Aušrinė Tunkevičiūtė
Part 1
INTRODUCTION
Part 1
INTRODUCTION
The main
subject which I am investigating is exercising. This term has a lot of meanings
and all of them is necessary. It includes any movement from stretching to
professional sport. Generally, it can be said that exercising could be any form
of movement, but what I will mainly focus on is strolling, jogging, dancing and
home exercising. In all the articles I will look for any evidence that
exercising has a great impact on human psychology. It may be said that sport
has two sides, but I am convinced that exercise perfomed correctly and steadily bears only benefits which I hope will be approved in my pilot study. The thesis I am doing is as following “Exercising makes a person happier”.
KEY TERMS
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Exercising – physical
activity that people involve in everyday life in a game, duty, hobby or purpose
form. People exercise when they play sport games like volleyball, do
special exercises at home, attends professional sport league like athletics,
dance, practice yoga, or even go outside with dog.
·
Mental health – the level of
psychological well-being, or an absence of mental illness. Mental health
involves cognitive thinking and keeps your attention to stay focused. It
requires managing emotional actions and set the appropriate reactions to
situations. Disorders: autism, anorexia, various phobias.
·
Emotional health - is about being
happy, self-confident, self-aware, and resilient. Emotional healthy involves
expressing one’s emotions appropriately for one’s age. Disorders: depression,
anxiety.
·
Yoga - a system of exercises for
attaining bodily or mental control and well-being
·
Cognitive – human awareness
through though, experience, senses understanding when person keeps memory, can
solve conundrums, analyse, argue, perceive the environment.
·
Aerobic doctrine – the revolution of
aerobics which lasted since ‘60s and lived about 20 years. Its motto was ‘no
pain-no gain’, dominated perception that intensity of sport must be increased
to maximum on purpose to reach best achievements however it was hard and
harmful.
SUMMARY
1. People who grow up dancing are happier, less stressed and smarter
(Alexa
Mellardo 25 Jun, 2015, 1 Word extent page)
Keywords: dance,
movement, workout, anxious, happiness, stress, body language
In her article ‘People who grow up dancing are
happier, less stressed and smarter’, Alexa Mellardo (2015) claims that dance is
an outlet to alleviate daily stresses and bring so much happiness to those who
embrace it. She said it is significant to emphasize that the dance involves all
human being physically and psychologically. The real world fades away when the
dance begins and the artist concentrate onto movement so much that he can talk
without words by body language and express his inner world. Dancers ‘breathing
coincides with each graceful movement’ and ‘you can lose yourself in the
movements’. As a result, dancer experiences extraordinary impact such as a great amount of joy, energy breakthrough and escaping from all the hindrances and bad feelings. Mellardo
goes on to say that dance is a type of sport and art together. A professional dancer Shanna LaFleur claims that ‘it takes an athlete to dance, but an artist
to be a dancer.’ The result is reached by the long hours of workout and great
passion. In the next part the author presented research carried by Swedish that
shows great dancing affects female teens who are struggling with neck and
back pain, depression, anxious and stress. The positive change felt the girls
that took part in the weekly dancing classes. Another Mellardo remark that
psychology today ‘says dancing makes you happier than simply hitting up the gym
or going for a run’. Based on this preposition University of London conducted
the study with patients dealing with anxiety disorders. They were divided into
four different therapies: an exercise class, a modern-dance class, a math class
and a music class. Only the modern-dance class significantly reduced anxiety.
The author mentions one more aspect of dance influence on person. She noticed
that dancing stimulates different brain activities at the same time, including
emotional, rational, kinaesthetic and musical. This type of movement stimulates
the mind and sharpens cognitive skills at every age and increase brain function
in positive way. As a conclusion,the writer suggests us incorporate dancing
in our lives (without worrying that we must become prima ballerina) because
‘happy feet are truly good for the mind, body and soul’.
2. How physical exercise makes your brain work better
(Ben
Martynoga, 18 June, 2016, 2 Word extent pages)
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jun/18/how-physical-exercise-makes-your-brain-work-better
Keywords: mental fitness, muscle, yoga, hippocampus (part of brain),
brain (grey matter)
Ben
Martynoga, the author of an article ‘How physical exercise makes your brain
work better’ states that exercising has a great connection with our brains. At
the beginning he argues that brain is like a muscle which we need to train,
however,he disagrees with school-type brain training. Later on, the
neuroscientist explains why he is convinced that jogging, playing and learning
on the move is more beneficial than literacy or numeracy exercises. He
illustrates
it by an example that build up your biceps you can't avoid flexing
them, however when it comes to your mental fitness, an oblique method can be
remarkably effective: ‘working your body’s muscles can actually benefit your
grey matter’. Martynoga said that the runner high and the yogi’s tranquillity
have a very profound impact on brains. He based his approach on conducted
research with children, adults and elderly. The study shows that specific
physical activities alter brains structure. The part of grey matter named
hippocampus is core of memory and learning systems and it strongly responds to
aerobic exercises. The author highlights the practical benefits of sport.
