Exercise has a powerful influence on mood as it causes a plethora of changes in your brain including reduced inflammation, neural growth, the removal of chemicals that contribute to feelings of stress and anxiousness and the release of powerful chemicals that lift your spirits.
We all know that exercise is beneficial to our physical health with regular moderate exercise helping reducing morbidity and mortality rates in all ages, sexes, genders, races and body types to even improving sleep and cognition. However, physical activity also plays a huge role in the mood of individuals and enhances psychological wellbeing,...
The fact that lockdown has led to a reduction in exercise nationwide is a reasonable assumption to make. In such an unprecedented time unlike anything anyone has experienced before, and cutting of many of our resources for regular daily habits and physical activity, this may not come as a surprise to many, however the sheer scale of the impact...
From discussion in the previous section about how lockdown has changed our exercise habits we established from further research but also our own survey that the public kindly participated in to share their experiences, that overall people did exercise less even though the use of certain forms of exercise did increase. Expanding on this we were able...