Regular Exercise Adherence: Case Study

Remaining physically and mentally active can have a significant impact on their wellbeing. Exercise such as

While the research of Blumenthal et al. (2007) focused on exercise being effective in reducing self-reported depressive symptoms, Diaz and Motta (2008) and Motta, Kuligowski, and Marino (2010) looked at the positive effects of exercise on depression, anxiety and PTSD. The theory of exercise’s positive effect on mental health has heavily been focused on

Father, son and daughter Johnson tolerate physical activity very well and all have shared a lifelong interest in swimming and biking. All would agree that regular exercise reduces stress and improves coping abilities for them. Mother however has never participated in regular physical fitness and does not tolerate strenuous activities very well. Strenuous activities are avoided now primarily because of the (bladder) stress incontinence problem she has. She denies feeling any benefits of stress reduction when she is active (Johnson family, personal communication, June 24, 2012).

Since 1990s, many scientists agree that exercise has positive impacts on people’s physical health and mental health (SIME WE, 1987). From Morgan and O’Connor’s research, people can reduce stress and state anxiety by doing physical activities; also gain emotional pleasure from the process (Morgan and O’Connor, 1988). Later in 1997, Landers states that physical activities can reduce people depression after weeks of regular and routine exercise. In addition, people can benefit from more

Since behavior implications is one of the common associations with depression. One must learn to change behavior to overcome the illness. It is clear that the case has been constructed around the impact of exercise reducing the risk of physical health problems such as CAD, some cancers, obesity, diabetes, and to a lesser extent musculo-skeletal problems such as low back pain and osteoporosis.(Biddle, Fox, Boutcher) To date, much less attention has been paid to the contribution of exercise to the prevention and treatment of the increasingly burgeoning problem of mental disorders, illnesses, and general mental malaise.(Biddle, Fox, Boutcher) Since the out booming influence of physical exercise to achieve optimal health, the focus has been on the productive effects towards physical health and attention has been overlooked towards the benefit in mental ailments.

Once the symptoms of exercise addiction are clearly identified in a patient, medical and health professionals should seek appropriate treatments tailored to find the source or route of their addiction (Lane, 2008). Additionally, these professionals must differentiate if the addiction occurs in the absence of an eating disorder. In some cases, an addiction to exercise is typically a dissatisfaction with the individual’s physical appearance. Under stress from this displeasure, exercise is rationalized as a positive solution to combat this instead of turning to other potentially addictive behaviors (Landolfi, 2012).

Aim: Discuss about individualized exercising prescriptions and instruct the rehabilitation treatments of COPD patients for 8 weeks, observe the effects on patients’ exercise tolerance and pulmonary capacity.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 40 million adults ages 18 and older, this is about 18% of the population (National Institute of Mental Health). Anxiety disorders are associated with the impairment of several domains of functioning, including the impairment of relationships, care giving and job productivity (DeBoer, Powers, Utschig, Otto & Smits, 2012). Anxiety disorders are a growing concern in our society, especially among college-aged teenagers/young adults. For quite some time, people have been looking for ways to decrease their levels of anxiety without the use of traditional prescribed medicine. There has been several studies done that show that there is a positive correlation between increased physical activity and an increase in a person’s state of well-being and mood patterns as well as a decrease in their anxiety levels. According to Broman-Fulks, Berman, Rabian, and Webster, “Aerobic exercise has been shown to reduce generalized anxiety, and may also reduce anxiety sensitivity through exposure to feared physiological sensations.” There is a great deal of evidence that backs up the notion that exercise is indeed an effective way to reduce one’s symptoms of anxiety.

Exercise Relieves Anxiety Stress and Depression fitness center is a family owned business that was formed in 2009. ERASD Fitness Center grew out of a desire to help family members suffering from depression, anxiety and stress through exercise routines. Without certain medical credentials we felt useless but knew we had to do something that would be beneficial in helping the mind, and body of loved ones dealing with those sort of issues. We started out as a small group of instructors with a degree of professionalism in the field of fitness, medicine and management. It began in the basement of our family home and eventually took over most of the 4 bed room house with fitness classes and private mentoring sessions. We began teaching life coach classes coupled with body strong techniques for strength, weight training and low impact exercises as a means of providing some constructive mentoring time with the youth in our family who were suffering with this illness. They all had one common denominator and that was they were bored. This boredom often lead to them making wrong choices.

