A big part of recovery treatment is physical fitness and staying healthy. Along with the healthy meals planned for you during treatment there is scheduled time for physical activity. Every day includes a structured time for fitness and exercise, with a therapist involved to help you design an appropriate program for your needs. Exercise is part of a balanced, healthy lifestyle. It helps to remove toxins in your body, provides a break from studies and promotes physical relaxation and a good night’s sleep. Exercise also helps the production of endorphins in the body to make patients feel better and it can be used as a sober activity outside of rehabilitation to stay healthy and relieve stress. Not everyone enjoys running on a treadmill or lifting weights in a gym all the time. Which is why patients are also introduced to other recreational therapies that promote this physical therapy and healthy lifestyle.
With all physical activities toxins are removed from the body, muscles are developed, and endorphins are also released. Endorphins interact with receptors in your brain that reduce the perception of pain and make your body feel better. This is one of the natural highs people feel and a healthy one at that. Exercising can also help rebuild some structures or your brain after abusing substances that ruined it. Allowing you to feel more pleasure for everyday things without the use of drugs.
Implementing this as a part of your daily or almost daily routine can help immensely. Exercising will also bring more oxygen into your muscles, lungs, heart, and brain. All of this will help your body recover during treatment and after. Even for people who don’t suffer with addiction, exercise is used as a stress release. Those recovering from addiction will feel stress and this along with other techniques learned in treatment will help them overcome it.
Utah: Perfect for Fitness & Addiction Treatment
Sometimes people just need an escape from the mundane or from the hecticness of life. Sometimes they may want to find a new hobby or try something they’ve never done before. With the vast landscape and ever changing weather of Utah. Not many places offer all four seasons, high snow capped mountains, a desert, and large bodies of water all in one place. Utah does offer all of these things that allow patients and recovering patients a chance to get outside and enjoy the great outdoors. Sometimes just being in nature can make people feel humbled, grateful, and at ease. A hike through the trees on a warm summer day up to Doughnut Falls, kayaking in Lake Powell, fishing on Utah Lake, or four-wheeling at Bonneville Salt Flats, there is something to do for everyone. For winter activities look here. Using physical fitness as a new way of healing yourself, treating yourself better, and coping with everyday stressors offers a new way of looking at yourself and your life. Instead of putting yourself in danger or harming yourself you can take control of your life, of your pain, your anger, your stress, your boredom and use it for something to better yourself. Using physical fitness throughout treatment and after will help patients recover and find their true selves and even others who enjoy doing the same things. There are many fitness groups online and in every gym, even those who take it to the next level with bodybuilding. There are also groups for every other recreational activity but there are also those people who prefer to enjoy these things by themselves to find their peace of mind. Find what you enjoy, try something new, have an adventure you’ll never forget. Make new memories with people who support your sobriety and cherish them. Physical fitness isn’t just working out, lifting weights, or something you have to do. It can be enjoyed outdoors as well as indoors and with a multitude of people. It can be something not only healing and helping but also fun and wonderful. Being sober isn’t boring and never has to be it is a new better life and way of looking at things. A new way for experiencing things and improving your quality of life.
Are you looking for a health-centered addiction treatment program?
Recovery Ways offers plenty of time for physical fitness, and even offers a sober recreation program. If you or a loved one are in need of addiction treatment please contact our admissions team immediately. Call 1-888-986-7848 or contact us here.
