Exercise Psychology

Overall exercise psychology is an application of psychology to promote, maintain, enhance, and explain parts of exercise. Although there are technically two separate forms of exercise, physical activity and exercise. Physical activity is all bodily movements that cause physical exertion beyond what happens in everyday activities, while exercise is a form of leisure physical activity. Another important part to understanding exercise psychology is knowing that psychology is the mental processes for daily life while exercise science is all sports of sports. The chapter also brings up case study A, B, and C, each one is about an individual and how each one has particular barriers that prevent one another from exercising on a regular basis. Some barriers are time while other barriers are about injury, or even worrying about …show more content…
These are all reasons why many do not workout but these should not stop people from living a healthy life. The chapter then goes on to talk about all the positive outcomes that can come from exercising such as reducing risk of diabetes and heart disease, but also even lowering mortality rates. The writer acknowledges that today research is showing that when people put a greater emphasis on exercise, down the line the health benefits are very positive. Today exercising is becoming more and more popular, and is almost becoming a necessary action for people to stay healthy down the line in life. Chapter two starts very differently, citing a problem which is the lack of physical inactivity. Part of the blame can be put towards the increase in technology with ultimately leads to the increase in a sedentary lifestyle. With people today staying in one spot, there is a decrease in the physical movement, which brings on how important physical activity is for us. The question though is how much do we really need? One