This paper presents a selective overview of recent research concerning physical activity, anxiety and anxiety disorders. The first section presents introductory information about anxiety and anxiety disorders. The second section reviews and attempts to integrate into the extant literature selected, recently published investigations concerning the influence of physical activity on anxiety and anxiety disorders. It is concluded that: most of the research concerning physical activity and clinical anxiety disorders has involved patients with panic disorders; not all panic disorder patients phobically avoid physical activity; acute and chronic exercise is safe for panic disorder patients; exercise training is associated with a reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with panic disorder; and post-exercise anxiety reductions are larger than usual if methods are used to minimize the problem of low pre-exercise anxiety scores when groups without clinical anxiety disorder perform an acute exercise bout. Some recommendations are given to further examine the effects of exercise training on anxiety disorders.
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