurophysiology, and Neurochemical Pathways: A Review

• Physical fitness and prior physical activity are both associated with less cortisol secretion during psychosocial stress