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Relationship Advice

351: How Exercise Will Improve Your Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's no secret that exercise will improve your health and wellness. However, we don't talk about its positive effects on mental health and relationships nearly enough on this show. Today we're going to dive in and focus on the benefits of exercise for your relationship so you can start using these tools for improving your life today! In this episode with Dr. Jennifer Heisz, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Understanding the connection between your health and your brain How exercise can combat mood disorders like depression and anxiety  How to start an exercise routine and keep it Why exercising with your partner will help improve your connection The value of processing negative emotions through exercise  Implementing play into your exercise routine The value of dropping an argument and going on a walk together And much more! Sponsors BetterHelp is an online therapy platform that will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist. Start living a happier life today and get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Füm is a tobacco-free non-electronic inhaler used to quit smoking and vaping naturally. Join 50,000+ worldwide and create healthier positive habits. Quit naturally with Füm and use IDO to save 10% at  https://www.breathefum.com/IDO Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What's going on guys? Thanks so much for tuning in to today's show where I talk to Dr.

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Jennifer Heise and she is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Brain and Health

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and Aging in Kinesiology at McMaster University and she is the author of Move the Body Heal the

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and today we talk about how exercise can help improve our relationships and I say it in the

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in the interview that I feel I don't really talk about this enough because it is such an important

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part of having a healthy relationship is obviously getting right with our own mental health but

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also getting right with our own physical health because literally we're more irritable we're

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more anxious we're more tired if we're not exercising and if we're feeling all of those things

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we're gonna find it challenging to improve our relationships so Jennifer gives us some great

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tips and guides to implementing exercise in our lives so that we can use it to improve our

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relationships I really enjoyed this conversation with Jennifer as always thank you so much for

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tuning into the show for telling your friends and family we're coming up on summer almost and

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I always joke I think every year that we're going to have the summer promo of tell one friend

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and family member about the show if you like it and that's really what helps us spread the word

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to get this information out to more people and if you really enjoy the show leaving us a review

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on iTunes or Spotify is greatly appreciated thank you guys for listening enjoy today's show

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hey Jennifer thanks so much for joining me on the show today thanks so much for having me

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today we're going to talk about your new book move the body heal the mind and how using the

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information from the book in your research can improve our relationships and just a couple

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minutes ago we were talking about how obviously the healthier we are individually the better we're

2:53.5

going to show up in relationships so that's the the premise here and we don't talk a lot about

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