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Let's talk about the absolute best exercise for depression.

Now think about this.

What does your body do when you are depressed?

It doesn't do anything, doesn't?

It just stops moving.

So there's a huge relationship between a person's motion and their mood state.

I mean, I challenge you. Try to be depressed if you are exercising or in motion. It's virtually impossible. So the more depressed you are, the faster you need to move. And I'm

talking about certain types of exercise. The absolute best exercise would be sprinting if you can do it,

if your joints can handle it. That will pull you right out of a depression. Running would be number two.

That's too much for you.

Then do jogging. Number four, aerobic type exercises like those classes that you can do.

But you can also put on a video exercise right in front of your TV. Your body is going to be very physical and a lot of motion going on, very therapeutic for depression.

Next one, high intensity interval training, very powerful, not just for mood, but for health, weight loss, growth hormone, anti-aging.

It's short bursts of high intensity with lots of rest. Next one to be biking and then walking.

But don't just walk around the block like walk for an hour or longer. All that oxygen, get your

attention in nature, very therapeutic. Now the next three things have nothing to do with exercise.

They are just some additional things that are very important. Getting your sleep in, like really making sure

that you're sleeping to generate exercise. I did a video before on the relationship between

someone's energy and their mood and a lot of people that are depressed are really physically

exhausted and that's going to make you feel depressed.

If you had a lot of energy, it's going to be really hard to be depressed. So work on your

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