An Exercise Prescription to Cure Depression

April 6, 2010

For the past 6 years, I have devoted a large part of my personal training business to clients suffering with mild to moderate depression.
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Referred by a growing network of mental health professionals, people who have been suffering with depression (and to a lesser extent – anxiety) have had tremendous success reducing their symptoms of depression using a very simple yet labor intensive exercise prescription.
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At first, it was very difficult to get mental health professionals to consider that exercise might help where drugs & talk therapy were failing.
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But slowly, as scientific research began to catch up with common sense, exercise therapy for depression became a slightly more acceptable treatment modality.
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Flash forward to 2010…and we see the director of the Anxiety Research and Treatment Program at Southern Methodist University telling his peers that “exercise has been shown to have tremendous benefits for mental health, and that the more […]

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