Introduction Understanding the importance of the link between nutrition and well-being can be difficult when several articles or online sources are telling you different things. We worked with health and fitness industry leaders at Future Fit to bring you some clear insights into ways nutrition can impact your overall well-being. Future Fit provide Nutrition Courses which are written and taught by experts in their field.
Your body will be experiencing plenty of changes as you reach perimenopause and menopause, so it is understandable that your body may be responding differently to your usual training. Adapted from Breakthrough Women’s Running we explore some ways you can offset the negative effects of menopause.
This post covers exercise prescription for those with depression, how much exercise is required and adherence. It contains excerpted content from Clinical Exercise Physiology, Fifth Edition. Many systematic reviews and meta-analyses have summarized the antidepressant effect of exercise. A meta-review conducted in 2019 concluded across eight individual meta-analyses that exercise reduced depressive symptoms in children, adults, and older adults (1). Exercise prescription An exercise prescription for people with depression will likely differ little from the prescription used for healthy individuals. Clinicians should be aware, however, that several symptoms of depression (e.g., loss of interest, fatigue, low self-confidence) may interfere with participation in exercise, and that comorbidities can further complicate matters. Training method Frequency Intensity Time (Duration) Type (Mode) Progression Cardiorespiratory 3-5 d/wk Initially moderate, then increased to 70%-80% of heart rate reserve; as tolerated, train at higher end of heart rate range 30-45 min (progress if necessary) Gross motor activities such as walking and biking Begin at lower intensity for markedly deconditioned patients. Gradually progress as tolerated. Resistance 2 or 3 d/wk 10RM-15RMRPE of 11-15 …
