Mental Health Benefits to Mountain Biking
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Matt, Gerow, and Jeff talk about the link between mental wellness and mountain biking. Mountain bikers are using the sport to deal with depression, PTSD, learning disabilities, anxiety, seasonal affective disorder, and lack of confidence in inspiring ways, and we look at how this might work. We also discuss some specific programs that use mountain biking to address learning disabilities and improve mental wellness.
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| 0:30.1 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today, DeRoe and |
| 0:35.7 | Matt and I are going to be talking about the mental health benefits of mountain biking. |
| 0:41.3 | So one quick note before we get started, none of us are psychiatric or medical professionals. |
| 0:47.0 | Really, we're not any kind of professionals. |
| 0:49.2 | So we are mostly going to be sharing sort of our personal experiences and observations and talking |
| 0:56.3 | a little bit about some things we've read online and people we've talked to. But again, |
| 1:00.6 | we're not professionals. So if you've got questions about stuff or you want to know more, |
| 1:05.3 | find someone who is. So let's kick it off by asking sort of a overall question what is mental wellness what do you guys |
| 1:13.7 | sort of think about when you hear that phrase i guess when i think of mental wellness i think of |
| 1:19.9 | a manageable stress level a healthy mental function yeah i don't know being able to get through your |
| 1:26.3 | day without feeling like your |
| 1:28.1 | brain is clogged up. Yeah, agreed. And I would add maybe, you know, feeling like there's some |
| 1:34.4 | parts of life that go beyond the hierarchy of needs, you know, like get some time to do things |
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