Exercise best treatment for depression.

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In a funk? Do you:
a) reach for a bag of potato chips,
b) call a friend,
c) pop an extra anti-depressant, or
d) head for the gym to sweat out the sadness?

For years, studies have shown that exercise is one of the best ways to treat a range of mental health issues. A new analysis of that whole body of research makes this clearer than ever.

This new study, which was conducted by a team of 13 Australian scientists, was published in February in the British Medical Journal’s British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Since so much research has been done in the field of exercise and mental health, the Australian team sought to examine the totality of the evidence.

To that end, they looked at nearly a hundred reviews, comprising over a thousand studies done, on over 100,000 participants. In other words, they conducted a “systematic [review] of systematic reviews, synthesizing a vast evidence base.”

EXERCISE BEST TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION

Mental health is often pushed to the fringe of health care, but half of all people experience some mental health distress at some point in their lives, and more than 10 percent of people worldwide are currently struggling with mental health.

Anxiety is the most common problem—and seems to be becoming more pronounced among children and younger adults—while depression poses the greatest burden to normal life function.

The Australian researchers discovered that exercise provided the best results when used for treating depression. More specifically, exercise was 150 percent more effective than pharmaceuticals or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

It was also better than psychological consultation or “talk therapy.” In fact, exercise was shown to reduce depressive symptoms by 42 to 60 percent, whereas talk therapy and pharmaceuticals only reduced symptoms between 22 percent and 37 percent.

Exercise was shown to be the best treatment for both anxiety and depression, even though pharmaceuticals are the most commonly recommended treatment for both.

Any Kind of Exercise Works

Every kind of exercise worked. The numerous studies looked at many types and schedules of exercise, and they all worked—doing any movement regularly (including dancing, walking, and yoga) was a big improvement over doing nothing.

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Three facts of life:
1) Resistance training is a must for cardio-vascular health
2) Fat acceptance is stupid and dangerous
3) Toxic masculinity doesn't exist.
Toxic musculinity exists. It is when a guy takes danabol laced protein powder, have 17-18 inch arms and still don't even want to bench his own body weight. Even more toxic is women with gifted genetics and well developed legs doing squats with 10 kg. Very toxic.
 
Toxic musculinity exists. It is when a guy takes danabol laced protein powder, have 17-18 inch arms and still don't even want to bench his own body weight.
Even more toxic & absurd is, when that 18inch arms celebrity dies due to roid abuse everyone blamed weight training.
 
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Link please. I haven't heard of any celebrity dying from riod use (they don't abuse) Marathon running CEO's die all the time though.
he probably meant bodybuilders. Celebs that died has some heart conditions/genetic issues ASAIK.
There is a thread in this very forum where a lot of experts pitch in on how weight training causes death and diarrhea. Go figure !!
What! Where?
 
Link please. I haven't heard of any celebrity dying from riod use (they don't abuse) Marathon running CEO's die all the time though.
he probably meant bodybuilders. Celebs that died has some heart conditions/genetic issues ASAIK.

What! Where?
Nah i meant celebs and bodybuilders both. Somehow they all have heart conditions and other issues with 20inch arms & 10% body fat year around, Noone ever admits to use roids, so never know. I'm not naming anyone here. :)

I dont remember participating in that thread, has to be in this General talk section.
 
Its been 3 weeks since I have been using the common gym that our housing society has. It has 3 machines. Treadmill, cycle and an elliptical. I use all 3. I spend 15 minutes on each machine and then do some weights. It feels good. Healthiest I've ever been. Spend atleast an hour in the gym daily.

The problem is I don't understand most of the dials and settings on the treadmill. It shows me the distance, speed, time duration, calories, inclination. The speed seems to be a constant. How do I know/convert these values into KM/Hr or MPH? The highest I've ever done is 11.0 speed at 10 inclination but only for 2 minutes (once I nearly collapsed). For the first couple of weeks I used the treadmills in build "Program" feature which automatically varies speed and inclination depending on the program selected. But last week I've shifted to a manual approach. Set the speed at 8.0 (much more comfortable) and inclination at 3. I do this for 15 minutes and then shift to the next machine. I burn around ~150 calories (what the machine shows). How accurate is this "calories burned" count and distance covered count? Am I doing this right?

