A week of physical inactivity has the same negative mental impact as a week of broken sleep, a study by sports equipment company Asics revealed.
These results come from the company’s Mind Race study, in which participants who exercise regularly paused their workouts for a week and reported a 23% increase in racing thoughts after 7 days of physical inactivity.
“We know that exercise is good for our mental health, but the impact of rest and restarting exercise is less clear,” Brendon Stubbs, MSc, PhD, a clinical academic physiotherapist at Kings College London, said in a company