Effects of being addicted to exercise
What happens when you exercise too much?
Doing adequate exercise is healthy, but when a person gets obsessed with exercise, it becomes a disease. It is has multiple names – exercise addiction, exercise dependence, compulsive athleticism and exercise abuse.
This addiction will affect your career, family and other social engagements. Addiction to exercise is both physically and psychosocially damaging.
Those who are obsessed to exercising may have their own motivations. They feel a ‘high’ from doing exercise. It makes them feel they can adequately control their body weight and keep it in shape. They will do exercise even if they are injured or sick. They usually exercise alone to avoid any silly comments from others. They miss important arrangements, workplace, school, college and other social gatherings.
Recent studies have shown that, exercise addiction is also associated with other psychological disorders like bulimia nervosa. They become a serious patient of chronic fatigue syndrome. Long standing patients of exercise addiction suffer from stress fracture of long bones.
They are also a strong contender of nutritional disorders like protein deficiency, avitaminosis and others.
As they continue doing exercise even when injured, it calls for an immediate medical attention. They don’t feel like going to the doctors as they fear they will be banned doing exercise.