{"id":18183,"date":"2023-09-11T19:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T01:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshhope.us\/the-role-of-exercise-in-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T19:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T01:31:53","slug":"the-role-of-exercise-in-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshhope.us\/es\/the-role-of-exercise-in-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Exercise in Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mike Jacquart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am not a clinician or a dietitian, but I do know from my own experiences that exercise plays a role in our mental health \u2013 perhaps an important one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I have suffered from depression, sometimes for extensive periods, but even during my darkest days I was often successful at finding time to exercise \u2013 more specifically, riding my bicycle. My line of thinking was, there were a LOT of things out of my control, but one thing I DID have control over, was whether or not to ride my bike. I felt that if I did not accomplish anything else that particular day, I could at the very least say that I got some exercise on my bike, usually for three miles, sometimes longer. (Don\u2019t give me too much credit for this \u2013 physical conditions have since limited me to walking these days, but hey, that\u2019s still good, right?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Huffington Post lists 13 mental health benefits of exercise at https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/03\/27\/mental-health-benefits-exercise_n_2956099.html<\/a>. I don\u2019t particularly agree with all of them, but I definitely concur with some, namely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n