Use Exercise To Train Your Brain

When your teen uses regular exercise to manage stress, something interesting happens. At first, they’ll feel immediate stress relief as they run, bike, or swim. Tension can’t hang on when they’re moving their body. But the second thing that happens is that their body begins to anticipate the stress relief and doesn’t get stressed in the first place. Instead, it receives the mental signal that stress will be relieved during the next exercise session and doesn’t give the body the instruction to store it up. Think of exercise as training the brain in pre-stress relief.

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