Mental Benefits and Understanding Motivation

Your mood is improved when you have extra stress hormones in the blood.

False

Exercise can lower levels of estrogen in the blood.

True

If you're not naturally motivated, you can still increase your motivation by practicing certain strategies.

True

Mental focus can be improved by exercise.

True

Select all that apply.How does stress affect mental and emotional health?

makes you feel edgy and uncomfortable increases sugar in the blood puts you in a bad mood decreases mental alertness

The way you think about your successes and failures each day is called .

self-talk

A hormone that adds sugar to the blood.

Cortisol

How well a person is able to control their feelings during normal life events.

Emotional health

An important part of developing motivation includes understanding that motivation is influenced by your _____.

Mindset

A hormone that speeds up the heart.

Adrenaline

An important tool to help you exercise when you don't want to is to _____.

think about your ultimate goal