This is the time to let your sweet little mind have a break
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Would that it were me. When my exercise shifted from dippy aerobic classes to extensive house puttering, I thought to use this time to make a dent on absorbing current affairs. I’d listen to NPR and podcasts, with my peaceful floor routine on silent. I thought I’d clear my mind with the power of exercise to make space for the world to come in.
I learn that, probably, it’s a bad mix of both. “Exercise is really good for stress relief, because it tones the stressors,” says Jennifer Heisz, a cognitive psychologist and professor of kinesiology at McMaster University, referring to the way that exercise challenges the body in a controlled setting. Making your body exercise — breathing hard and getting your blood pumping — is like simulating a stressful environment, that you’d have to fight-or-flight your way out of.
Sean McCann, the senior sport psychologist for the United States Olympic Committee, tells me that for many of the Olympians he’s working with, he’s suggested limiting their news diet. “I think there’s a generational thing,” he says. “So many of the athletes I work with are podcast listeners as they exercise. The older folks, it was mostly music.” Now that news podcasts are “so depressing and terrifying,” McCann’s recommending other options.
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