Exercise Does It Affect How We See Ourselves?

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Even if you’re not the right shape that you would like to be, and you are exercising does it actually affect the way you see yourself mentally?. In the news today some researchers seem to think so.

What they say is even if you do some exercise you convince yourself that you look better even if nothing has changed from a physical perspective.

Also they say that we cannot tend to feel any better about ourselves the more we do in other words we get used to what we are doing, perhaps because we want to look shapelier, quicker this is one of the downfalls of our instant gratification society that we live in these days

The researchers claim that when we have worked out, we can tend to think that we look fitter. Even though we may not have done enough in our exercise routine to justify doing so.

Professor Heather Hausenblas who conducted the research said that;

“You would think that if you become more fit you would experience greater improvements in terms of body image, but that’s not what we found ”

“It may be that the requirements to receive the psychological benefits of exercise, including those relating to body image, differ substantially from the physical benefits”

It’s it’s a well-known fact what the physical benefits of exercise, but there is another aspect which we probably don’t think about sometimes which is the psychological aspect of it. When were not particularly happy with our own body image certain addictions can come to the surface, like smoking, drinking, overeating etc.

When the results came back from the study they found that people thought no different of their body image who exercised five days a week for 30 minutes.

How we see ourselves these days can start at a very young age as young as five years of age and this can be in both men and women. Can you relate to this at all yourself how do you feel after your workout? does it affect how you see yourself. Or do you just feel fitter mentally as in exhilarated.

Or have you just lost quite a lot of weight and do you like your new body image? be interesting to see what people say about this and if it relates to you at all.

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