Do Not Exercise When You Feel Angry, Study Suggests

Exercise is one of the best ways to keep yourself healthy and to keep you away from sickness. People usually hear advice to hit the gym or do a workout whenever you're not in a good mood. Well, study proves otherwise. Current research shows that mixing exercise with feeling mad, angry or being upset may lead you to a heart attack.

Experts found that anger and exertion as heart attack triggers. But the earlier studies were too small and not enough evidence were obtained because it includes limited people. The new study conducted by researchers include 12,461 people in 52 different countries that have experienced heart attack. The average age of the participants were 58 and three-fourths were men.

In the new study, participants were asked to answer if they feel angry or upset or experience heavy exertion an hour before their heart attack. This process can allow researchers to compare risk at different times in the same people and the effect of these possible heart attack triggers.

The answers of the participants were analysed and show that being angry and upset doubles the risk of heart attack symptoms within an hour. The same observation was found if a person is exerting heavy exercise. The researchers combined both analysis and it shows that having a bad day mix with heavy exercise can triple the risk of heart attack. The experts also discovered that the greatest risk is between 6:00pm and midnight, in a report by Washington Post.

A psychologist at the Crozer-Keystone Health System in suburban Philadelphia and an American Heart Association volunteer, Barry Jacobs, said: "This is a large enough sample size that we can put stock in the findings. We all need to find ways of modifying our emotional reactions and to avoid extreme anger." He suggested that to avoid extreme anger people could distract themselves, walk away from stressful situations, see problems from a different perspective, and getting support from other people could be helpful, according to Health.