“Keep an exercise plan. Add exercise on your to-do list or calendar and check it off when you complete it. Planning activates the prefrontal cortex, and checking it off the list releases dopamine. Win-win.” 
― Alex Korb, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

Resources For Exploring How Exercise Can Help Overcome Addiction


Very Well Mind
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-exercise-can-help-you-beat-an-addiction-4115857​
Article about how exercise can help you fight addiction.

Drug Rehab.com
https://www.drugrehab.com/recovery/exercise/
How exercising while in rehab can help you overcome cravings. 

Absolute Advocacy 
https://www.absoluteadvocacy.org/these-underrated-workouts-can-help-you-overcome-addiction/
Here are some types of exercise you may not have considered to help you beat addiction. 

My1fitLife
https://my1fitlife.com
It's a journey, this life. It's never about the destination but rather what you learn and how you grow along the way. Somehow, we think that our fitness is a place we arrive, but what if we shifted the way we look at it? What if we saw it as the adventure of a lifetime and the ability to improve day after day as we walk along a beautiful and changing path? You will never get to a destination in wellness, but rather, you will ebb and flow with the changing tides, and your journey will inform what comes next. Let's travel together.

Nike Training Club (App)
https://www.nike.com/ntc-app
The Nike Training Club app will make your fitness habits stick with quicker options, goal-setting tools, and new content daily. Strengthen your mindset and your muscles with free guidance from your favorite trainers, athletes, and wellness experts.

Do Yoga With Me (App)
https://www.doyogawithme.com/
As of 2022, over 50% of their content remains free, and it supports hundreds of thousands of people who otherwise would not have access to high quality yoga. DoYogaWithMe has established itself as a force for accessible, authentic, diverse, community-driven online yoga, featuring a core team and teachers who are approachable, highly skilled and who care deeply about their role and impact on the world.

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“Walking is man's best medicine. ” 
― Hippocrates

Videos About How Exercise Can Change Your Thoughts & Actions

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Learn how exercise can play a powerful roll in addiction treatment and why it's important to implement this tool to help balance your brain chemistry and optimize your recovery.
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 Learn about connecting the mind, body and spirit and using physical fitness as a positive coping skill to maintain a clean and sober lifestyle.
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We all know that exercise is good for you, but what you probably don’t know is that there is a lot of emerging research that shows how exercise changes your neurochemistry. The really exciting thing is you can actually use exercise to literally change your brain chemistry to reduce drug cravings in real time.
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Why exercise is so important when you are quitting drinking or trying to stay sober in the long term. Movement is medicine and introducing a daily exercise workout can have shockingly good benefits to anyone who is a problem drinker looking to stop using alcohol and regain health and wellness.
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The video looks at how exercise affects mental health, specifically for the adult and elderly populations. An exercise physiologist, who is a part of the Stay Well program at St. Josephs's Hospital, was interviewed to share his expertise on the benefits of exercise. 
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What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory -- and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases.