Welcome to Feel Better, Live More, Bite Size, Your Weekly Dose of Optimism and

Positiveity to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 97

of the podcast with the physiotherapist and academic researcher Brendan Stubbs.

Now Brendan's work is helping to provide the much-needed evidence base for what

we all know instinctively that physical activity makes us feel good. In this

clip, he explains why movement is not just good for our body but also for our

minds and why you don't need to exercise for hours to feel the benefits.

Have we understood enough that exercise is just as powerful for our mental

health as it is for our physical health? I think now we're at the point where we

can say without reservation that moving around in your daily life is

beneficial for your mental wellbeing and your mental health just as much as

it is your physical health. You're right in that the focus generally and in

society and in medicine has been about how does it improve our physical

health and often an individual or societal level. It was if I moved around

the next size more, how does it make me look, how does it make me feel or fit into

my clothes but really we're trying to frame the the conversation to be quite

different around saying how does physical activity and exercise make you feel

does it make you feel good and that's very much the focus of the research what

we're doing and we can say really really strongly that when you look at big

populations of people moving around in your daily life and different types of

exercise can really help build up resilience reduce the risk of developing

adverse mental wellbeing and even mental health conditions also. We know that

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