Emotional state is the most important index to measure the influence of physical exercise on mental health. Living in a complex society, people often have emotional reactions such as sadness, tension and depression, and physical exercise can shift individual unpleasant consciousness, emotions and behaviors, so that people can get rid of troubles and pains. Due to various exams, mutual competition and worries about future job assignment, college students often have persistent anxiety. Regular physical exercise can reduce their anxiety.
Improve intellectual function
Regular physical exercise can improve a person's intellectual function, not only improve the exerciser's attention, memory, reaction ability, thinking ability and imagination, but also make him emotionally stable, cheerful and tired. These non-intellectual components can promote a person's intellectual function.
(C) to establish a good self-concept
Self-concept is an individual's overall subjective evaluation of his body, thoughts and emotions, which consists of many self-understandings, including "who I am", "what I stand for", "what I like" and "what I don't like". Because insisting on physical exercise can make people strong and energetic, physical exercise is very important to improve people's physical appearance and self-esteem.
Body image refers to the body image formed in the mind. Appearance disorders are common in normal people. It is reported that 54% of college students are not satisfied with their weight. Compared with men, women tend to overestimate their height and underestimate their weight, and obese individuals are more prone to physical appearance and physical self-esteem disorders. Physical self-esteem mainly includes a person's evaluation of his exercise ability, physical appearance (attraction), physical resistance and health status.