This text, “At-A-Glance”, developed as a presentation by the CDC, describes the health benefits of exercise for each major age group. It provides examples of moderate physical activity, gives statistics about activity in the US among different groups of people, and convinces its reader of the numerous benefits of partaking in regular physical activity. According to this text, physical activity doesn’t have to be extremely vigorous to be beneficial to one’s health. This is supported by examples of moderate physical activity, such as bicycling (for 30 minutes, about 5 miles), taking walks (2 miles in 30 minutes), shoveling snow (for 15 minutes), and participating in sports such as volleyball and basketball for 45 minutes and 15 minutes, respectively. This is important for me,

Physical inactivity is risk factor for several chronic diseases, including obesity, depression, osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes (Schuzer & Graves, 2004), disability and death (Lin et al , 2007). Exercise, by increasing fitness, can help lower the risks for these diseases (Brady & Nies, 1999; Resnick, 2001; Duchman & Berg, 2006; cited in Abolfazl et al, 2011), and help lower overall morbidity and mortality (Pate et al, 1995; cited in Schuzer & Graves, 2004) and is generally associated with physical and psychosocial benefits for older adults (Lin et al , 2007; Ringsberg et al 2001, cited in Abolfazl et al, 2011). Being physically fit also helps maintain functional ability and prolong independence across life span (Schuzer & Graves, 2004; Brady & Nies, 1999 cited in Abolfazl et al, 2011), which were two of the most cited factors by frail elders to consider themselves ‘healthy’ in a 2012 swedish study (Ebrahimi et al, 2012). Although exercise brings health benefits to elderly people, it’s a difficult task to persuade this age group to become physically active (Schuzer & Graves, 2004) and according to a 1996 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, older adults aged 65 and older have the highest inactivity level of all age groups (cited in Schuzer & Graves, 2004); with only one third of this population reporting regular exercise (Clark 1999, cited in Abolfazl et al,

In this essay I will be discussing the ideas and topics of the fitness article: How Exercise May Protect Against Depression authored by Gretchen Reynolds. The Well Blog section of The New York Times website is where this particular article can be located. This topic was selected by myself over an array of other options due to the significant effect and the impact that depression has had on my family's mental health history.

General recommendations are now widely accepted as to the general advantages of exercise in terms of physical health, such as its ability to prevent weight gain, coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and osteoporosis.14 It appears that health promotion schemes have shied away from extolling exercise’s psychological benefits. After all, there is no government campaign, no public policy initiative, which pontificates exercise on account of a concern for mental wellbeing. Although many people would identify that exercise has a positive influence on mood state, it appears that, generally speaking, this is regarded as a positive correlation, rather than a causal relationship. The ‘healthy body, healthy mind’ concept is thus, for many, a heuristic utopia, rather than a scientifically proven

Society is plagued with a billion-dollar problem that almost everyone contributes to in their daily proceedings. This issue is people being unproductive at work. This is an issue that affects almost everyone and is much more of a problem than many people realize. How large this issue this is will be discussed in the following for example a good portion of a persons work day can be wasted away due to unproductivity. This report will focus on why exercise is a great way to combat this issue. Exercise just doesn’t help increase a person’s productivity it also has many other benefits for a person from improving your mood to even affecting the amount of money a person can make at their job. There are many other benefits to exercise that will be discussed in this report as well. People have lots of excuses not to exercise from their busy schedules to lack of motivation to lack of workout knowledge. How a person can take action against these issues will be discussed in the forthcoming. Unproductivity is billion-dollar issue that be helped with a minimal amount of daily exercise.

They found that an exercise training programme could be an alternative treatment for MDD. Although antidepressants had a more rapid response than exercise, after 16 weeks of exercise the effectiveness in reducing depression was equal to the anti-depressants. A study also found that a single bout of exercise could result in substantial improvements in mood, which shows that it’s not just duration and frequency. However, it may be that the improvement in mood is only temporary (Dimeo et al., 2001). Lawler and Hopker (2001) stated that effectiveness of exercise on depression couldn’t be determined due to lack of quality research based on clinical populations. They also wrote that the explanations of the results may have been that depressed patients who did regular exercise could have got positive feedback from other people and a sense of self worth, which may act as a diversion from negative thoughts. Physical activity was found to be linked with less coexisting depression, which remains the same after controlling for gender, age, and race. The results of the study showed that physical activity is helpful with medical problems, life stressors and quality of sleep (Harris et al., 2006).