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Exercise helps with ADHD symptoms.

Exercising with ADHD may be challenging.

Not everyone is ready to start a gym journey right now.

Numerous studies have demonstrated that regular physical activity and exercise can help alleviate attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, make them more manageable, and enhance overall quality of life. The issue is that many people with ADHD find that the act of exercising is a challenging endeavor. Between the distraction, difficulty getting started on tasks, and sensory issues that may arise through gym music and sweat, moving one's body can be riddled with obstacles. So here are a few things that can make exercising easier to achieve, but most importantly, easier to maintain.

1. The Process Is the Goal

Individuals with ADHD tend to have a decreased activation of dopamine networks when it comes to delayed reward. That means that we can't go ahead and go to the gym with the idea in mind that we will achieve the perfect body. On one hand, motivation based on results eventually fades, even in non-ADHD brains, but we have an additional challenge that when we don't see results within the first couple of weeks, we get unmotivated. What helps is to change the goalpost. The goal is the process. That means that success is achieved when you get to the gym, or to........

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