{"id":691213,"date":"2026-03-29T23:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/691213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:53:15","slug":"intense-exercise-may-help-ward-off-panic-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/691213\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense Exercise May Help Ward Off Panic Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        If you&#8217;re prone to panic attacks, suddenly running as fast as you possibly can might not be the worst idea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/health\/training-performance\/panic-attacks-exercise-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Outside<\/a> reports that a new study suggests short bursts of intense exercise\u2014like 30-second sprints mixed into brisk walking\u2014can reduce both the frequency and severity of attacks. Published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/psychiatry\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyt.2025.1739639\/full\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontiers in Psychiatry<\/a>, the 12-week trial followed 72 sedentary adults with panic disorder. While both the exercise group and a group doing relaxation techniques improved, those doing high-intensity intervals saw greater gains and fewer attacks, even months later. Researchers say the approach, known as interoceptive exposure, works by triggering the same sensations people fear\u2014like a racing heart or shortness of breath\u2014so they become less alarming over time, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/liberate-yourself\/202603\/relaxation-or-exercise-for-panic-disorder-which-is-better\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology Today<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        &#8220;When you exercise hard, these are the same feelings as a panic attack,&#8221; study researcher Richard William Muotri tells Outside. That overlap helps explain why the approach may work. Panic attacks often feel like a medical emergency, with symptoms like a racing heart, dizziness, and difficulty breathing fueling fears of something more serious. That, in turn, can trigger a cycle of anxiety, where the body&#8217;s normal stress response is interpreted as something dangerous. Interoceptive exposure aims to break that loop by helping people experience those sensations in a safe, controlled way, gradually retraining how the brain responds to them.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Still, experts caution against taking the idea too literally. Sprinting in the middle of a panic attack isn&#8217;t the goal, says psychiatrist Daniel Knoepflmacher. Instead, the approach works best when built into a regular routine and paired with guidance from a therapist, often alongside cognitive behavioral therapy.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; If you&#8217;re prone to panic attacks, suddenly running as fast as you possibly can might not be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":691214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[38],"tags":[1736,289575,1728,1198,210,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-691213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-anxiety","tag-cognitive-behavioral-therapy","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116315161007763568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}