Riding is the best way to improve your mood

Scientific research has confirmed that exercise can not only improve physical health, but also improve mental health.

Which exercise can best make you feel good? Researchers have explored the relationship between sports and mental health, and found that group sports are the most conducive to mental health, followed by cycling.

Whether it’s outdoor cycling or indoor dynamic cycling, they have good results.

This study, published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, is the first to explore the impact of different sports on mood and mental health, and the scale of the study is very large.

Researchers analyzed how many times and days in the past month subjects felt “in a bad mood” due to stress, depression, or emotional problems.

The results showed that sports activities that usually had to be conducted in a group manner could bring greater help than sports that were performed alone.

The report shows that people who engage in team sports such as baseball and basketball have 22.3% fewer days in a month when they are in a bad mood than those who do not exercise.

Cycling, aerobic exercise or a gym ranked third, jogging fourth, and doing yoga and tai chi boxing ranked fifth.

The following is the degree of mood improvement after one month of engaging in different sports: group sports 22.3%, cycling 21.6%, aerobic exercise or gym 20.1%, running or jogging 19%, yoga or tai chi boxing 18.9%, ice or water sports 18%, walking 17.7%, housework 11.8%, the main author of the report, and assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University Adam Chekroud, said that group sports can bring additional help because of their social content, while cycling Jogging, yoga, and tai chi boxing can lift your mood just by doing them yourself.

“I hope that further research in the future can explore more carefully why doing this particular exercise can especially make you feel good, and try to think about the possibility of differentiation, so that different people can find the type of exercise that can bring them the most happiness.”.

How long is exercise best for mental health? Researchers have found that exercising for 30 to 60 minutes is the best for mental health, with 45 minutes being the most helpful for improving mental health, and exercising 3 to 5 times a week can best reduce days of bad mood.

Dr.

Chakrau said that the more exercise, the better.

“For example, exercising for more than 90 minutes will not bring more benefits.”.

The data from this survey, which analyzed the exercise habits and mental health data filled out by 1.2 million adults in the United States to the CDC, are to some extent not random sampling and cannot explain whether people in a bad mood have little motivation to exercise, but the report can still show the correlation between exercise and mental health.

On average, no matter what kind of exercise you are engaged in, as long as you exercise, the number of days in a month when you are in a bad mood can be reduced from 3.4 days to 2 days.

Dr.

Chuck Law said, “You can say that as long as you exercise, you can improve mental health by 43%.”.

In people who have been diagnosed with a depressive tendency, exercise has a particularly significant effect on improving mood; Previous studies have also shown that taking antidepressants in combination with exercise is more effective in combating depression than taking drugs alone..
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