I exercise about 1-2 hours six days a week with a rest day on Saturday, which is more than what the study recommends. I've been doing this for almost 3 years now, and overall I think I feel much better mentally than before I started. I definitely look and feel better physically. I have more muscle, more energy, and a better posture. All this has helped me stave off (but far from eliminate) some mental issues like low confidence and anxiety.
To be fair, it says "too much" exercising. The article was kinda dumb to be honest. Everything that is too much is really bad for your health. If you exercise for 1-12 hours daily I don't think it should have a bad effect on your health. I work out 1 hour for 5 days. I think we're safe.
Anybody got the full text? It's a cross-sectional study, which means they're data-mining for correlation (and the title of the study says as much). From what I can glean it looks like the finding that team sports are better for morale than solo sports (shocker!) is every bit as useful as the finding that people with obsessive exercise routines have poor mental health (shocker II!).
Thanks. I don't know what your read is but to me, what the study actually says is that people who don't take off at least a couple days a month from exercise tend to have a higher stress burden than people who do, and people who exercise at least once a week have a lower stress burden than people who don't. I wouldn't call that a surprising result.
I didnt bough the study.. I admit it say nothing in the summary, but I highly doubt they made an article of 2 pages without some back up (even remote) from the original study Especially since there is nothing sensationalist about it.. compared to Did Astronomers Find Evidence of an Alien Civilization?
When I saw the headline I thought it might be likely exercising hours everyday might be a symptom not a cause. … The authors suggest that people doing extreme amounts of exercise might have obsessive characteristics which could place them at greater risk of poor mental health. it is still somewhat unclear whether inactivity is a symptom of or contributor to poor mental health. The authors of the new research note that their study cannot confirm cause and effect.