Researchers have speculated that your exercise routine may be easier to stick to if it fits your personality.
Click Here!According to Live Science:
"Decades of psychological research have boiled down human personality to five different components: conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience."
Here are their suggestions for an exercise routine based on the most dominant part of your personality.
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Highly conscientious—then you may have a leg up already. Take advantage of your innate stick-to-itiveness and drive to follow the rules. Solo activities tend to work well since you don't have to coordinate your schedule with others. Click Here!
- Non-committal—More impulsive people who tend to avoid planning and don't like making promises may improve their chances of success by writing down their exercise plan in detail, including the when and where.
Focusing on activities that give you "a buzz or high," can also help to make you stick to your regimen. Examples include sprinting such as Peak 8, and contact sports. Breaking down a large goal into smaller, more manageable chunks with deadlines in the near future will also be helpful, especially if your attention span is short. - Extroverted—So-called "people persons" can feel bereft when having to exercise all by their lonesome, so if you're very outgoing, consider joining a fitness class or taking up a team sport to keep you going.
- Introverted and/or highly agreeable—These personality types may be uncomfortable with highly competitive and aggressive activities. Better alternatives include yoga—either at home by yourself or in a class setting—and golf. Click Here! Click Here!
- Worried/Anxious—Those who find it hard to relax can find a great friend in exercise, as exercising is a fantastic tool for releasing anxiety, and providing stress relief and emotional stability. If you fall into this category, I highly recommend including this benefit in your written goals (see below), and use that as a motivating force to get you going.
- Adventurous—Those who are open to new experiences tend to be happiest when their fitness routine takes them outdoors. Running, cycling or walking are all great options. You can also easily incorporate Peak 8 exercises outdoors by sprinting instead of jogging, for example. Taking different routes can quench your need for variety, keeping each workout fresh.
In related fitness news, several recent studies have found that when athletes completely cease training, they rapidly lose strength and endurance. Being completely inactive, even for a short period of time, de-tones muscles and compromises health.
Click Here!However, these same studies also found that relatively small amounts of activity allowed the athletes to maintain much of the health and fitness they had previously gained. If they just cut back to one weight-training session and two endurance workouts per week, they lost only half as much aerobic power as those who stopped exercising altogether.
In fact, according to the New York Times:
"Even more relevant to those of us who aren't world-class athletes ... a study just published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise suggests that visiting the gym only once a week may be enough for young and older athletes to hold onto past strength gains ...Click Here!
There are caveats to these encouraging findings, of course. You must have a baseline level of fitness to maintain, for one thing ... If you have no fitness base, resolve now to build one."
In addition, it's well known that exercise results in cardiovascular benefits. But until quite recently, scientists understood very little about how physical activity actually influences your heart.
Click Here!A new study now offers some of the first molecular-level insights.
The research suggests that exercise turns on a genetic program that leads your heart to grow as heart muscle cells divide. This means that there may be ways to optimize training regimens so that they tap into this natural mechanism more efficiently.
Eurekalert reports:
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"That finding is key given that there is little prior evidence showing that the increase in heart size with exercise has direct benefits, the researchers say. The new evidence also gives important biological insights into the heart's potential for regeneration of muscle."
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