Effects of Exercise on Stress Management

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Stress[edit | edit source]

Stress may be defined as a state of threatened homeostasis, which is counteracted by adaptive processes involving affective, physiological, biochemical, and cognitive–behavioral responses in an attempt to regain homeostasis.[1]

Stress and Health[edit | edit source]

Stress management[edit | edit source]

Coping refers to a kind of behavioral or cognitive response or strategy to prevent or alleviate stress [23]. There are mainly two types of coping strategies: problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping. Problem focused coping refers to a way of coping through which people actively seek information or help to tackle a problem directly or diminish its impact, whereas emotion-focused coping refers to involvement in expressing emotion and altering expectation [23]. Problem-focused coping includes seeking counselors to get some advice to fix a problem, while emotion-focused coping includes blaming, venting, denying, avoiding, or just chatting with friends to express feelings. Emotion-focused coping,

Exercises and Stress[edit | edit source]

Physiology of exercises behind stress management.[edit | edit source]

What kind of exercises?[edit | edit source]

How much exercises is needed to manage stress?[edit | edit source]

Self directed Stress management and home based exercise[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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  1. Stults-Kolehmainen MA, Sinha R. The effects of stress on physical activity and exercise. Sports medicine. 2014 Jan 1;44(1):81-121.