{"id":609,"date":"2011-03-27T13:20:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2023-06-04T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T02:49:00","slug":"better-out-than-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/better-out-than-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Out Than In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_605\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-605\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-605 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Exercising Outdoors\" src=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/running.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/running.jpg 500w, https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/running-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise outdoors.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A recent review carried out by a team at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK has concluded that there are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that \u201cMost trials showed an improvement in mental well-being: compared with exercising indoors, exercising in natural environments was associated with greater feelings of revitalization, increased energy and positive engagement, together with decreases in tension, confusion, anger and depression.<\/p>\n<p>Participants also reported greater enjoyment and satisfaction with outdoor activity and stated that they were more likely to repeat the activity at a later date.\u201d The one area that the study did not measure was the long-term effects of exercise in natural environments and whether or not participants were able to stick to a routine.<\/p>\n<p>Most of <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Health<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Jigsaw<\/span><\/strong>\u2019s training sessions are conducted outdoors, which can make you feel invigorated, refreshed and alive. They also provide most people with a change of environment in their day, from an air-conditioned office to the fresh air of the local parks, ovals, beaches or even their own backyard. Being outdoors can also help increase your body\u2019s stores of vitamin D.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/home\/\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/who-we-are\/\">Who We Are<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/what-we-do\/\">What We Do<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/testimonials\/\">Testimonials<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent review carried out by a team at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK has concluded that there are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise outdoors.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20,26],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}