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Brief outside moderate to vigorous activity is best for positive mental health — take the children
In the midst of widespread working-from-home, COVID-related stress is on the rise. This is partly because of a general decrease in physical activity.
For example, I’m currently in Stage 4 lock-down and we are only allowed out once per day for exercise, we need a permit to leave home for work, and cannot travel more than 5km from our home address.
We doing less exercise generally but we are also not getting any exercise associated with commuting, such as walking from the train station to the office.
This is bad news since there is a well-established association between lower levels of total physical activity and lower levels of positive mental health.
5000 people reported activity and mental health
A recent study (2020) which was said to be a first, broke down the types of physical activity and their relationship to Positive Mental Health (PMH).
This is helpful, because it found specific types of inactivity, and specific types of activity had different effects on PMH.
