New Gym Ideas

Are you bored with your gym routine? Than try these new moves to keep your routine fresh and bore free. Dry Tri:- Try rowing for 1.5km, bike it for 6km and run for 3 km. Note your total time and try to beat it next time you visit the gym. Cooper It: Named after a fitness test, do a 10-minute warm-up then run, cycle, cross train or walk as hard and fast as you can for 12 minutes and make a note of how far you went. Next time you do it try and beat the distance. Go Hard or Go Home: Pick six machines and work as hard as you possibly can on each of them for five minutes. Because it seems like a short workout, you’ll work more intensely than if you aimed to do 30 minutes straight.

Moderate Exercise can help and prevent Depression

According to recent research from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, moderate exercise can not only help treat depression but can prevent its development in the long term. In the first study of its kind to focus exclusively on the impact exercise has in maintaining positive mental health and its role in preventing depression later on in life, Professor Guy Faulkner and PhD candidate George Mammen's reviewed 26 years of research findings and discovered that even minimum levels of exercise can help prevent depression across all age groups. They acknowledge that other factors can influence the condition such as genetics however there was enough evidence found from the study to conclude that regardless of a person's predispositions, there was a clear implication for everyone. Mammen commented, "It's definitely worth taking note that if you're currently active, you should sustain it. If you're not physically active you should initiate the habit. This review shows promising evidence that the impact of being active goes far beyond the physical."