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Episode Description
This is the first episode in Let’s Get Movin’, a new segment of the Thriving with the Health Peers podcast series about physical health and active living. In this episode, Aleisha, Kaylla, Sonia, Mariel, Anna, and Jaskaren are chatting about how COVID-19 impacted their physical health, how exercise affects sleep, stress, energy levels/mood, and mental health, and how you can incorporate exercise into exam season prep.
YouTube Timestamps:
1:16 Introduction
2:55 Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines
5:30 How COVID-19 Impacted our Physical Health
6:56 Exercise and Sleep
8:35 Exercise and Stress
9:44 Exercise and Energy Levels
12:44 How Exercise can Benefit Mental Health
16:56 How to Incorporate Fitness into Exam Season Prep
Conclusion Music: Sun and Prosper by Ketsa. The section used is an excerpt of the original. Found on https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ke.... Sun and Prosper by Ketsa is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Disclaimer: SFU Health & Counselling does not own this music track.
Originally published on the SFU Health and Counseling Youtube Channel on April 9th, 2021.
Beyond the Podcast
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Check out the full Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology movement guidelines: https://csepguidelines.ca
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Check out the Health Peers webpage for upcoming events and activities.
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