Exercise can help focus and stay on task or stick the memories. German
researchers have examined that walking or cycling during learning helped
foreigner to capture new vocabulary into long-term memory. In the main part the
author mentions that exercising improves our emotional well-being. Yoga and
meditation practicing reduces anxiety and absorb stress. The author adds that there
is a scientific explanation that a person concentrates onto his body and mind
that can maneuver movements and breathing. Exercise is a promising way to
overcome depression. Martynoga believes that exercising could be inserted into
depression treatment as well as antidepressant drugs. Next to benefits like
more productive work, less stress or depression joins creativity and slowing
cognitive decline. Physically active person remains conscious longer because of
strong connection between aerobic fitness and cognitive preservation. It is
possible that exercise stimulates neurons renewal. Afterwards the reader is
informed about the theory raised by Nietzsche, Thoreau and many other creative
person who have claimed that walking gives wings to the imagination. Strolling
can help not only concentrate but also to reflect the milestones of life or
even unlock great your imagination. In the end the author emphasises that
‘sitting (still) all day, every day, is dangerous’ and reminds us that what we
are doing with our body responds to our mental faculties.
3. Walking: Your steps to health
(Harvard
Men’s Health Watch, published in August, 2009, 6 Word extent pages)
Keywords: jogging,
strolling, transportation, recreation, health, exercise habits, conditioning/occasional
exerciser, sedentary
The author
of an article ‘Walking: Your steps to health’ states that walking considerably
improves our healthy. In the beginning the writer reviews walking from the very
first human steps – as toddler becomes a walker opening the door to independence
and exploration. It is like automatic, intrinsic human function, however
nowadays the direct necessity to go on foot have decreased because stairs were
changed by elevators, the journey to the work is facilitate by autos and even
the Segway catches on like walking machine. Later on the
article’s author criticises aerobic doctrine which leads to great results and
also to bad consequences. Motto ‘no pain, no gain’ should be changed into
individual, healthier exercising program. The author explains why
walking is more suitable to practice than jogging. Physical activity depends on
three elements: intensity, duration and frequency. He said that running seems
to be more time-efficient, however it has drawbacks like higher risk of
injuries because ‘in just one mile, a typical runner’s legs absorb more than
100 tons of impact force’.
In
another part he argues that regular exercise is very good for health and
repeats Hippocrates: ‘Walking is a man’s best medicine.’ Two scientists from
University College London performed analysis of research that have studied 500 000
participants with different exercising habits. We are told about statistic what
70 000 female nurses who was walking at least three hours a day have 35%
lower risk of heart attack, cardiac death and risk of stroke. Among 40 000
male health professionals walking at least 30 minutes a day was linked to an
18% lower risk of coronary artery risk. Third group consist from 10 000
graduates of Harvard College who was walking at least nine miles a week and it
was established that they have 22% lower death rate. So the author concludes
that those who walked at faster pace or walked longer distances enjoyed bigger
health protection.
4. Avoid Sitting to Death
(Michael Otto Ph.D., July, 2011;
Daiva Povilaitytė, 2016, 2 Word extent page)
and
Keywords: daily
sedentary, exercise, mood
In article
‘Avoid sitting to death’ the author Michael Otto states that sedentary life
style can bring death into young people life. In the second article Daiva
Povilaitytė adds that human needs exercising every day. She illustrates that
sedentary human organism is like a stinky swamp, because the water in lake should
always circulate like energy in human. She argues that physically inactive people have
a lot of problems with heart, emotional health because the body is stagnated
and strained. Those who move minimally tend to be in anxious mood, stress and
depression. She echoes Juvenalis: ‘In healthy body is healthy soul’. The
studies show that happiness and
vitality returns with any exercising form: dancing, walking or even stretching.
Otto offers to be creative and ‘find a way to get
up and move several times every hour’. He talks more about work in office
culture in America which attaches people to computer and chair. The breaks and
short exercising is necessary to active thinking, memory and physical
wellbeing. However, some employers adapted modern tables in their offices
which are beneficial for the workers health. The tables start raising at a certain time and a person must
slowly stand up simultaneously. In conclusion, the authors raises a very relevant problem: sitting all day is very harmful.
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