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How Does Exercise Reduce Stress?

How, exactly, does exercise make you less stressed out? Especially when exercise raises levels of the stress hormone, cortisol?

We've all read that exercise lowers levels of anxiety, depression and stress. And that holds true even for people who are stressed out by the idea of exercise. But how exactly does it do that?
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Walking Works – So Why Are We So Sedentary?

Walking makes us healthy and happy, and there are plenty of ways to fit it into the day: walking to work, wandering book clubs or even training for a charity trek. Where do you walk?

"It felt like we were marching through a battlefield. People were gasping for breath and shouting for help. Lots didn't make it to the end, either collapsing from exhaustion or unable to take the pain any longer."

That is how one friend dramatically described the 24-hour, 100km charity walk from London to Brighton. What was I thinking when I signed up? But since making that rash decision last November, I've had little choice but to lace up my first ever pair of walking boots and take to the streets of London. It has been a refreshing – and blistering – experience.
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