The best kept secret of “fit” people

Your mental health and your physical health are co-dependents. In all my years of experience Coaching (mostly women) the thing that holds most of you back from achieving your goals is an obsession with the scales that is damaging to your motivation, your moral and your mental health.

Improvements in mood, self-esteem and a sense of achievement are the most immediate benefits of starting to exercise regularly, and are way more noticeable, beneficial than any weight loss. Plus they happen almost immediately. The huge benefits to your mental health of exercise are pretty much the best kept secret of people who exercise. You don’t even need to be fit to do it, or feel the benefits. Yet all anyone talks about are the physical benefits!

The mental health benefits are the gap between people who exercise and those who dont. People who don’t, struggle to understand the how and the why. People who do, try to find tangible benefits to explain themselves, other things than it just feels good. Because someone who doesn’t exercise can’t comprehend HOW it can feel good, when it seems so hard to them.

I took to the airwaves with Paul Stacey from Erewash Sound the other day to discuss exactly this, and if you fancy a deper dive, check out Episode 14 of our weekly podcast!