How Exercise Helps Boost Your Mood

October 01, 2024
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September 30, 2024
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Regular exercise is known to have many physical benefits by helping build strength, balance and your cardiovascular system. But did you know that exercise also helps boost your overall mood and mental health naturally?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

1). Meredith’s personal experiences in working with clients of all ages and some of their views and feedback on how exercise has helped them mentally overall.

2). How advancements in studying exercise over the years has improved and how we know much more about this correlation between mood and exercise than in the past.

3). How moving around your living space and not staying dormant for long can have immediate effects on your mood especially if you haven’t been physically active over a period of time.

4). The different positive effects that regular exercise has on not just your mood, but your confidence levels, physical posture and overall outlook on life.

5). Some of Meredith’s exercise suggestions you can try which are easy like walking and/or upper and lower body movements that can be done in the seated position.

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We hope the information we’ve shared in this episode is helpful to you or someone you know who may need help with their overall mental health and mood. Mental wellness is very important no matter what your age and exercise is one of the best natural stimulants to help keep your mood balanced towards positivity, confidence and happiness.

Team Meredith

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Meet Your Host
Meredith Chen is an AFAA-certified personal and group fitness trainer and the host of the popular YouTube channel, Senior Fitness with Meredith. She has been training for over 15 years, has been endorsed by healthcare professionals and physical therapists, and has shadowed top industry experts to continuously create the best and safest content for her viewers and participants.

Meredith became interested in working with older adults after a client asked her to become the Fitness Coordinator at a local senior community, and the rest is history! Meredith has a passion for motivating others to lead happy and healthy lifestyles and is dedicated to helping seniors enrich their mental, physical, and nutritional wellness. Her goals are to help all audiences in their health and fitness journey, be an overall inspiration, and help others reach their goals.

Meredith says, “I see fitness not just as a ‘go, go, go,’ ‘push yourself harder,’ ‘run faster’ objective. It is more purposeful, more long-term in benefits, and for overall wellness.”
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