I quit the company four times due to depression .
The relationship between exercise and the brain has been investigated a lot, and it is known that exercise improves brain functions such as improving memory and thinking ability.
On the other hand, research has shown that if you lose exercise too much, your brain function will decline and you will become stupid.
Experiment on how much lack of exercise makes you stupid
It seems that such an experiment was conducted at the University of Maryland.
We investigated the relationship between lack of exercise and brain function in 9 men with an average of 61. Although the number of subjects is small at 9, these 9 subjects have selected 9 subjects with high physical ability, who have been exercising for more than 15 years and have significantly better cardiopulmonary function, vital capacity, and muscle strength than men of the same age. It seems that the person who gives the numerical value was selected as the subject.
Then, when I had them stop all exercise from the start of the experiment and followed up, it was found that the blood flow to the hippocampus, which controls the memory of the brain, dropped sharply just by not exercising for 10 days. My memory was weakened and my ability to learn new things was weakened, and the function of the entire brain was also weakened, that is, I became a little "stupid".
If you don't exercise for 10 days, you can see the deterioration of your memory, so you can see that people with chronic lack of exercise are bad.
Is exercise hard for depression?
What about mental illness such as depression? Depression is now a mental illness and a brain illness, so drugs that act on the brain are prescribed for treatment. In other words, we can see that brain function and depression are also closely related.
So, it doesn't mean that people who play sports do not get depressed because they have high brain function.
There are examples of sports and depression, and Dwayne Johnson (Rock), a former professional wrestler and actor who is a superstar of WWE, the world's largest American professional wrestling organization, has also experienced depression in the past. What?
It seems that it is unlikely that you will not get depressed if you build muscle because you will get depressed with such muscle muscles.
However, it has been scientifically proven that exercising improves brain functions such as improving memory and thinking ability, and as you can see from the previous experiment, it is a fact that brain function declines when exercise is insufficient. Therefore, exercising is better for improving brain function = can you expect some effect on depression? It is considered.
But it's not as much exercise as "train yourself like an athlete and drive yourself to the heights!" It's okay if you can take a light walk for 20 minutes a day.
When the symptoms of depression are severe, you won't feel like exercising, isn't it? It's good to take medicine, sleep well, and have fun. Isn't it okay to start something when it gets better and is about to recover?
From casual walking etc.
We recommend walking, jogging, and running alone, which will not bother anyone.
In team sports such as basketball and baseball, I personally care about human relationships, and one of the characteristics of depression is that I don't like promises. In team sports, it's mentally difficult because the "promise" of making a facility reservation and meeting up is inevitable.
If you have recovered enough to do that, you will be able to enjoy team sports, but first of all, let's start from walking, aiming to eliminate lack of exercise and recover physical strength. You can do it when you want to do it, and you don't have to do it when you don't want to. It is recommended because there is less pressure.