[ugiox]

Not the heat, not the yoga, but “doing sports and moving” reduces depression.

So it could have been “bouldering may reduce depression” or even “squash may reduce depression”.

Why? 1) You move. 2) You can’t do social media at the same time.

tl;dr get out, move, stop sitting on the couch and stop social media.

[devjab]

Yeah, I was surprised to see this on hacker news. I mean it’s a great study and it’s good to know that heated yoga also works, but when I had my run in with depression (which turned out to be ADHD and stress) one of the key things in the recovery program was exercise. Specifically it was to talk walks in one of our forests. So while it’s definitely good to broaden the range or activities that are proven to reduce depression through science, it’s also a little… what is the word for something that is obvious because it’s been proven many times before?

I do find it interesting that they only focused on heather yoga and non-action. I get that it’s about resources, but given that we already know that “getting out there to exercise” works it seems a little strange to not compare with different sorts of activities. It would be much more interesting to me if regular? Yoga also worked as I’m not too interested in doing heathers yoga but have considered the regular stuff. I’ll probably end up climbing though since we have a climbing hall nearby and my daughter is a regular monkey so we can probably go together.

[mirekrusin]

We all know it's just:

1. eating well

2. exercising well

3. sleeping well

But it doesn't mean that one form or exercise can't be more effective than the other.

Intense sweating and higher cardio through heat, stretching, compression etc. on top of exercise may have better effect on ie. lymphatic system, circulation etc.