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Today Public Health England launched a new edition of Health Matters focusing on how physical activity prevents and manages long-term health conditions.

The government’s prevention green paper highlights that becoming more active is good for our mental and physical health, and reduces our risk of developing a number of health conditions. It also sets out the ambition of getting everybody active in the 2020s, including those of us who are already living with a health condition.Read the full editionContinue reading “Today Public Health England launched a new edition of Health Matters focusing on how physical activity prevents and manages long-term health conditions.”

Tip for building an exercise habit; use a conditioned cue at beginning of workout followed by encoding of personal intrinsic reward to exercising.

…if you don’t see the external results you want quickly enough, you’re likely quit. This is why habit formation is essential to creating life-long behavioral changes.Full article 💡 https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-athletes-way/201609/one-two-punch-cue-and-reward-makes-exercise-habit

Immediate rewards shown to be the strongest predictor of persistence and adherence when in pursuit of long term goal-related activities.

Overall, whereas delayed rewards may motivate goal setting and the intentions to pursue long-term goals, a meta-analysis of our studies finds that immediate rewards (eg. enjoyment) are more strongly associated with actual persistence in a long-term goal.Full article 🛍️ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167216676480

Exercising at 70 – 80% of max HR is the optimal zone for maximum endorphin release.

Aerobic exercise is known to activate the body’s stress response, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and yet many people engage in sports like running because they perceive its effects as relaxing. Solving this apparent contradiction calls for a distinction between “good stress” and “bad stress,”…Full article 😺 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703784/

Listening to your favourite music during low intensity exercise can decrease stress

Listening to your favourite music during low intensity exercise at 40% of VO2 max E.g. walking or jogging, can decrease stress caused by fatigue therefore increase comfort and enjoyment.Full details 🎵 https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=1&q=effect+of+music+on+heart+rate+when+exercising+&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3Dp1PpsJBIbX0J