Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, how an earth are you doing? So today's Short Sharp Show, I have a question

from a user and I'm going to use this short show to answer it. So here is the question and by the way just ahead of you

listening to this we are talking about training in the gym training for fitness.

So the question is hello my name is Anna I'm'm a 24-year-old female.

My question is about exercise, anxiety and depression.

What kind of exercise do you recommend?

At the moment, I train full body four days a week and hit 10,000 steps per day.

My sleep is bad and I'm stressed with uni.

I'm struggling to have the energy and focus to do anything.

My mind often floats and I cannot concentrate. The only thing that

seems to improve my mood is going back to group-based exercise like body pump and functional circuits. I can cope with

group-based classes because the weights are much lighter. Typically I would

normally lift very heavy in the 6 to 10 rep range. Any suggestions on exercise or relaxation to improve

my mood, well-being and restore energy. All I want is to feel energised again in a normal everyday activities. So this question is interesting because what we've got here

is an expectation of what we should do and then the reality of what we should do and quite often if we're

honest the answer is staring us in the face but we're caught in a pattern loop or we're caught

in the sort of expectation of what we feel that we can do.

So my guess is that Anna has been training, you know, doing these four days a week,

lifting weights fairly heavy because she's got a certain potentially body composition or

performance-based goals and that's absolutely fine when the foot fits the shoe.

So if that is a priority and someone's got the time and the head space

then awesome. Now the thing with that type of training is it takes a certain amount

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