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Mental Health Benefits of Exercise

Teen Health 101

Exercise is known to affect your physical health substantially, but movement also has many benefits on your mental health and well-being. However, it is important that you exercise safely and intuitively to avoid further harm to your body or mind. Exercise can also help people manage depression. Jasper Smits, Ph.D.,

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How To Practice Visualization Meditation With Students

PLT4M

Visualization is so powerful because our body, brain, and nervous system don’t know the difference between real life and our imagination. Therefore, if we can practice visualization meditation, then we have primed our body, brain, and nervous system to be ready for the real thing when it happens.

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Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently

Skillastics

Exercise was proven to: Increase the number of neurotransmitters in the brain. Decades ago, science believed that neurons were only generated at birth, but we now know that physical activity can create new neurons through neurogenesis as we exercise. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently.

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The Best 3 Day Split Workout Routine for Beginners

The Sporting

Many people suffer from this issue simply because they have no clue what to do at the gym, and creating a solid exercise regimen to follow seems too challenging. To begin, what exactly do we mean by a 3-day exercise split? Back day is an important part of any workout split. So, What Is the Ideal Workout Split?