{"id":2169,"date":"2022-05-02T22:47:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2022-05-02T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:47:40","slug":"how-to-motivate-yourself-to-exercise-even-when-youre-feeling-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"How to Motivate Yourself to Exercise Even When You\u2019re Feeling Depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The past couple years have presented major challenges for both our physical and mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With so many of us siloed to our homes \u2014 particularly when gyms were intermittently closed for most of 2020 \u2014 we scoured the internet for the\u00a0best home fitness equipment, building up our home gyms\u00a0piece\u00a0by\u00a0piece\u00a0and adjusting to a very different workout experience. These limitations offered exciting, creative challenges for some fitness fanatics. But they also made it more difficult to exercise, leading to less hours in the gym and a decrease in general physical fitness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, the extra time at home forced many of us to look inward, with the distance from others offering a drastically stark change for our social habits, and plenty of mental hurdles to battle along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/spy.com\/articles\/health-wellness\/fitness\/how-to-get-motivated-to-exercise-when-depressed-1202850516\/\">spy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple years have presented major challenges for both our physical and mental health. With so many of us&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}