Confirm your exercises with your personality may make exercise more enjoyable and give you better results

But what if the exercise is more fun? One way to achieve this can choose the types of exercises that suit our characters. To this end, researchers in the UK now examined how the character affects the types of exercise that we prefer, our commitment and our participation in them. The results were published in Borders in psychology.

“We have found that our personality can affect how to deal with exercise, especially forms of exercise that we enjoy more than others,” said the first author, Dr. Flaminia Ronca of the Institute of Sports, Exercises and Health at the University of College University (UCL), especially forms of exercises, exercises and health.

“It is possible that the understanding of the personality factors in designing physical activity programs and the recommendation is very important in determining the success of the program, and whether people will adhere to it and become tried,” Professor Paul Borgis of the Institute of Knowledge Neuroscience added.

Various sports for different people

The researchers recruited the participants who attended the laboratory test for the basic fitness. Then they divided them into two groups; The first group was provided with a fitness plan at home for eight weeks consisting of training in cycling and strength (intervention group), the other group continued its usual lifestyle (control group). During the laboratory test, the first intervention week completed, and after intervention, all the participants completed a questionnaire about how much they enjoyed each training session. The characteristics of the character that were examined in the study included diastole, conscience, compatibility, nervousness and openness.

“Our brains are wireless in different ways, which drive our behaviors and how we interact with our environment,” Ronka explained. “So it is not surprising that the character also affects how the severity of the various exercise responds.”

For example, people who record in diastole have high -density sessions with others, including group sports. On the contrary, people who are registered in the bone are preferred over nervous exercises. While it is fine with high intensity, it needs short break between. Others, who have registered a high degree of awareness and openness to engage in exercise, were found regardless of whether they enjoyed in particular or were driven by curiosity, respectively.

Stress is lower

The researchers said that what was particularly interesting was the relationship between personality, change in fitness and tension. Before intervention, the levels of tension for both groups were similar. However, after intervention, people who recorded high nervousness showed a strong decrease in stress. “It is great news, as it highlights that those who benefit more than low stress respond well to exercise.”

The researchers pointed out that the most important part of exercising is to find something that we enjoy and not frustrate if we do not find it immediately. “It is okay if we don’t enjoy a specific session,” said Ronka. “We can try something else.”

Borges concluded that “we hope that people can find physical activities they enjoy, they will easily choose to do it.” “After all, we do not have to deal with dogs to go on a picnic: to be so physically inactive that we start to feel misery might be a strange human thing. In fact, our body punished us by making us miserable. But for some reasons, many of us seem to be poor in capturing these messages, it is sent to our brain.”