At-home, app-based workouts were very effective at reducing peoples depression levels during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a new UBC research trial whose findings were released today in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
We found that regardless of the type of movement that people did in a week whether it was high-intensity interval training (HIIT) or yoga their mental health improved, said Dr. Eli Puterman, an associate professor at UBCs school of kinesiology and the Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Health….