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Anaerobic and aerobic exercises help improve mood, self-esteem, and stress levels.
10: Exercise has clearly been shown to have a positive effect on your mood. Winters are especially notorious for influencing the fluctuations of one’s mood (also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder), and if recent rains are any indication of Dallas residents are in for this winter, it could prove to be a particularly long season.
Regular physical activity has been shown to help reduce stress and anxiety (hello holiday shopping) and combat depression. When you exercise, you release endorphins into your system, which are essentially feel-good hormones. Aerobic and/or anaerobic activity has also been linked to a quality, restful sleep, something that could be very hard to come by as you worry about how to feed 17 people at Thanksgiving dinner.
9: In a similar boat, exercise can also help improve self-esteem. It’s not just the physical self that chances, it’s also the mental self. Exercise gives great opportunity to being able to gauge your progress and your successes as you become healthier. Setting goals and accomplishing or even beating them is a great boost to one’s mentality.
Of course, there’s something extremely satisfying about being able to fit into that old pair of jeans, or being able to shop for a smaller size. The compliments about your new figure ain’t so bad either.
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