Monday 9 February 2015

How sport can release stress

           Life is filled with a variety of things, whether good or bad, positive or negative. It is all a part and parcel of life. Without the pressure of life we certainly did not mean. Many people who try to not put themselves in a stressful situation. Pressure is not required because it came uninvited. Stress can finalize thought surely trigger actions that will be used as a coloring life experience. Different people have different ways to reduce stress, but the most effective is playing sport.
          Exercise happens to be one of the best ways to reduce stress. Stress causes your body build up extra energy, preparing it for fight or else. Exercise burns energy and reduces your stress levels. Exercise metabolizes stress hormones in your blood and increases levels of your body’s built in anti-anxiety hormones, making you feel calmer. Exercise also can make you more efficient and energetic, so that you feel less overwhelmed by stresses you do face. For example, just walking regularly can increase the level of beta-endorphins and brain – derived neurotrophic factors (both groups are neurotransmitters or hormones that help the body feel pleasure or increase memory) in the brain, decrease anxiety and tension, and elevates one’s mood. In addition, all exercise helps divert energy from worrying and anxiety.
          In addition, whether you are building muscle or stamina, all types of exercise relaxes tense muscles and tissue. These can strongly contribute to stress-related aches and pains such as neck or back pains and headaches. Exercise is also particularly good when it’s competitive. This will enable to raise your game to a higher performance level that you would otherwise achieve. Try a sport with an opponent such as tennis or badminton, or a situation where you can set up a race against someone else, such as cycling, swimming or even power walking with a friend.
          But whatever exercise you try, you will soon discover its major benefit is that it allows you to forget your problems. Exercise helps you to shed the day’s irritations and the focus you place on your feel good exercise results in higher energy levels and optimism can help you feel clearer and calmer. Not only do you become completely absorbed in what you are doing at the time. But the positive endorphins that exercise releases will also help you maintain a more positive outlook afterwards.
          Exercise is a great stress modular. Stress is anything you say it is, and we all feel it differently. The things that stress me out may not be worrisome to you at all. Whatever the cause of your stress reaction, it is the healthy mode of operation for your brains, and it was designed to give our brains the tools to function during the fight or flight state. When we experience stress, our brains are aroused by adrenaline and focused by the release of dopamine.
          When stress become overwhelming or chronic, however, it can start to erode the neural pathways that keep our mind connected. The continual release of stress hormones is detrimental to our brains and bodies alike. It is thought that chronic exercise decreases stress by raising the physical and mental stress threshold, elevating self-esteem, and stimulating the release of brain derived neurotropic factor (BDNF), which increases brain plasticity and neuron growth and combats the effects of chronic cortisol exposure.


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