Combining Wellness With Fitness

FitFarms Weight Loss Retreat Enhancing Your Wellbeing Alongside Your Physical Health

There are many forms of exercise that don’t only enhance your physical health but also your mental wellbeing. Exercising releasing hormones that reduce your stress levels, boost your energy and improves mood. Along with improving your self confidence and day to day lifestyle.

But what exercises should you focus on to enhance your wellness and mental health the most?

Yoga

The most well-known exercise to promote your mental wellbeing is yoga. Yoga focuses on controlled breathing sometimes incorporating in mindfulness and meditation, it allows a full body relaxation exercise. Yoga also benefits flexibility, enhances your wellbeing state and deduces anxiety. Yoga further improves cognitive skills such as your memory and intelligence.

At FitFarms Weight Loss Retreat we believe taking a holistic approach to fitness and weight loss is the most beneficial to all part of your lifestyle. We run yoga classes on all the FitFarms Sites, promoting not only taking care of your physical health but also your mental wellbeing.

If you participate in regular yoga you’ll find a significant difference in your day-to-day productivity, patience and anxiety levels. While also providing a form of exercise, yoga brings many benefits when trying out some different lifestyle changes to boost your quality of life.

Most local community halls, leisure centres and gyms run weekly evening yoga classes. If you’re interested in trying out a new form of exercise, which can also promote your wellbeing, have a look at what is available to you within your local community. Alternatively, YouTube have thousands of yoga for beginners’ videos that are free and easy to do from the comfort of your home.

Cardiovascular Exercises

Cardiovascular exercise, also known as cardio or aerobic exercise, is any physical activity that raises your heartbeat. The most known forms of cardio include running, speed walking, swimming, cycling or any other forms of exercise that get you sweating and increase your breathing! Most cardio exercises are accessible to do outside and exercising in the fresh air brings many benefits to your wellbeing.

Running, cycling or going on a walk allows you to keep variety in your exercise regime, picking different trails or places to go. Exercising in different terrains such as a hilly environment also provides a more intense form of exercise, engaging more parts of the body compared to simply exercising at the gym. Exercising in Nature also provides a refreshing and relaxed environment, boosting your mental stimulation and increasing the benefits your exercise is giving you from just physical to also wellbeing advantages.