On the elliptical, i set a program for cardio and input all parameters. Keep it at a maximum level of 10 and go for about 20 minutes. This machine requires getting used to and is difficult at start. Sometimes I feel as though my hearts gonna jump out of my chest.

Cycle is fun. Has varying tension levels and easy to use. Senior citizen's in our society prefer it.

Sometimes when I get back home my chest starts hurting, feels like it's being pulled. It was very prominent during the first week but has decreased since I've started manual mode on treadmill.

As for the diet, eh, ur, I don't have one. I weight around 78Kgs and have got a healthy BMI. But the first week of gym was really really hard on my stomach. Ate everything I could find at an arms length. Once I had a midnight craving and ate two packets of pasta.

I burn about ~400 calories per day (according to the machines). Is this alright if I'd want to lose some weight?

This whole gym thing is new to me and don't understand a lot about it apart from me enjoying it. Any help/feedback regarding the treadmill and diet will be appreciated. Thanks for reading.
 
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The problem is I don't understand most of the dials and settings on the treadmill. It shows me the distance, speed, time duration, calories, inclination. The speed seems to be a constant. How do I know/convert these values into KM/Hr or MPH?
The speed is in KPH. Usually it goes till 16 or 20 kph. 20 is a bit faster than marathon speed but slower than sprinting. You increase your stamina and speed day by day. You then, will be able to do 20 for a minute or two. Inclination is in degrees. It also goes till 20 approximately. And about programs, it's personal. I've never used them. Number of calories is a very rough estimation. Your body become efficient at everything you keep doing for long. Experts runners don't spend as many calories as noobs. Then, there's body weight and a thousand different factors.

You don't have to do all 3 cardio everyday. You can choose to one each day for 15 to 30 minutes. Spend rest of the time with the weights. Also, 99% people don't know how to run and they end up ruining their knees in the long run. So do learn to unlearn running and then relearn it the proper way.

This whole gym thing is new to me and don't understand a lot about it apart from me enjoying it. Any help/feedback regarding the treadmill will be appreciated and diet will be appreciated. Thanks for reading.
It's amazing that you are enjoying the gym in your first month. Most people find it the hardest to get through this initial phase. Working out to your limits gives you nice dopamine induced high (like alcohol). Enjoy it. I'm addicted to it. For diet, you can start watching nutrition youtube channels. Go with reputed youtubers with high view/follow count. But please avoid all Indian fitness and nutritionists youtubers at all costs. They all preach BS.
 
Working out to your limits gives you nice dopamine induced high (like alcohol). Enjoy it. I'm addicted to it.
Is that a runner's high you're referring to? I only got that past the 5-mile mark on a 10 mile run. You got to work for it. Not alcohol like unless the stuff you consume is really really good. More like chills down your spine kind of thing like with MDMA or ecstasy

I've never had it with weights in a gym. I never did long distances on a treadmill which was mostly for cooling off at the end of a weights workout.
 
Is that a runner's high you're referring to? I only got that past the 5-mile mark on a 10 mile run. You got to work for it. Not alcohol like unless the stuff you consume is really really good. More like chills down your spine kind of thing like with MDMA or ecstasy

I've never had it with weights in a gym. I never did long distances on a treadmill which was mostly for cooling off at the end of a weights workout.
Yes. The runner's' high. You get it when you push the body beyond the limits. Given the option, body doesn't like to build the muscles because they cost a lot of energy to built and maintain. We have to show it to the body what we have got isn't enough. Only after that we get a dopamine and testosterone shot. I dunno mdma or ecstasy. But the high mental buzz is very clear for those who can introspect and identify hormone driven feeling and emotions.
 
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