Addicted to Exercising and Working Out
Exercising can provide a significant mood boost to most people. As soon as a person gets used to exercising, his body chemicals change, and as a result, his pain endurance becomes higher, and his mood improves.
Because physical pain and emotional pain are directly connected, the person who exercises regularly experiences less emotional distress.
Because of all of these benefits, a person might become addicted to exercising, But this is not the type of addiction I am talking about today. I am instead talking about the situation where people get addicted to exercising for psychological reasons.
Exercising addiction might not be a bad habit, but understanding it more and knowing the reasons behind it will help you prevent this addiction from controlling your life and affecting other areas in it.
When exercising addiction takes over someone, it results in letting him sacrifice his time for the sake of exercising while ignoring lots of other essential activities like socializing or even spending time with his wife.
As a general rule, people spend more time doing something when they feel that they didn’t get all that they want out of it.
Addiction and unmet needs
The workaholic who works for 12 hours each day is a person who didn’t achieve all of his career dreams yet, and that’s why he spends more than he is supposed to at work trying to make his dreams come true.
The popular guy who is addicted to socializing is a person who has unmet social needs that he didn’t fulfill yet, even though he appears to be very popular.
You probably got addicted to exercising back to exercising because you didn’t achieve all of the goals you wanted to reach through exercise. Maybe you want to grow bigger, you want to look better, or perhaps your six-packs aren’t as the ones that were in your dreams.
Addiction and knowing your direction
The good news here is that this kind of addiction is healthy because it’s the opposite of being helpless. You are motivated to exercise to the extent that you became addicted to it, and this shows that you believe that you can reach your goals by spending more time in the gym.
If you had no clue about what you should do to change your body shape, you would have felt helpless, then indifferent, then depressed, but because you knew the solution, you just became addicted to it.
If I were you, I would focus on making my training much more useful to achieve the same results in less time. Get the help of a professional trainer or even use online videos, and as soon as you feel satisfied with your progress, your addiction will ease.
