West Des Moines Exercises Benefit Makes it a Good Resolution for All

New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is exercise more. Exercise benefits young and old alike, increasing cognition, health, sleep quality, etc.. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa trusts that including West Des Moines exercise to your way of life is an advantageous behavior that enhances your life in due course. Let’s get moving!

EXERCISE MOTIVATORS

Culture can be supportive of physical activity…or not. Researchers evaluated a variety of motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is an act of self-determination, they detailed the combination of autonomy, competence, ego, task, and relatedness of these in the motivation to exercise. American subjects were more autonomous, task oriented, and physically active than Turkish subjects reminding researchers and ultimately us clinicians to customize exercise to the patient and his/her influences. (1) Share with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa what motivates you! Simple? Fast? At-home? Out of the house? Maybe some mindfulness? To enrich the exercise effort, including mindfulness appears hopeful. Researchers found though that many have misconceptions or no concept of what mindfulness is or how it is helpful to mental and overall health. A recent study analyzed the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in preventing mental health issues and decided that it was promising. (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa appreciates those types of benefits!

BENEFITS FOR COGNITION, PAIN RELIEF WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

A pill maybe?! None of us would confess to wanting a pill to be physically fit…or would we? Of course not! As the pharmacological world looks for drugs to improve cognitive function in the aging folks, researchers have also listed nutrition, diet, probiotics, cognitive training, and physical activity, exercise, even dancing – ballroom, aerobic and Latin - as being beneficial. (3) Major motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors mixed with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving chronic pain – linked to decreased brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was found to restore normal brain function. (4) That is what Executive Chiropractic of Iowa does: treat chronic pain with chiropractic care incorporating spinal manipulation.

OLDER FOLKS AND YOUNG KIDS

Curious researchers took on the question of older adults’ goals, motivations, and self-determination motivators to follow a healthy lifestyle and do things to support that lifestyle like exercising and eating well. Factors like personality and goal-setting habits were proposed as influencers. (5) Even in kids, researchers observed that behaviors like breakfast eating, exercise, and sleep patterns affected their healthy lifestyle. Not eating breakfast in the morning – 11% of kids in a recent study did this – was linked to sleep duration, bedtime, and physical activity. 9.5% of kids reported poor sleep. 24.9% slept less than the suggested 9 hours. Girls were not as physically active. Sad news: Such unhealthy habits impaired children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Good] news: Better sleep quality bettered their reaction time in a visual attention test. (6) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy lifestyle goals.

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Schedule your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment today. A new year. A new resolution. Including exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.

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