Lifting weights is good for mental health

Acccording to a new study and review about strength training and depression, lifting weights might lift moods. The study finds that resistance exercise often substantially reduces people’s gloom, no matter how melancholy they feel at first, or how often — or seldom — they actually get to the gym and lift.
It has already been proven that exercise, in general, can help to both stave off and treat depression. A large scale review, for instance, concluded that being physically fit substantially reduces the risk that someone will develop clinical depression. Other studies and reviews have also show that exercise also can reduce symptoms of depression in people who have been given diagnoses of the condition.
But most of these past studies and reviews have focused on aerobic exercise, such as walking or jogging.

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