Exercise Addiction

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23 November 2008

Exercise Addiction

Introduction

Exercise addition is rare , but real (Women Fitness . Among those who are actively involved in sports , 1 percent tends to overestimate the meaning and the significance of exercises in their lives (Women Fitness . Research suggests that for some people , exercise can become compulsive , to a degree which is as physically , psychologically and emotionally destructive as ingesting chemicals (Addictions . As a result , previously positive and useful exercises turn into a real psychological addiction , which inevitably

produces numerous adverse effects on the quality of human physiological and psychological performance

Psychology holds various ideas about the nature of human addiction Traditionally , the term addiction ' is related to drugs or some other types of pharmaceutical products , which lead to repeated ingestion and change human perceptions about reality . However , Mathers and Walker suggest that the ideas about human addictions gradually change , and now broad characteristics of drug addiction are identified in a range of behavior patterns that do not involve drugs (125 . Exercise addiction is the bright example of psychological dis , which does not involve drugs . Individuals with exercise diss are overwhelmingly involved into various types of physical activity : they will skip other social activities , including school , work , entertainment , etc , for the sake of exercise . Since 1976 when the term exercise addiction ' was coined by Dr . William Glazer exercise addicts are diagnosed with low moods when they can 't train . [ .] With a negative addiction , the exercise overrides everything . Relationships and...