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Winning Essays of the SPORTA Essay Competition - 2021
Active Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

Ms. R.Y.W. Bhawangi Jayadeepa, AH/BN/2018/492, Department of Nursing
The morbidity and mortality from COVID -
19 infections have proven to be higher in
patients with preexisting non-communicable
diseases. With lockdown, we all moved into a
sedentary lifestyle. It is a risk factor for non-
communicable diseases. American Heart
Association advised 150 minutes of moderate
physical activity weekly to keep our health
outstanding. It is how an active lifestyle can
help you create a life away from serious
health problems.

Another problem with the lockdown COVID
COVID - 19 pandemic was something that
caught us off guard. We had to remodel -19 is the lack of motivation and productivity
ourselves to survive. Many new things came to in the workflow. We know how we became
practice. According to the ministry of health, procrastination gurus in a limited time.
Sri Lanka official website total confirmed Studies have shown that exercises can give
cases in Sri Lanka on 26th October 2021 is you more energy and stop the afternoon
536 645 and 13 640 were dead. They are huge fatigue or slump. It keeps up the momentum.
numbers for a small country. Everything was a It improves mental capacity. Not only that, a
nightmare. little bit of activeness daily helps you to keep
away the brain fog and improves sleep
The virus was not the only problem. With quality. The importance of good quality sleep
lockdown, people started to get depressed due in the boosted workflow is a fact. According
to a lack of social interactions and lockdown to bbfp.com.au exercising, ensures proper
with toxic people. Due to the working from the function in the hippocampus region of the
home trend, we became lazier and brain. It displayed to change the size of the
demotivated. The sedentary lifestyle gave birth area of the brain involved in learning and
to new problems like increasing non- memory by aerobic exercises. We can
communicable diseases and increasing ascertain how much a bit of an active lifestyle
morbidity and mortality from the virus boosts up our productivity.
infection. It hurt badly for the best of us. Let's
see how adopting an active lifestyle will be a Exercising is very good. It helps to overcome
solution to most of these problems?
many problems that we encountered in the
COVID - 19 pandemic. We know all these.
According to mayoclinic.org exercise, can
release feeling good neurotransmitter But with lockdown and social distancing, all
Endorphin from our brain, as the words the gyms and places we can be active like
themselves say making us feel good. In parks were closed. We were confined, in four
addition to that, it helps to reduce the levels of walls of our house. It is a problem to
stress hormone Cortisol. It makes us feel less incorporate this into our routine. No need to
stressed. Now we can see how exercising can be discouraged. euro.net has comprised these
help us to have good mental health. simple steps to help us in this venture.

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