A new study shows that people benefit more from exercise when they believe it will have a positive effect.
Everyone knows exercise is supposed to be good for your health, but is the belief that exercise will have a positive effect more important for our well-being than the exercise itself? The psychologist Hendrik Mothes from the University of Freiburg’s Department of Sport Science and his team have conducted a study demonstrating that test subjects derive more psychological as well as neurophysiological benefits from exercise if they already have positive mindsets about sports. Moreover, the team provided evidence that test subjects can be positively or negatively influenced in this regard before engaging in the exercise. The study was published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Source & further reading:http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=166975&CultureCode=en
Paper:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10865-016-9781-3
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