Women who are suffering from generalized anxieties may find benefits in exercising. A six-week training program has been designed for women to reduce their levels of anxiety.

After participants to part in the program their findings suggest exercise training is feasible and safe. However, further investigation on a larger scale is needed.

The program randomly assigned 30 inactive women generalized anxiety disorders who were currently receiving drug therapy but no other treat to one of two exercise groups or a wait-list control group.

For the next six weeks one group was devoted to resistance training. The participants took part in lower-body weight lifting, doing seven sets of 10 repetitions of leg press, leg-curl and leg extensions. The other group cycled twice a week to exercise the same parts of the body.

Their studies showed that 60% of women doing resistance training, 40% from the cycling group and 30% in the control group had decreased their GAD.

After six weeks of exercising, women’s worry symptoms were significantly reduced, compared to the women in the control group.