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Weightlifting offers large antidepressant effects for young women with anxiety, regardless of intensity (www.psypost.org)
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[–] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Doesn’t it do that for everyone? I lift stupid weights for my stupid mental health too.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    In this case I would agree with you. But in terms of doing research on the human body it's important that we sort out all possible variables.

    I.e., I doubt this is at the exclusion of everyone else.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Ah yes... A sample size of 55 and good ol' anecdotal evidence.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    AGAD and QIDS have questions regarding sleep, concentration, weight and appetite change, and mood. There's probably a better way for me to put this, but I'm not sure calling answers about mood disorder symptoms in a study about mood disorder is anecdotal. This is a randomly controlled trial.

    Where it has problems if you read even the abstract is: both the control and experimental group saw a significant effect. The experiment results suggest that resistance exercise is not isolated enough to draw the conclusions that it's the cause that the news story that cities it does.

    Even experiments where the result isn't what's expected provide information and are just as important.

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