Exercise is great for your mental health. It encourages the release of feel-good chemicals such as endorphins that naturally boost your mood. You don’t need to spend a long time doing it either, as a little goes a long way – an Australian research team found 12 per cent of depression cases could be prevented if participants did just one hour of exercise per week. Indeed, keeping fit is so successful as an anti-anxiety remedy that many GPs now prescribe exercise as a treatment for depression, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends those with mild-to-moderate depression do three 45-minute sweat sessions per week.
But the type of exercise you do does matter when it comes to minding your mental
