NEW YORK — Bad days are as much an American pastime as baseball and apple pie, a new study finds.
Researchers at Freeletics, a personal fitness and nutrition app, commissioned a poll of nearly 2,000 working Americans about how they dealt with stress, hoping to learn more about what constituted a “bad day.”
Respondents, on average, indicated that they had 60 bad days a year, with 80% of these 24-hour periods being made at least partially unpleasant by work-related stress.
However, sleep — or a lack thereof — was found to be the largest source of misery, accounting for 67 percent of an individual’s dissatisfaction on any given day.
Illness, financial worries, cancelled plans, and feeling unclean or disheveled also had the ability to ruin someone’s day, the researchers found. In fact, bad hair days were fairly prominent responses. One in four respondents indicated that frustration over uncooperative hair puts a damper on their day. Similarly, another quarter of respondents admitted that having no hot water for their morning shower left them in a day-long bad mood.
Meanwhile, a comparatively small percentage of respondents (8%) said that their day could feel wrecked by their favorite sports team losing a game.
Negative feelings, no matter how long they persist, can result in unhealthy behaviors, the researchers noted.
Half of respondents said that they were more likely to eat unhealthy foods after a tough day, and 34 percent said that they were more likely to drink alcohol.
According to the researchers, exercise may be the best way to deal with stress, as it provides both mental and physical benefits.
Workout frequency was positively correlated with one’s ability to cope with stress, the researchers added.
“These findings make a lot of sense, as working out after a tough day can be a very effective stress reliever, especially because it boosts those all-important endorphin levels,” explains John-Francis Kennedy, a personal trainer at Freeletics.
The numbers don’t lie: 95 percent of those surveyed said that a stressful day could be made less difficult by spending some time at the gym. Half of the respondents indicated that working out gives them more energy at the office, and 44% say exercise simply makes them feel more motivated.
Nevertheless, only a fifth of respondents said they had a gym membership, largely due to cost.
Life is complicated, and bad days are inevitable, but as this study shows, many Americans may be having the blues too often.
Fake News
This just ruined my day.
Who gets paid to come up with this drivel?
And who is stupid enough to pay for such nonsense?
queer a$$ oblammy president BAD DAY.
Great everyday= Trump is in office. I LOVE crumbs.
When life gives you crumbs, take them, as before, we got no crumbs at all….
You sir are correct.
Only 60? feel like im throwing off the curve i’m lucky to have 60 good days.
First world problems. There are no bad days or good days. It’s what you make of it.
And women have 365 ‘bad hair’ days.
When you find yourself having a really bad day just remember that somewhere there is a Mr. Nancy Pelosi and a Mr. Marxine Waters, so cheer up and count your blessings.
Imagine if mass immigration of non-Africans was demanded into All and Only African populations
Wouldn’t it be obvious that someone was trying to rid the world of Africans?
Stop #White Geno Cide
Stop #Anti White
As a Choctaw, silly talk like that only makes you look stupid…
Choctaw – not being from the SW, I had to google “Choctaw”… What is your C.I.B. ratio? Above 1:32? Personally, it could be 1:1,000 and I’d still support you as Choctaw.
5/16
Have you apologized to the Clovis people yet?
Racist runt..
Also, when things look bleak, it’s always gonna be worse for Peter Strzok and Ms. Page. I have a feeling that every day will be a bad day for them.
Suck it up buttercups. Nobody said life was easy. Deal with it and carry on. Too much pansy worrying and not dealing with life.
We had 8 bad years under President Barry Hussein…this study null and void…
Another snowflake survey. The only bad day is the day you die. Every other day is a gift. Ask a combat veteran about real stress. That will surely skew the results of this inane survey.
You just mentioned why I care little about the “issues” many people complain about today….they have no idea what real loss and sacrifice is – let alone bravery
Thank you for your service !!
60 bad days…sounds like some journalist looking for their 15 minutes
52 Mondays and 8 Tuesdays.
There are many that are having 365 bad days a year and, it’s priceless.
The other 305 days are usually blamed on other people. You need to find more people to blame for these problems, like idiots you do not like, but can be counted on to be pincushions for other people to blame.
