BC 331 Posted October 28, 2013 I'm doing a little side project. Want to construct an info graphics spread on this topic. It's a widespread, unanimous understanding that fitness routines don't just benefit your physical well-being, but there is a such a thing as endorphins, and "runners-high" which boosts your mood, mental energy, and mental strength. Spending the better part of the night last night researching, there were 50 million pages supporting this thesis through simply stating it textually, but for informational purposes, finding the actual stats to back it up is scarce. Here are the tidbits I have pieced together so far by doing multiple google searches: - The hippocampus shrinks by 1-2% in individuals over 60 who are inactive. Conversely, it grows 1-2% with a fitness routine. - People are half as likely to be diagnosed with alzheimers with a fitness routine. - 60% of people halve their depression ratings with a fitness program, and 40% of these people stayed that way for at least three months. - 70% of fitness training people had significantly lower depression stats, opposed to only 48% who took medication - Students with 3.5 GPA's are three times as likely to participate in extracurricular physical activity than students with a 3.0 or under. - 38% of teenagers who do not participate in extra curricular physical activity smoke, opposed to 15% that do. - GPA is 3.07 for students in HS/college for those who participate in extra curricular physical activity, opposed to 2.7 for the converse. - 72% of people reported improvements in time management on exercise days compared to non-exercise days - 79%said mental and interpersonal performance was better on days they exercised. - Those who exercised reported 21% higher for concentration on work, 25% for working without unscheduled breaks and 22% higher for finishing work on time. - People were able memorize vocabulary terms 20% faster Makes me curious if any of you have any sources that would add to this. Also, there was seemingly a really awesome study that measured the moods and attitudes of people, but it was in a statistics format. Maybe someone here would be able to check the table on page 6 of this article and be able to help me get it into basic percentages like all the stats above? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=53&cad=rja&ved=0CEEQFjACODI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.colorado.edu%2Fintphys%2Fiphy3700%2Fmooddraft.doc&ei=7O5tUrfCK6qSigLZ1YCoBQ&usg=AFQjCNE_cs0UzEa_4xTKNH01qS9VLYxFRA&sig2=OcktnNKkXrXyqp09M_sfAA&bvm=bv.55123115,d.cGE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Phailadelphia Posted October 28, 2013 Are you a college student? If so, your library should have a bunch of research databases with free access to lots of peer-reviewed journals among other great sources. I'm sure you'd be able to find all the stats you need. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BC 331 Posted October 30, 2013 Well I graduated and stuff, but I always did those searched and felt like wow, these results are just not at all relevant to what I was looking for. But anyhow... I've been able to find some stuff like this. A study done in business statistics format (I got a C- in the class and remember very little of what I actually understood). I wish there was a way to turn this survey into actual percentage results and determine that based on this information, people, on average, feel 30% happier on fitness routines, or whatever it's determined to be. Not a big math guy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
