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Exercise and Anxiety

Anxiety is a deep feeling of insecurity, fear and stress! To overcome anxiety, exercise remains the most natural remedy. Indeed, the production of endorphins (known as “happiness hormones) causes a sensation of well-being during and after a training session.

While the manifestations of emotion appear in the presence of a given real situation, “anxiety can be considered as a fear without object, a feeling of insecurity. It is triggered by different causes, future or imaginary situations, experienced as a danger, or at least something difficult to surmount, that may be related to intrapsychic conflicts or in relation with the outside world, anticipation of a risky action or considered as such.

On the psychic level, anxiety is always painfully felt, which again differentiates it from emotion.

According to the individuals, it can be a relatively ordinary state, like stage fright, or be part of pathologies going in its extreme form until the panic attack.

In athletes, we are in most cases dealing with a non-pathological form, but which can become disabling in the event of the persistence of a situation perceived as threatening. It is a negative emotional state that is accompanied by tension, anxiety, apprehension, associated with an activation of the body.

It thus has a cognitive component characterized by subjective sensations of apprehensions and tensions induced by a risk of failure and a somatic component corresponding to the physiological manifestations perceived during the anxiety-provoking situation.

While the manifestations of emotion appear in the presence of a given real situation, “anxiety can be considered as a fear without object, a feeling of insecurity. It is triggered by different causes, future or imaginary situations, experienced as a danger, or at least something difficult to surmount, that may be related to intrapsychic conflicts or in relation with the outside world, anticipation of a risky action or considered as such.

Anxiety can be a relatively ordinary state, like stage fright, or be part of pathologies going in its extreme form until the panic attack.