Fricking groundhogs! Ruined the whole month!
Or 365 if you’re a Democrat under a Trump Presidency….
Being that there are close to sixty Mondays in a year this should surprise nobody.
Liberals are sure ruining the curve of this study -they are at about 400 days right now
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/drinking-alcohol-key-living-90-article-1.3829634
60, that’s it?! Lucky bastards, send some of that good luck my way!
Study finds that Democrats have 365 bad days annually for three years, and then 366 bad days during each fourth year.
My wife is 5 times the average person!
“The numbers don’t lie: 95 percent of those surveyed said that a stressful day could be made less difficult by spending some time at the gym.”
Nothing in this report about the percentage of those surveyed who said that a stressful day could be made less difficult by spending more time having secks. Seems like it might help.
Just wonderin’.
TRY 360 MOTHAFUCKA
Notice that “leftists” never demand open borders, ‘diversity or mass immigration into any non white population anywhere.
Why is that? What is their real goal?
Thats why we talk about Anti White.
Thats why we talk about White Geno cide
“Researchers at Freeletics, a personal fitness and nutrition app……………….”
“According to the researchers, exercise may be the best way to deal with stress, as it provides both mental and physical benefits.”
I am shocked that a study by a personal fitness app found that exercise is the best way to deal with stress. A similar study by Ben n Jerry’s found that eating ice cream was the best way to deal with stress.
Well… It is down from 365 days a year just a hundred years ago. Just ask yer Dust Bowl relatives: Wimpy is as wimpy does (I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today). “Stress” is so absolutely relative SMH. So is the idea that we should have a stress-free life? Well, just take out 50 years worth of college loans and camp out in the safe spaces. I hear they have playdough there. As a child I learned that if you eat a gram of playdough everyday, and bite yer fingernails to the bone, pretty soon comes graduation day… Whoa Mama! REALLY REAL LIFE! Dang. In the end, it is all just sideways lessons to teach us how to take our last breath. You learn it or you don’t.
Where the hell are they getting this? I have about 3 or 4 bad days a year. The rest are glorious!
I don’t keep count one way or another. That would be pathological.
Just what I need, another f*n calendar.
60? SIXTY?
I’m about 10 ahead, anyone need catching up???
Only 60?
I knew I was way above average.
I wonder if Strzok and Page were part of this study?
Butthurt liberals are having 365 x 8 bad days (at a minimum).
Only 60? I wish.
Define “bad day”.
For one, millions of snowflakes during the November 2017 election night!
Oh, and probably for every day the following month!
60 days a year is about 5 days per month. They should do another study and find out if the males “bad days” coincide with the females, uhh … bad 5 days.
FIRST question off my lips when I get to heaven: ” LORD, when you made woman, WHAT were you THINKING?”
Imagine what she might say😉
God, MY God, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob is NOT a woman, not sure what god YOU worship
Oh, you worship the same god the muslims worship. They don’t respect their women much either. Interesting.
Relax. You take me too seriously.
The study only included females which accounts for the 5 bloody days, chap.
I have 365 bad days a year.
Boo hoo, poor you.
Snowflakes melt, become water and are then able to flush an Obama. So they do have a purpose.
LOL, then I must be ABOVE average, as almost EVERY day is a bad day, having to deal with the public.
I’ve not had a bad day since Jan 20, 2017 after eight straight years of daily misery….
LOL, divorce, I take it…………..
Self abort. Problem solved
I have 62.5 but that’s just me. Then I take a Midol and I’m ok.
Wow! I can honestly say that I have had only 1 or 2 bad days my entire life. That was when my mother passed. I guess it is all ones perspective.
What on earth is a “bad day”?
Any day that you go home and/or wake up alive is a “good day”
Apparently, the Democrats are having 305 bad days + the 60.
And from 2008 2016, that would of be over 2900 bad days.
Awwwe.
Poor widdle millennials have bad days.
What a tragedy.
Seem like liberals losers have had way more than 60, just by watching how they act and talk on tv.
What does no the kill you only makes you stronger. People need stress; it can be a driving force or it can build character. It will toughen you up for those devastating days that we all face.
Geez, I think I had 60 bad days today alone.