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Fitness is becoming an emotional Band-Aid for more people, and the gym has naturally become their psychological healing room.

Lighting, music, and curriculum are all creating momentum for emotional waves. The unrestrained beating in the battle rope class and the fast punching in the boxing class can counterattack the boss’s scolding at work every second; the music coordination in the cycling class and the layer-by-layer pace of running pace can relieve the workplace at any time. Anxiety that you want to indulge to relieve after stress.

The Class, a New York studio, launched the slogan "Let fitness become an outlet for emotional release" at the beginning of its establishment; Peloton, a home fitness company, has successively launched a variety of emotional cycling courses, combining different emotions with "sweet", "spicy", " "Salty" and other forms combined with music presentation; hardcore training itself is not the essence of CrossFit maintaining the community, but the close connection between trainers.

Fitness has always played a role that cannot be ignored for bodybuilders—it can almost heal every period of emotional depression.

"Spirit and body in one" has become the next reason for urbanites to enter the gym after building their bodies.

This has been confirmed in the field of sports science. For example, the intensity of boxing classes can bring about sufficient stress release effects, and help the body simulate a fighting state, and cooperate with the whole body to resist the stress effect [1]. And it strengthens the body's ability to resist excessive, acute stress, while positively affecting the cardiovascular system, digestive system and immune system.

For them, fitness can be a source of regaining a sense of accomplishment after failing in workplace competition, an opportunity to reshape self-confidence after failing an exam, a tool to divert attention after conflicts between couples, a platform for mutual support and encouragement with friends, or simply used as a An option for venting.

The gym is becoming a more multi-dimensional living place. Some people exercise here, some socialize here, some escape from life here, and some lick their wounds here.

The real reason we go to the gym, much more than weight loss

The service tentacles of the gym have gone beyond body shaping, fat loss and muscle building. Providing emotional value is the key for more boutique studios to increase customer retention.

Because the working altitude of 996 submerges leisure time, the gym is becoming a utopia for more and more urbanites to escape for a short time.

The hearty boxing class in the boxing gym can quickly pour out the anxiety that is filled with daily life; the passionate emotional shout of the coach in the cycling class is a guiding method for stress release in psychology; The most convenient solution for social KPI.

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And their courses are particularly prominent in emotional catharsis, and even directly marked on the official website, more than 90% of members showed stronger resilience, less anxiety, and more vitality after different courses.

Compared with the enthusiasm and unrestrainedness of the West, in the Chinese oriental culture, the static movement of using softness to overcome rigidity first incorporated "emotional value" advertisements into the curriculum.

For example, yoga originated from the Hindu sect emphasizes the integration of meditation, spirit, and postures, while today's fitness yoga is more about completing postures such as twisting, stretching, and jumping, and it also comes from Buddhist meditation and other religious meditations. Nowadays, it is more like a kind of "selfless" relaxation through contemplating inhalation, stopping inhalation, and mind and energy.

More yoga, meditation, and Pilates studios in China have taken the lead in promoting projects such as stress management, emotional healing, and sleep improvement.

Gym,

It is also our psychological healing room

The emergence of market supply is due to high demand, because more people are beginning to realize that they have emotional problems.

According to Simple Psychology, the distribution of public health problems in 2021 is not pure anxiety and depression, but more from interpersonal, workplace, intimate relationships and other factors, which will continue to cause mood swings.

Simply put, everyone has their own emotional black holes, and only a very small number of people have diagnosed psychological problems.

Social fear, performance appraisal, conflicts between couples, and academic pressure will all bring about deep or shallow emotional problems. Exercise, in addition to psychological intervention, may be a painkiller without side effects.

From the college entrance examination to university, and even in the process of job hunting after graduation, Lailai, who once relied on pills to relieve her obsessive-compulsive anxiety, found her safe haven in the boxing gym. "Doing sports was discovered by accident. Doing exercise classes and boxing can quickly let me vent and temporarily liberate my brain. Before I go to class, I feel that the world is going to end. After class, I feel that this can be called a problem?"

■ What you fight is not a fist, but a life surrounded by irritability and anxiety

The stress release effect of punching is actually the body imitating the stress effect, and through the body simulating the response when fleeing and fighting, it helps the whole body system to work together [1]. And helps the body defend against the harmful effects of stress while having a positive impact on the cardiovascular system, digestive system and immune system.

Kaka, who was under pressure in the workplace, also suffered from long-term depression because of being squeezed out in the workplace. "There was a time when I came home from get off work and cried, but my friends couldn't stand it and dragged me to rock climbing."

"Rock climbing is a highly collaborative job that requires a high degree of trust between you and your partners. Due to safety issues, you must be highly concentrated. From the figure-of-eight knot to the safety lock, and even the entire climbing process of your partner, I must concentrate I focus on him with all my energy. And rock climbing is a sport that has been repeatedly failed. During my rock climbing process, I have no energy to care about other issues, and I must concentrate on challenging the climbing points one after another.”

■ Climbing with a partner while satisfying the need for social and emotional release

For Kaka, distraction and emotional release are one of the effects of exercise. "It's more important to always be with your friends."

The social attributes brought about by exercise are actually an important outlet for emotional relief, and have been repeatedly supported by many literature studies.

In a 2015 cross-sectional study [2], after collecting data on more than 1.2 million adults in the United States, it was found that those who exercised regularly had a 43.2% reduction in mental health problems. According to the study, all sports are associated with improved mental health, with team sports having the greatest positive impact on mental health. Connecting with others and exercising is a powerful drug.

The role of exercise is more than that. After talking with several fitness enthusiasts in GymSquare, it was found that everyone had emotional problems at one time, and the gym played various roles at this time.

Some people use CrossFit to gain the thrill of physical combat competition that they missed when they were teenagers; some people lift more weight again and again, breaking through the physical limit to gain the sense of accomplishment that they have lost in other aspects of life; some people use the gym as a third social interaction between the office and home field.

The emotional value brought by more sports is also worth exploring. The natural green space brought by outdoor sports can effectively calm emotions; Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu uses skill and mind as the board, and the body as chess, bringing joy to physical and mental liberation; progressive muscle Relaxation relieves anxiety by touching the nerves of the muscles.

The gym is also becoming a psychological healing room.

emotional management,

It is also the health management that everyone urgently needs

And the effect of exercise is not just a short-lived placebo effect. "Persisting in sports for a long time will make me more confident in myself, or in other words, I believe that I can solve the problems I encounter now."

Lai Lai, who has come out of obsessive-compulsive disorder, shared, "It can be said that exercise and psychological intervention together cured me."

But for modern people, increasing the importance of emotional problems will be a more important step.

Emotional disorders do not start directly from a psychological diagnosis. From worry, irritability to irritability and insomnia, fleeting but unexplained anger and hostility, fear, ominous emotional struggle, and even panic, may be the beginning of emotional instability .

You can quickly and easily locate your current emotions through Russell's emotional ring mode, and find out what emotional state you are in at this time through the coordinate axis.

When fitness is truly linked to health, the importance of emotions to physical health will be more emphasized. The gym in the future will be a safe house for every bodybuilder to adjust their emotions and heal their bodies and minds. ■