THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF A HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFESTYLE

y, with two or more days between exercise. One would than consider that the higher amount of exercise (longer duration, high intensities and higher frequency) done would result to greater psychological and psychological effects. Up to a point this is true but this can lead to over training (long periods of high vigorous levels of activity) and can have similar effects as under/no training as the body has little time to rest and recover and becomes more prone to injury and illness.
             A daily light moderate routine combined with more vigorous activities to be done every other day has an optimal effect on maintaining an equal balance of work and rest.
             Sleep has as a very important role in a healthy lifestyle as does being active with exercise. However there are no set sleeping times or amount of hours to gain the maximum effects. It all depends on the person, as elite athletes have been known to sleep as little as 6 hour or as much as 10 hours and still give high winning performances. It is recommended that about eight is needed for a good night's sleep for all adults. During middle age, this is when sleeping problems like insomnia have been known to increase and gets worse thought to old age. Although no one has been known to have died as a result of suffering directly from insomnia, about a third of the adult population suffer from insomnia, and is associated with increased mortality, psychiatric disturbances, and decreased productivity and performance, causing increased stress and depression. Regular participation of exercise has been proven to decrease Insomnia, as well as curing sleeping problems and poor sleeping patterns. Exercise is regarded to be an alternative to sleeping pills as there are less or no negative effects. Good sleeping patterns has well established physiological and psychology calming effects, the notion that exercise promote
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