Workout addiction.....Is it possible?

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  • adross3
    adross3 Posts: 606 Member
    Working out is not an addiction, it is an compulsion. Your past resinates emotionally and compels you to go to work out for a better tomorrow.
  • Valtishia
    Valtishia Posts: 811 Member
    I'm a total addict too.... but the way I see it is there are much worse things I could be addicted to. As long as you aren't overdoing it to the point of injury, I don't see an issue.
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    Working out is not an addiction, it is an compulsion. Your past resinates emotionally and compels you to go to work out for a better tomorrow.
    YES!!! I agree!!!!
  • fisherlassie
    fisherlassie Posts: 542 Member
    I exercise every day unless I am sick but I don't think I push it as much as some people and as long as it feels good I'm going to do it!
  • ReverendJim
    ReverendJim Posts: 260 Member
    I think I am addicted, but I don't go to the gym. I have the equipment in a grand room at the house, but I'm there all the time ...
  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
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  • adross3
    adross3 Posts: 606 Member
    Some compulsions are good and some are bad. Why change a good compulsion? If your not compelled then you must have a desire. Your desire may come when you have had enough of your current situation. The key to the door of your new desire is what you do right "NOW".
  • M3CH4N1C
    M3CH4N1C Posts: 157
    Humans can become addicted to anything. For examples people become addicted to gambling, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sex, porn, shopping, texting, eating, you name it. Addiction is a manifestation of stress. Stress is energy. Energy cannot be destroyed, but only changed. Find out what is the cause of stress in your life perhaps and maybe you will get somewhere as to what else you can do to resolve this energy, besides working out. I'll tell you. Working out is a good way to sublimate stress energy, as is art, or hobbies. But I tell you. If you don't find exactly what causes the stress in your life, then it will always be there. And if, lets say, you couldn't work out for what ever reason, be it injury or whatever. Something causes you to stop working out. That stress energy that was sublimated into fitness will try to make its way into something else. Hopefully into art or a healthy hobby, because that stress can also manifest into any of the addictions said above, in which are self destructive in every way.
  • adross3
    adross3 Posts: 606 Member
    GAMBLING is not an addiction. It is an obsessive compulsive disorder. There is a total difference from addiction and a compulsive disorder.
  • fordbrittney88
    fordbrittney88 Posts: 3
    man, i wish i was addicted to working out lol
  • camillehardeman
    camillehardeman Posts: 46
    That is exactly how I feel! I'm at a very healthy weight and relatively fit but I am obsessed with working out and I always find something I could be working on! I don't take rest days (I know, bad) but I do keep 1 or 2 days of my workouts lower impact (working in more yoga and long walks). I'm addicted to working out! But as of yet it isn't a problem :)
  • mcrowe1016
    mcrowe1016 Posts: 647 Member
    MTV and a True Life episode about workout addiction...
  • annabellj
    annabellj Posts: 1,337 Member
    you start coming to the gym with me... ull see results so quick it becomes like crack because u can correct every single thing on your body! its like your body is a unfinished statue and you are the artist!
    im so there! i have that addiction too! but need to tone up a lot!
  • M3CH4N1C
    M3CH4N1C Posts: 157
    GAMBLING is not an addiction. It is an obsessive compulsive disorder. There is a total difference from addiction and a compulsive disorder.

    What difference is there between addiction and O.C.D. ?
  • RahBuhBuh
    RahBuhBuh Posts: 585 Member
    I'm for sure addicted. If I miss a day that I am supposed to work out, it kinda makes the day rotten.
  • EuroDriver12
    EuroDriver12 Posts: 805 Member
    Everyones welcome! It will be a party!

    Email me ur resumes and i will interview and select my next training partner! :-P
  • thunderlight7
    thunderlight7 Posts: 72
    Thanks for response, everyone. Really helped. I'll keep it moving.
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