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The study delves into the intricacies of the relationship between regular physical exercise, self- esteem and stress levels. The research objectives was to determine the association between regular physical exercise, stress levels and self- esteem and the sample that was taken was of 105 consisting of all the individuals between the ages of 18- 24 who exercised atleast three or more times in a week. The results of the study revealed, on the basis of the correlational analysis it was revealed that between the variables of physical exercise and stress levels it had r= -0.137 and this basically indicates that as a negative correlation , it basically shows that as exercise increases, stress lowers down but since it does not offer any significant relationship which implies it is statistically insignificant and it also implies that there may be a relationship but since the sample size was small , it didn't get detected. The relationship between regular physical exercise and self- esteem reveals an insignificant relationship which is a positive relationship and r = 0.098 which implies as exercise increases so does the self - esteem levels but since this is an insignificant relationship and does not show a very strong relationship and we reject the alternative hypothesis proposed earlier. On the other hand, it was found that stress and self-esteem were negatively correlated with r being -0.498 indicating a significant relationship which shows that if high stress was associated with low self-esteem. Some of the limitations of this study included not including a sufficient amount of HEPA Active people who did vigorous exercise for 1500 MET per week. The second limitation of the study was not taking other factors such as individual differences in coping strategies, social support networks etcetera.