Association between physical exercise and mental health: a cross-sectional study

Re:Association between physical exercise and mental health: ... by Nasrudith on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:01AM (#17733862)

I think the next step is to try and examine causation vs correlation via known already bad patients. If say psychiatric inpatients within hospitals start adding in more exercise programs would they have improved patient results? The setting is also important for ethics - if it may worsen patient outcomes one should be ready to prevent further harm.

Or it could theoretically be like trying to treat muscular dystrophy via 100 lb bench presses - the system is too far gone for it to help.

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Re:Association between physical exercise and mental health: ... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:05AM (#17733910)

> 100 lb bench presses

C'mon, no shaming the 100 lbs bench press - I absolutely encourage someone whose benching 100 lbs to bench, because if they work hard pretty quickly it won't be 100 lbs any more.

And you raise an excellent point - is exercising the thing boosting the mood, or is the exercising the result of a mood boost.

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Re:Association between physical exercise and mental health: ... by pjc50 on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:03PM (#17734534)

Ironically I think the parent poster intended 100lb as "completely unachievable for someone with muscular dystrophy", while you've read it as "so light as to be completely ineffective"!

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Re:Association between physical exercise and mental health: ... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:17PM (#17735125)

Yes, I realize this now. Whoops.

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