How Exercise Can Help You Endure Bad Times?
Are you having a tough time, personally, professionally, or academically?
Are you having problems to sleep, overthinking about your problems?
In this article, I will reflect on how exercise can help you endure bad times.
I really hope that your situation improves if you're having difficulties.
Some advantages that physical activity will bring to your life, are:
Increase physical strength.
Increase mental fortitude.
Increase willpower.
Cleanse your mind of negative thoughts.
Improve your mood.
Improve your sleep.
Improve your general well-being.
I know it's very hard to force yourself to move your body when you are having tough times, mostly when you only want to do nothing, watch some content, and forget about everything.
The problem is that the time you are spending idle, overeating, drinking, or overconsuming, won´t help you find a solution to your problems, and will only disconnect your mind for a short period of time, to help you escape from your reality.
Those bad habits won´t help you get better sleep at night, and your problems will be there the next day waiting for you.
Before sleep you will continue overthinking, a habit that will only get you a bad night´s sleep, increasing the chances of having a bad day the next day due to the lack of proper rest.
Exercising often will help you in two ways toward a better night´s sleep:
Body tiredness increases the chances of sleeping better.
Your mind will be less “fresh” to wander about your problems generating fewer negative thoughts, and it also will enjoy the blissful feeling achieved after the physical activity is done.
It's not required to have a perfect training session or make things complicated, just walking and moving your body a little extra out of your comfort zone. That will be enough to make you feel much better and increase your chances to get better sleep at night.
So, you hate to workout?
What do you have to lose if you move your body a little bit?
Are you afraid of losing weight, getting stronger, or improving your daily life?
Will training make you feel much worse than you actually feel without moving your body?
What do you think about giving physical activity an opportunity to help you?
You already know how bad you feel without it.
You may regret doing many things in life, but you will never regret a workout. You will feel much better, guaranteed.
Maybe try new things to improve your daily life?
