How does exercise help with stress?
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1. It lowers blood pressure

Exercise can help lower blood pressure, taking away some of the physical symptoms stress can cause. Sweating regular makes your heart stronger, pumping more blood with less effort. This causes the force on your arteries to decrease, lowering your blood pressure.
 

2. It lowers your heart rate.

Doing relaxation exercise such as yoga can provide relief to your heart rate as yoga helps to regulate your breathing. The easiest and most effective way to lower your heart rate is to exercise regularly, get your heart pumping and feel the burn. This strengthens your heart rate, training it to pump more blood and leads to a slower resting heart rate.
 


3. It can help with sleep problems.

Exercise can help to tire you out, doll down your anxiety and depressive feelings, that linger before you sleep. It can help to regulate your body’s natural sleep-wake rhythms which makes it easier to relax.
 

4. It can control your appetite.

Stress eating is a common side effect with stress, you overindulge in fatty foods to help feel some release. Exercise can help to reduce the effects of your appetite, stopping you from overindulging.
 

5. It can reduce anxiety and depression.

A single exercise session can have an immediate effect on your mood. Exercising for at least 20 minutes a day can reduce side effects of depression by 52%. Exercise is an effective way to dealing with depression and anxiety.

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